Winscape: Apple-powered fake windows
Just in time for the weekend, here’s a technology that’s arrived before its time, I think. Winscape is a set of two plasma televisions set up behind window panes, and hooked up to a Mac Pro. The Pro is running the custom Winscape software, which controls the “view” out of the windows according to a sensor (they show it in the video above attached to a baby, and it actually looks really large and pretty unwieldy). So as the sensor moves around the room, the view changes, as if you were moving angles while looking out of the windows to get a different view.
link from Tom Bacon DVMUG
Pad DRM endangers our rights
Mr. Jobs,
DRM will give Apple and their corporate partners the power to disable features, block competing products (especially free software) censor news, and even delete books, videos, or news stories from users’ computers without notice– using the device’s “always on” network connection.
This past year, we have seen how human rights and democracy protestors can have the technology they use turned against them. By making a computer where every application is under total, centralized control, Apple is endangering freedom to increase profits.
Apple can say they will not abuse this power, but their record of App Store rejections and removals gives us no reason to trust them. The iPad’s unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for media distribution. We demand that Apple remove all DRM from its devices.
We Want our iPad rights NOW
MacBook Pros UPDATED!!! — Finally
7:45 am, April 13th, 2010, Leigh McMullen
As we reported eariler the Apple Store was closed this morning when I went for my ‘O-Dark-Thirty’ run, and as anticipated, we’ve got new i5 and i7 Macbook Pros to enjoy. I will be picking one up today if possible and will give a full rundown later in the week for an in-depth hands on.
Pricing looks great too, with $200 off the 17″ model. The 17″ configured as I’d buy it with an i7, is just $200 more (or in other words back to the original pricing).
Better & faster always appreciated
Expose_and_Spaces1/2: How often do you use Spaces?
Regularly – it’s essential! 900 (37.56%)
Quite often – many times a day 246 (10.27%)
A few times a week 171 (7.14%)
Rarely 290 (12.10%)
Never 789 (32.93%)
2/2: How often do you use Exposé?
Regularly – it’s essential! 1,111 (46.37%)
Quite often – many times a day 452 (18.86%)
A few times a week 314 (13.11%)
Rarely 326 (13.61%)
Never 193 (8.06%)
use it or don’t
