Yuck!

Does anyone actually like this thing?

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Apple - Mighty Mouse - Design

These sites are slick.  Lost Remote interviews Andrew Lindenauer, executive director of Viacom's Television Stations Digital Media Group about their new look & feel that is being rolled out to local CBS Owned & Operated news station sites across the nation.  Lookin' forward to CBS2.com & KCAL9.com getting the new look!  The flash player is actually pretty cool...just too bad it is flash.  heh

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Lost Remote: WCCO-TV launches redesigned site

This was exactly my first thought when Apple confirmed the switch to Intel.  While everyone else is getting all worked up about installing OS X on Intel-based hardware (HP, Dell etc)...I'm more excited about purchasing some sexy Apple hardware and installing Longhorn on it!

GO Jerome:

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Apple Shooting Themselves in the Foot - Longhorn on Apple Hardware, OS X only on Apple Hardware

So today is a monumental day in Apple history; Apple is moving to Intel hardware. As you all know, even though I have put behind my blissful days working as an Apple campus rep, I still keep Apple close to my heart. I do this partially because of the great technology and partially because of the great people that work there. Making the “switch” to working for Microsoft has been one of those decisions that I probably think about in my head way too often. Well today’s news is something I made noise about every day that I worked for Apple. Apple needed to move to Intel/AMD hardware. But after reading the news more carefully, it looks like Jobs and Co. still don’t get it. Apple has ZERO plans to run their flagship operating system, Mac OS X, on hardware made from any vendor except Apple. The future likelihood of Apple hardware running on the market shaking AMD Athlon 64s and Opterons looks grim. Mac OS X will only run on Apple hardware; however, if you continue reading, Windows has a good chance of running on Apple hardware. This is the shot Apple is blowing in their own foot.

If I can buy sexy Apple hardware and run Windows on that hardware to do everything that I need to do to get my work done, then bye bye Mac OS X. Millions of people around the world depend on Windows software and PC compatible hardware. Longhorn is amazing once the world sees it, and by Apple not allowing their operating system to run on anything except Mac hardware, they are closing the doors for mainstream application, driver, and most importantly mainstream market adoption. By not taking more than a baby step into the Intel market, Apple leaves their software divisions vulnerable to destruction. As a company driven by hardware sales, maybe that is what they want, but to me, a vision of Apple-proprietary Intel hardware is not a vision with legs for the future. I am disappointed that Apple is going into the Intel hardware market half assed, but at the same time I am happy (a false happiness like a storming army that wins a war without a single battle) because this is another major win for Microsoft. Mac OS X running on any PC compatible hardware system would have possibly provided strong competition for Longhorn with its existing library of applications and compatibility with Unix/Linux.

Consider this post me starting the campaign to ensure that Longhorn runs on Apple-Intel hardware (Longhorn will support Open Firmware booting if Apple-Intel hardware will continue using that standard). To Mr. Jobs, I hope this isn’t the first step towards ending the Mac software platform and becoming a consumer device company. It sure feels like it! Let’s just say that I have gone from excitement to disappointment very quickly.

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Details on what is new @ http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/preview/.  I'm not a quicktime fan but I'll take any opportunity to snag an improvement.  Any of you using it already?

No, not Ketracel White.

Check out the new Media Center model that HP is shipping.  I'm already seeing comments about how similar it is to Apple's Mac Mini and what not.

Please.

I have a feeling I'm going to be hearing these crying mac fanboys all summer long.  Look.  Apple doesn't have the corner on everything white/silver, or 32bit alpha-blended UIs.  There are only so many ways to cut a fish as my grandpa would say.

That said, anyone who has been watching HP's prototype machines over the last three years have seen this trend towards the white/silver motif...this is not a surprise.  In HP's collaborations with Microsoft on future hardware, nearly all of them have had a lot more white/silver than anything the major OEMs had put out until today.

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HPshopping.com - HP Media Center m7070n Photosmart PC

Another BetaNews piece.  TiVo is inserting ads overlaying your video while you fast forward through commercials.

An avid Windows XP Media Center Edition user, these reports make me hope for some fed-up TiVo users to make the jump to MCE.  All the same, developments like these do concern me as companies developing DVR software need to get the picture that throwing up your ad-banners in our face when we fast forward through commercials is not gonna fly.  Even more disturbing is the real-world experience with this new TiVo "feature"; the new ad-banners obscure too much of the video you are fast forwarding through, so users are missing cues to stop fast forwarding.

I plead Microsoft not to go this direction.  Leave such "features" to MSN TV if they are to be done at all.  Hopefully the negative blowback will nip any specs on this in Redmond in the bud.

Related:  Thomas Hawk was graciously given access to some of Jupiter Research's data on MCE.  He posted some of his own opinions based on what he read.  Good stuff.  Good times ahead for MCE if Microsoft can hit all these marks.

Related:  Check out this Windows Media Video preview of a potential upcoming feature in Windows Media Center; Smart Skip!  - Right click>>Save Target As to save.

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BetaNews | TiVo Begins Testing of 'Pop-Up' Ads

If you have Outlook and a bunch of new MSN Spaces RSS feeds; this may be the software trick for you.  Check out You Subscribe:RSS.  It will pull down RSS feeds like mine  .

I've been using My MSN but I can see as I am gaining more RSS feeds that a dedicated software app may be more useful.

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You Subcribe:RSS