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OS X Leopard Screenshots
02109 days
by Jason
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It was only a matter of time really. Apple gave out developers copies of Mac OS X Leopard to all the attendees of the World Wide Developers Conference, so it figures that there’s going to be some leaked screen shots of the new features.
There’s a forum post over at AeroExperience which has a whole bunch of screen shots.
I’m eagerly awaiting this update, as I just jumped into the world of Apple in April with my MacBook Pro (possibly the best laptop I’ve ever owned). I’m really looking forward to the Spaces virtual desktop stuff. I already use Virtue to do it, but it has some rough edges that I hope apple will address.
The RIAA’s at it again!
02109 days
by Jason
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From the Recording Industry vs. The People webblog centering around the actions of the RIAA comes a story which is just…bizzare.
In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to “grieve”, after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury’s children
Now, I’m not sure how anyone else feels about this stuff…but…that’s just stupid. I’m not entirely sure the people over there are thinking about PR at all when they’re doing this sort of stuff. 60 days of grieving time before we continue to sue the pants off of you. Real nice gesture guys…
QotD: My Intro to the Big Screen
02109 days
by Jason
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What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater?
Question submitted by mainmor.
I’m pretty sure the first movie I ever went to see was The Land Before Time (the original), however, considering I was 4 at the time…That experience is kinda fuzzy.
So instead I’m going to answer with the one I actually really remember: The Rescuers Down Under. We used to have these hardcover books, in the vein of the Dr. Seuss type shape and size. One of them was The Rescuers, which followed the plot of the original movie. Well, I loved that book, about the two mice who tried to save people. So when I saw on TV that they were going to be making another one, well…I REALLY wanted to go.
I was a bit of a…troublemaker in elementary school. Well, really, I got picked on a lot and hadn’t developed the necessary ability to deal with it without over-reacting to people. So my parents made me a deal…I behaved in school for a certain amount of days and I got to go to the movie when it came out. If I remember correctly, it was a double feature. They stuck a little Mickey Mouse short called The Prince and the Pauper, which as a child confused me to no end. I thought we were going to see the Rescuers!
Happy Birthday IBM PC!
02110 days
by Jason
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According to the fine folks over at Engadget, the IBM PC turned 25 years old today. So happy birthday to the IBM PC!
Over there, they took the time to mention some of their first PCs, so I figured it couldn’t hurt to take a trip down memory lane.
My first PC was an 8086 that my dad got. Amber screen, unknown amount of memory (hey, I was pretty young at that point 
). I remember playing Math Blaster and such on that thing way back in the day. I can’t remember if we had our first mouse on that particular computer or the one after, but in any case, I also have fond memories playing with Print Shop of all things. Making banners and newsletters about…odd…things.
The second PC I remember a lot more about. It was a Leading Edge, 386 SX (the crippled one) with a whopping 80MB hard drive. And color! We got so much mileage out of that PC. That was my first introduction to microsoft windows, which I figured out how to use before my Dad figured it out (it was his computer after all). We had windows 3.0 and we liked it back then! We also had some major addons as far as that one was concerned. Adding in a sound card an a 1x CD-ROM drive that connected through the serial port was my first introduction to games..and well…sound. I remember Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego had a really kicking soundtrack. That was so incredibly exciting when all of this stuff was new back then. Amazing actually, living through the time when computers were developing into what they are today. Eventually we got a 400 baud modem for that computer and Prodigy for an online service (they weren’t ISP’s back then), which was my first exposure to what would become the internet.
Now I’m typing this entry on a computer that could beat the crap out of my first ones without even really trying. Progress is amazing, isn’t it?
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