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“I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.“ – Mitch Hedberg
Gareth started this week with a bug he’s uncovered in the Apple TV 3.0 firmware update. And I chipped in with a tale of woe, about my newish Seagate external HD. It’s the second one and it’s dead, it is no more, and it’s going back to Amazon. Then we touched on Blu-ray, specifically the new ‘managed copy’ system the studios are allowing us honest consumers. They’re far to good to us, after all we should just be sending them all our money, just because they’re such nice people. Not.
Then I kicked off the stories proper…
Apple touting $30 a month TV subscription – For Apple TV and iTunes, at least. No details yet, but Cupertino are asking the networks if they’d be interested. I’m so glad that Steve has a hobby to keep him busy.
iPhone nano rumour just won’t die – It’ll be here in 2010, on Verizon. Or not. I just don’t know, it seems very un-Apple like to mess with a formula that has worked so well up till now. But who knows, maybe Apple are really scared of the the iPhone killer that is….’Pixi’. Ha bet you thought I was going to say ‘Droid’ then, didn’t you.
Windows 7 blocks the iPhone – There that’s the scary headline out of the way, now for the real story. It seems a certain Intel chipset (P55) is causing sync problems for the iPhone when afore mentioned chipset is running Windows 7. A bios upgrade is required to get things playing nice again. But that all depends on your PC / motherboard manufacturer, so ask nice, and they might just be bothered.
Beatles release an Apple, before Apple release The Beatles – An apple shaped, MP3 including, novelty collection of the 14 recently remastered albums. All contained within a USB memory stick core. So the Fab Four are available in electronic form, but still not on iTunes. Even Steve’s promise of payment in unicorn tears, hasn’t tempted the fabulously wealthy Beatles or their executors.
Shock as MP uses electronic device in Parliament – Those, over here, entrusted with our law making and future infrastructure, are ‘to be discouraged’ from joining the 21st century. The Speaker does not want electronic devices to be used in the Commons. Of course, if MP’s are active users of the Internet and electronic media they might understand the problems we ordinary consumers face. The powers that be, wouldn’t want that, would they.
Create your own Bluetooth ‘Star Trek’ communicator – No matter what anyone one does to Bluetooth headsets, they will always be ugly and uncool. This on the other and is unquestionably cool, in a geeky kind of way. Unfortunately, thanks to the joy that is Voice control, “beam me up Scotty”, will just call the boss, not get you anywhere near the Enterprise.
