So lastnight I installed the new version of wordpress for my blog. To my surprise, the backend is quite different but I’m getting used to the new changes. I also installed the wordpress iPhone app that I am writing this post on now. I must say it’s pretty straight forward without any advanced editing that I’ve found yet but it’s good for blogging on the go!
In the future, we may be saying goodbye to our favorite video console, whether that be the Nintendo, Playstation, or the Xbox. OnLive is a startup company that plans on releasing a new device that plugs into your computer or tv and replaces the console. Customers will no longer purchase copies of their favorite video game. Instead, all gameplay will be streamed over the internet - think Netflix. The games will be stored at OnLive’s server farm and your inputs will be sent to them. They say that the device can be upgraded so it will never become obsolete. Is this too good to be true? Will it catch on? We’ll have to wait and see!
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Dan Aykroyd is coming to Madison, WI on Wed March 25th to promote his new vodka, “Crystal Head”. The background of it as explained at crystalheadvodka.com is similar to the Indiana Jones theme. Dan is a long time believer in the supernatural and continues this trend with the stories of the Crystal Skulls found throughout the ages on our planet. Each one of these bottles costs $50 and is apparently “diamond filtered”, though I’m not sure what that does other than sound cool. Dan will be at the West side Woodman’s market from 4pm - 6pm signing the skulls.
In a phone interview Saturday from Minneapolis, Aykroyd said he is willing to sign other items, including “Blues Brothers” and “Ghost Busters” memorabilia, as long as fans arrive early, and understand his primary purpose is selling vodka.
“I’m gonna sign about 700 skulls this afternoon,” he said Saturday.
I may need to get my Ghostbusters t-shirt or pillowcase signed, hahaha.
MySpace has now teamed up with FotoFlexer and has photo editing tools directly on the site. That’s right! If you don’t have Photoshop available, you can do simple editing right on MySpace (cropping, resizing, remove red-eye, etc). So far it is only available to users in the U.S. but will be rolled out internationally soon.
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As reported by Brian Briggs at BBspot.com, The Twitter business model is finally changing. Up until now, Twitter was a free service that didn’t charge a penny. It didn’t even have ads on the site. Today they announced that is all changing. It’s been rumored for a while and now they are creating premium accounts in 4 tiered accounts. Though they will be keeping the basic free account as well. Since the article didn’t have any direct links to the confirmation, I’m wondering if it is a prank or not. What do you think?
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Months before the iPhone OS 3.0 is released to the masses, one entrepreneurial developer has managed to crack into the phone’s Internet tethering capabilities. Steve Troughton-Smith unearthed the iPhone’s tethering preferences pane, connected his iPhone to his Mac via USB, and was allowed to use the phone as a modem. Problem is, he has no idea how he did it. From Twitter, he says, “To all: I have no idea how I did it. Sorry! I was hacking around with APNs in the Carrier.bundle itcc file.”
Internet tethering was rumored to be a feature on OS 3.0, and during the iPhone OS 3.0 conference, Senior VP for iPhone Software Scott Forstall said the OS 3.0 supported Internet tethering. Despite the iPhone’s capability, tethering was never made into an option.
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Today was the big day. Apple announced the new iPhone OS software that will be released in summer, available now if you are a developer like me 
hehe.. The biggest downfall for me is that some features won’t be available with the original iPhone. More on that later. They will be available for free to iPhone users, but $9.95 for iPod touch users.
New features:
Push service - Applications will finally be able to run in the background! What does this mean? Basically you can close a program and go into another, and the first program will still be running. So for example if you have AIM running it will always send you your messages.
Cut and Paste - Finally! It’s here, you will be able to cut and paste between applications
MMS messaging! You will be able to send messages, gps locations, contact card, audio file, etc. Feature not available on original iPhone.
Universal Search - You can now search in emails, and through out other applications.
Map Support - Applications can now make use of Google maps and there will be turn by turn direction.
Peer to Peer - you can connect multiple iPhones together through wireless for data transfer or gameplay.
Stereo Bluetooth headsets - not supported by the original iPhone.
These are the main items that I am excited about, but there are plenty more!
Still no video recording, laptop tethering, or Flash support. Also no word on hardware upgrade.
I came across this hilarious little cartoon on boingboing tonight about what exactly the point of twitter is. I laughed quite a bit watching it.
What is Apple doing to their products? The past week, Apple released a new iPod Shuffle. They moved the controls to the headphone cable, which is a feature I like. However, people have found a mysterious little chip embeded in it that many people suggest is a DRM enabled chip. If this is true, you could only use Apple branded headphones with it. If any third party company created headphones for it that bypassed the chip, then under the DMCA from 1998, it would be considered breaking a digital lock and be illegal.
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Over at djsteen.com, he has a video up of Kevin Rose reporting that in Apple’s 3.0 release of the iPhone software, there will be cut and paste functionality in the new software release. There will not be new video features because of a technical problem with writing to the NAND memory. Though, it will have all of the features that the Palm Pre will have, that would have made it more attractable than the iPhone.
Chadwyk Krueger - Information Systems Processing Consultant, Apple fanboy, internetaholic
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