The state of denial among the Microsoft faithful regarding Vista is almost enough to make me pity them.
Everyone’s favorite resident Microsoft “expert”, Mary Jo Foley, and her unlinking eye on Microsoft, poses a beauty of a question: Is Windows XP too good for Microsoft’s own good?
1 Comment | 
Uncategorized | Tagged: Microsoft, Software, Vista | 
Permalink
Posted by Tom
Apple released a slew of updates for the iLife apps yesterday. While iDVD, iPhoto, and GarageBand got mostly bug fixes and maybe new themes, iMovie got substantial and welcome improvements.
1 Comment | 
Uncategorized | Tagged: Apple, iLife, iMovie, Software | 
Permalink
Posted by Tom
Amazon opened their MP3 store today, and it’s clear iTunes has legitimate competition since Amazon avoids the pitfalls that made other music sites a joke. However, through it all some curious questions arise, which I’ll get to below. Meanwhile, here’s why this new site is a valid alternative to iTunes:
1 Comment | 
Uncategorized | Tagged: Amazon, DRM-free, iTunes, Media, Music, Universal | 
Permalink
Posted by Tom
You’ve had nothing to do with the success Apple enjoys today. For that matter, you practically had to be dragged kicking and screaming from Hewlett-Packard to help start Apple in the first place. You thought the IIc might be the best machine Apple ever made, and were not particularly behind the Mac.
2 Comments | General | Tagged: Apple | Permalink
Posted by Tom
In a previous post about Adobe and Apple, I mentioned that for all the money Adobe makes off the Mac they spend a lot of time ignoring it. Some examples I gave were:
1 Comment | Uncategorized | Tagged: iPhoto, Photography, Software | Permalink
Posted by Tom
Robert Scoble posts “An ode to great photographers” and what they taught him.
The ode itself is short and sweet, yet says everything that needs to be said because it’s primarily about the pictures. What better way to show what you’ve learned then by showing it? The post includes great shots taken by Scoble — including the one above — taken on an evening walk.
Very nice, Robert. Well done.
No Comments » | Uncategorized | Tagged: Photography | Permalink
Posted by Tom
The old song reference (and showing my age) aside, John Gruber of Daring Fireball wrote a comment today about Wil Shipley’s recent post about Apple.
1 Comment | General | Tagged: Apple, iPhone, Mac OS X, Software | Permalink
Posted by Tom
In the previous installment we went through a new Event of photos to delete the bad ones, rate the better ones, hide the questionable ones, and leave the rest alone. Then we assigned keywords to them.Now we’ll move to the more “fun” stuff. That is, we’re going to compare the rated photos and pick out the cream of the crop for further enhancing.
No Comments » | Uncategorized | Tagged: iPhoto, Photography, Software | Permalink
Posted by Tom
So Universal has teamed up with SpiralFrog on a subscription service with a twist; the service is now out of beta and officially launched. SpiralFrog is unique among subscription services in that it’s subscription-less (at least for now). No monthly fee is required, the site is intended to be funded solely by advertising and your recurring visits:
2 Comments | Uncategorized | Tagged: iPod, iTunes, Media, Music, Spiral Frog, Universal | Permalink
Posted by Tom
Adobe had a great quarter. Good for them. Their new CS3 products were very well-received and doing well.
However, the amazing iPhone doesn’t use Flash, so is that any concern? Not if you spin like this:
1 Comment | General | Tagged: iPhone, Software | Permalink
Posted by Tom
You are currently browsing the The Small Wave. weblog archives for September, 2007.
Subscribe To This Blog.
Contents of this blog licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, Share Alike 3.0 License.