My mate “bacon” has very proudly found Google’s stable build of Chrome for OS X. It is pretty good, i must say and faster than Safari! Probably, because it doesn’t need to load extensions and themes and whatever FireFox does.
Occasionally I buy/rent movies from iTunes, if I really want to see them there and then and think it’s worth forking out money for protected content. But a lot of movie connoisseurs don’t like iTunes because the audio quality is only stereo or Dolby Pro Logic (fake surround sound over two channels). But upon inspecting the content of a movie file, I’ve found an AC3 5.1 track in the m4v container.
It says it’s protected, and when I enable it (and disable stereo) I can’t hear anything. This could be because it’s firing out my optical cable with encryption. When I connect my Sony receiver to my Mac via optical spdif, it should (in theory) be decrypted and played in full surround, right?
Hope so!
Someone at work has been secretly posting cartoon dead birds on the windows and a colleague has made a photoblog about it. Pretty funny stuff.
Just found this free header image spinner made in Flash. Not normally a big fan of Flash, but clients are. And often ask for rotating header images in a fancy manner mostly requesting Flash. Sometimes it’s appropriate to suggest a simple jQuery slider, but this adds 3D/neat transitions which could be good for your next project.
Made by progressivered.com, view the demo
It’s been almost a year and a half of using Apple’s iPhone and after paying a pocket cooling £40ish a month I’ve decided to realign my needs and wants with a realistic and ideal phone/plan.
No more shall I have to wait for my phone to reboot. Never shall I have to choose one of the eight constantly annoying message tones (WTF why can’t we customise these anyway). Nor shall I wait and wait and wait for o2’s sad and tired “childrens” data network.
I’m returning the phone from whence it came* and leaving o2** at the start of next year.
I’ve just bought a second hand Nokia 6300 for maz which is amazing, yet still on o2. However it’s not using their data line so it’s fine.
Had a look around for variations and the newer 6303 and 6700 have better battery, more features etc. But none have native syncing with OS X. This guy has made a free plugin for Nokia phones so you can download it and sync then stick it to th guy with the iPhone. Or buy the plugin from this guy if your Nokia is either 3109 classic, 3110 classic, 3120 classic, 3500 classic, 5000, 5200, 5220 XpressMusic, 5300, 5310 XpressMusic, 5610 XpressMusic, 6233, 6234, 6300, 6300i, 6301, 6303 classic, 6500 classic, 6500 slide, 6555, 6600 fold, 6600 slide, 6700 classic, 8600 Luna, 8800 Arte, 8800 Sapphire Arte, 8800 Carbon Arte.
* Arrested Development quote
** I’ll probably stay with o2, just have a different contract
Unfortunately for o2, the iPhone has been opened up to other carriers. Vodafone and Orange have both cited that they will start selling the iPhone soon as o2 was the exclusive reseller.
And this is a good thing. o2’s network is quivering under strain from heavy usage. A word from a bird says o2’s network is at 97% capacity. It’s apparent to iPhone users that their network is showing signs of defeat as most times signal drops and data crawls even disconnects frequently. Hopefully Orange and Vidafone have enough beef to hold the rest of us in a digital downward spiral of bits before we all hit the bottom of timeouts.
