Category: Computers

It’s like comparing Apples and Apples

Apple Corps (the Beatles’ record label and tax shelter) is suing Apple Computer for a third time over the Apple trademark. In the 80’s when Apple Computer was a startup, Apple Corps sued Apple Computer over use of the Apple trademark. A settlement was reached where Apple Corps agreed to “share” the Apple trademark as long as Apple Computer never sold music. Now, with iTunes being a huge money maker for Apple Computer, Apple Corps is suing again. Apple Computer contends that the agreement reached in the 80’s does allow Apple Computer to sell online data transfers, which is all iTunes does.

Legal rangling aside, I don’t know what Apple Corps’ problem is. Apple Corps is not a huge record label that makes it’s money from selling, producing, and packaging music from a wide spectrum of artists. As far as I know, Apple Corps only releases Beatles CDs and DVDs and facilitates the distribution of profits to the Beatles and their heirs. So, with Apple Corps’ only product being Beatles media, and since the iTunes music store does not sell any Beatles media (nor does any other online music store) what are the damages to Apple Corps?

Come on guys, let it go.

Chuck Norris Facts

I know just enough Perl to be dangerous. Check out my Chuck Norris Facts web page that randomly displays you a Chuck Norris fact. (Facts were gathered from ChuckNorrisFacts.com.)

No Firewire on the new Video iPod

I’ve known that the new video iPod didn’t support Firewire since before the new iPod was released but never gave it much thought until my brother brought over his. I own a G4 eMac, and a G3 iBook. Both use USB 1.0, and Firewire 400. Without thinking, I plugged his video iPod into my iPod firewire cable. (Which is the exact same plug BTW.) My eMac promptly told me that Firewire is no longer supported by the new iPod. That got me thinking …

If I were to buy a new video iPod, I would be forced to sync my MP3 and Video library using the painfully slow USB 1.0 connection. How lame! Essentially, if you don’t have a Mac with USB 2.0, there’s no point in buying a video iPod. If you’re someone who really wants the new iPod, and doesn’t have USB 2.0, I guess you’ll just have to buy a new Mac as well. Sure, spending an additional $1000 just so that you can use your new iPod makes sense. Sheesh. Bad move Apple.

Apple Announces new Intel-based Macs

Apple announced today that the new iMac will use a dual-core Intel processor. 2-3 times faster than a G5, this new iMac gives the Apple product line a greatly needed kick in the pants in regards to performance.

In even more exciting news, Apple has announced a new laptop, the MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro will also feature a dual-core Intel processor, with a 4x-5x performance increase over the comparable Powerbook.

Switched to WordPress

I finally got off my butt and switched to WordPress. I’ve done several other sites using WordPress but didn’t get around to switching my own over to it until now. I’m working on getting my old blog archived so that I can link to it from here in case anyone wants to look up old blog entries of mine. Since I’m essentially starting my blog over, it’s going to take some time to get a decent collection of content going. I hope everyone likes the new look!