Shane Beales - Living Genius

A chap I know, Shane Beales, is a flipping musical genius. You can sign up to "Project 52" for £20, and you'll get 52 songs, 1 per week. Each one is a flipping gem! Rather than buying some pap for £15, and enjoying 1 out of the 15 tracks, why not spend £20 and enjoy all the tracks? (even if you don't enjoy most of the tracks, with 52 tracks, you've got a VERY good chance of finding 15-20 tracks you absolutely love!). There are 2 free songs to give you an idea of his music style...

MacBook Pro is "Bitchin"

"In regards to the recent 17-inch MacBook Pro's release, Jobs let everyone know, "Everyone wants a MacBook Pro because they are so bitchin’." Thanks for that, Steve. Jobs also mentioned the possible demise of the CRT in their lineup, due to environmental concerns and their general lack of bitchin-ness."

Quote from Engadget, Steve Jobs at MacWorld. Also in these articles Steve Jobs says Media Center Apple should be soon.

Atari UK promotion...

When I first read this, I thought it was talking about an Atari branded laptop... unfortunately it's just a Rockdirect laptop with some Dungeons and Dragons graphics on it, used to promote Atari's new computer game... perhaps one day Atari will produce Atari branded hardware again...?

New ultra efficient car...

157mpg deisel engine car pictures on the site - super aerodynamic.

Intel Core Duo (2.16ghz overclocked to 3.4ghz) beats overclocked P4 at 7.2ghz link.

Waller Seti Effort Stats

With lovely pie charts, graphs, and figures. Link. Team's world rank is no. 780 - pretty impressive!

2 seater mini

mini with only 2 seats. Wonderful.

Apple - MacBook Pro 17"

Apple - MacBook Pro 17" Released Only £1999.

map of the internet!

funny pic: here.. would be fun to see how other people see the internet.

150 Mac Minis and a Tour Round Microsoft Mac Division

They have 150 Mac Minis, and use KVMs, and Apple Remote Desktop to remote control them, using Apple's 30" screen, they can monitor 50 Mac Mini's at a time. (Pictured). For testing purposes they keep every single Apple Mac revision every released. This tour shows you heaps of pictures of it and it's a great read! (hmmm blogger image uploading doesn't seem to work with opera...)

Other Tech related stuff: Earth Day today - how to recycle your computer, and another link - how to recycle your computer. New Linux PC only costs $146 (AMD 400 mhz/800mhz Godson 2C processor, a 40-gigabyte hard drive, and 256 MB of RAM and running a Linux variant called the Thinix OS.). Rumour that next major Mac OS X will let you run Windows Apps natively in OS X. Intel Core Duo tested, results say It's the best CPU ever!.

Windows Updates Gone Wrong - You may have noticed loads of Windows updates recently, apparently they are bad... they are to do with Internet Explorer, and can break it's ability to work with add-ons, such as videos in windows etc - in my case, IE will crash after watching a video. Well, you can undo the damage Windows updates have done, with this patch here.

intel iMac - a bit like a laptop

Unsurprisingly (but possibly worth knowing), an intel-apple that can run windows software runs windows (application) software at about the speed of an intel-laptop by dell or similar. see here (Macworld.com). Note how these aren't game tests, also note that the laptop is better than the desktop.
Now see here for some game tests. Looks like the graphics card in the iMac is pretty good too, beating nVidia GeForce 6600 in Far Cry. whatever that means.

On a slightly related topic.. assuming you were waiting for Photoshop to be re-released for Mac OS X on intel, wouldn't it make sense for many people to make the switch and go to using the windows pc version full time.. The last copy of Photoshop we have comes with an either OS installer CD, so would work fine on the PC.

The Smudge of Ashen Fluff: Sia - Breathe Me video

The Smudge of Ashen Fluff: Sia - Breathe Me video - "an amazing clip created with 2,500 Polaroids, proverbially making this video worth 2,500,000 words."

The Great Giant Creme Egg Petition Petition

The Great Giant Creme Egg Petition Petition

Lenovo Droping IBM Faster Than Expected

You know how Lenovo (big Chinese PC manufacturer) went and bought IBM's PC division - well they've been releasing new IBM branded and Lenovo branded laptops for a while now... and foolishly they are going to drop the IBM name from there products... How stupid can you get? IBMs are well known to produce good laptops year after year after year, in fact, if you buy an old laptop, then a very good choice, is an old IBM laptop... getting rid of the IBM thinkpad series will give Lenovo less brand recognition than companies like Acer and ASUS, (Acer and ASUS produce decent OEM (no-name) style laptops that are generally reliable, as they tend to manufacture stuff for everybody else, including Apple). So when the IBM Thinkpad brand is gone, who will be left with a good name in the laptop market? Toshiba and Dell from the looks of things...

read more | digg story (updated link)

Help me become a switcher!

I love the name of this blog: Make me switch. This guy wants to get a mac, but he's broke, therefore he figures that the 1 billion people on the internet must have enough spare change to give him enough money to buy a mac. Why oh why didn't I think of this? Oh yeah, I forgot, I am happy in my PC world. I like the bare faced cheek of this guy and can see him being successful (assuming paypal don't steal his money).

weird picture

weird picture (worksafe!) here. I hadn't seen this one before.

America to attack Iran?

New York Times Article suggesting that America are likely to use Nuclear weapons in order to disable Iran's nuclear power, and other military, and chemical targets.

Gospel of Judas?

Apparently it's surfaced after 1,700 years. Quite interesting stuff.

"For that reason, the discoveries have proved deeply troubling for many believers. The Gospel of Judas portrays Judas Iscariot not as a betrayer of Jesus, but as his most favored disciple and willing collaborator."

Deeply troubling? I don't think it really matters how Jesus was betrayed, Judas was chosen with God knowing that Judas would betry Him - because Jesus needed someone to betray Him, whether Judas was asked to or not, how does it matter?

"At least one scholar said the new manuscript does not contain anything dramatic that would change or undermine traditional understanding of the Bible."

If anything, these historic documents simply add more proof and evidence of Jesus' existance - just like historic books treat historic records of Ceasar as fact.

Comment from Digg: "There is no claim that this work was actually written by Judas. That is part of the point the theologians are making, namely, that this and other gnostic works show that early Christianity and its precepts were debated even as early as 200 AD. That doesn't mean that the events that are recorded actually occurred."

Apple - Boot Camp

Apple - Boot Camp - Apple now let you install Windows on Intel Macs.

30years of Apple, Pursuit Force

Engadget have put up a list of the good, bad and ugly from Apple over the last 30 years. Good read.

And if you're into car games, then this looks very cool! Pursuit Force. It's like a modern day Chase HQ.

Gone Digital Yet?

What digital camera do you own? If you don't have one, then check this out: 4mp, 3x optical zoom £36. If you have one but want to upgrade to a brand new, latest model, then have a look at these: £109 white, £99 silver (exc vat + post) - Sanyo 6mp, 3x optical zoom, 3" screen - Sanyo make digicams for 3 of the top brand manufacturers!