ITunes Rentals Arrive in Canada, UK With 48-hour Time Limit

Apple's newly announced movie rental service for its iTunes offerings in Canada and the United Kingdom may come several months after the same service debuted in the United States. But the Canadian and British versions of movie rentals do carry one substantial difference--customers in those markets will have 48 hours to finish a movie once they start watching it. That's twice as long as U.S. customers have.

Mac OS X 10.6 to show at Apple developer event, drop PowerPC

While everyone focuses on the iPhone next update, a new rumor posits that Apple will already have a new version of Mac OS X available for testing in early form at WWDC, with its actual launch appearing as early as next year's Macworld event.

Mark Overmars is currently seeking help for an animation experiment conducted by his research group at the Utrecht University.

According to a post by Mark on the GMC:
"One of the topics we study is how to create walking animations out of short recorded motions of real people. The main problem here is to blend the motion segments to create realistically looking total motions. It is difficult to establish what "realistic" means here."

In total there are 43 questions (separated into 2 parts) in the survey which involve viewing animations and rating how realistic they appear.

Ich bin seit langem Anhänger der Theorie, dass bestimmte Personen des öffentlichen Lebens durch Hologramme ersetzt worden sind, Keith Richards, Angela Merkel und der stellvertretende Vorsitzende meines Gartenvereins sind die besten Beispiele dafür.

Nie hätte ich gedacht, dass uns ein Einblick in die dahinter stehende Technik gewährt würde. Bill the Blue Screen Gates hat uns -kurz vor seinem Rückzug in die vollständige Wohltätigkeit den Gefallen getan - zumindest in die Windows-Variante der Technik.

Dokładnie 31 lat temu, 5 czerwca 1977, do sprzedaży w Stanach Zjednoczonych wszedł komputer Apple II. Ze swoim procesorem MOS Technology 6502, taktowanym na 1 MHz, czterema kilobajtami RAMu, wbudowanym w ROM językiem Integer BASIC oraz interfejsem magnetofonowym, był on dumnym następcą Apple I, który poprzedniego roku zdobył serca komputerowych gików w całej Ameryce.

Kosztował ponad 1200 dolarów, w podstawowej wersji obsługiwał jedynie monochromatyczny tryb tekstowy bez małych liter, a jego interpreter języka BASIC nie potrafił wykonywać działań na liczbach zmiennoprzecinkowych. Miał jednak niespotykane dotąd możlwości rozbudowy, był prosty w obsłudze i... ładny.

VLC en su version de escirtorio es un reproductor multiplataforma q reproduce un sin fin de formatos de audio y video... ZodTTD el autor de gpsphone, gameboy4iphone, genesis5iphone, snes4iphone y todos esos emuladores nos lo ha traido para el iphone:

Aqui en sus palabras:

What is vlc4iphone capable of? At the moment it may be limited by only a small handfull of decoders, but soon that list will grow! It currently allows you to drag and drop the following popular media formats onto your iPhone/iPod Touch for playback: MPEG / MPG,AVI,MP3.
It also supports some lesser known media formats.

Soon it will play: FLAC,OGG
I am also researching playback of: VCD,DivX,WMA,WMV

The WWDC '08 (World Wide Developers Conference 2008 )  will be commencing this Monday the 9th of June. The 3G iPhone will be coming out, and possibly the new MacBooks.

Here's something for you 16 year olds who love developing:

"There is a 16 year old who did something totally remarkable. More like got something remarkable.
This boy has been privately invited by Steve Jobs to go to the
WWDC 2008 FREE and will get a first class ticket and a private meeting with Steve Jobs himself."

During the WWDC, Apple will post podcasts on iTunes FREE of charge! Also, when Apple does this, anyone will be able to download this as long as they have an internet connection

Now, with every non-refurbrished Mac you buy, you will recieve an all expenses paid iPod Touch (only for Students) Of course the only downfall is the refurbrished... and Apple will NOT send an iPod Touch if you buy a Mac Mini.

If you buy a $1200 iMac, you will ecieve a $300 iPod touch. What Apple is trying to do is make you buy an iMac or MacBook (Cheapest one) for 25% off, then buy an iPod Touch. For example:

i got an iMac with the promotion and recieved an iPod Touch with it.

The iMac was $1200 with the iPod Touch. This means that the overall price for each would be:

iMac- $900

iPod- 300 as usual!

REMEMBER: THIS IS FOR STUDENTS ONLY

You'll recall that I said the following when Bell Canada came out with their half assed video store:

"I’m going to sit back and watch this service get utterly destroyed by the Apple iTunes service as it’s clear that Bell doesn’t have a clue needed to think this through a bit more before rolling this out to the public."