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Sep 7 2008

MacMerc.TV– Flip Mino

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to produce a new video podcast called MacMerc.TV. It’s not ready for you to subscribe to yet; we’re going to shoot a few more shows and get ahead before we start to release any. I’m posting this now because I wanted to give you this advance look to show you how it’s coming along and also because the subject of this edition, the Flip Mino MacMerc.TV Flip Mino, was released 2 months before I was able to test it and I wanted to get the show out to you before any more time lapsed.

MacMerc.TV will feature the kinds of segments that I used to do on The Lab with Leo Laporte: hardware and software product demos, tutorials, tips & tricks, etcetera. I hope to release a new video every month to start and ramp up production to eventually release a show every week. MacMerc.TV is being shot in HD and will be available in formats for iPod and AppleTV users. We’re also exploring options for hosting, so if you have any suggestions, please drop me an email.

Enjoy this episode and stay tuned for the official launch of MacMerc.TV!!

Note:If you make cool Mac-compatible hardware or software, we should talk.

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Oct 29 2007

Amazon.ca taking pre-orders for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

PREORDER Leopard%21%3F 20071029 183659 Amazon.ca taking pre orders for Mac OS X 10.5 LeopardYou read that right: Amazon.ca has announced that it’s taking pre-orders of a software title that was rather ceremoniously released last week. I don’t know if the folks at Amazon.ca (that’s .ca not .com) were asleep at the wheel or if they set the DeLorean’s time circuits to the wrong month, but the picture at right shows the email that arrived in my inbox this morning. Searches for Mac OS X 10.5 last week on Amazon.ca came up dry so it seems the Leopard rollout on Amazon’s Canadian page was a bit snafu’d. A better shot can be seen on my Flickr photostream.

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Sep 3 2007

Gear Live ”Leaked iPod Nano” pic has a weird background

nanopic 20070902 224950 Gear Live Leaked iPod Nano pic has a weird backgroundWhile I think the style of iPod nano depicted in the image posted at Gear Live is not out of the realm of possibility, the odd shape cut into the background of the image has me curious.

It’s kind of like that scene in The Princess Bride where Wallace Shawn as Vizzini tries to decide which goblet has been poisoned. On the one hand, Apple would never take a product shot that had such a hacked up background. But, on the other hand, no one who was trying to fake an Apple image would have stepped back from this image and said, “I am finished–this is a masterpiece.”

It does look as though the background above the top of the alleged nano has a cutout that approximates the size of the current nano when added to the unit in the picture. For that matter, why isn’t the top of the picture cropped a little tighter? There’s nothing but space where a regular old iPod nano used to be. Bad Photoshopping? I’m betting “yes”…but who knows?

I guess we’ll just have to wait until Wednesday when Steve announces whatever he has planned to announce and we’ll find out who is right… and who is dead…uhr…less right.

Note:How could something so wrong be so right?

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