Often people waste loads of video footage that they have compiled over years by just not being creative enough. They might have videos on the worst storms or the most memorable moments, or better still those about big companies and their tales. Not Simon Klose though. The documentary filmmaker claims to have more than 200 hours of unedited footage, which he plans to turn into a full length feature by the name of, The Pirate Bay: Away from Keyboard.
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I run, I work out, I cycle and doing all that with an iPod or with my mobile device playing music is a bit difficult. I am always cautious about dropping the device and suffering a major loss. There are cheaper, smaller MP3 players but I am game for a quality product. Appears Apple has just got the right product for us all with the new iPod Nano, exactly as had been predicted earlier today.
The new iPod Nano is nano to its very design, squarer, with dimensions shrunk by 46% and the weight reduced by half. It will boast a touch screen, which is a super great addition, primarily because the size is so small. The sad news is that Apple has removed the camera, which the last version had, but then it was larger and heavier.
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So it wasn’t rumor after all. I have sort of grown considering a couple of these rumors to be true right before a major Apple event. Today at the Music Event, Steve Jobs took the stage and confirmed that the next generation of the iPod Touch will be your iPhone 4 without a contract.
How? Well you have got your Retina Display, dual camera with the primary camera being a 5 MP one and has the same 960 by 640, 3.5 inch display. The device runs on the A4 processor and is available with a maximum storage capacity of 64GB. From all that has been talked about and explained for the new iPod touch the confirmation will only come when the devices are out on sale in the stores and we have more detailed news on hardware. For now, it looks impressive by all means.
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The Apple Music Event is just short of a few hours and knowing that we have been talking about it a lot for the last couple of weeks. But we can’t help but talk more. Primarily because news and rumors will keep popping out until Steve Jobs takes the stage and starts off disclosing things or products at the event. You can watch the Live Stream at Apple.
The Live event starts streaming at 10:00 AM PT but it will only be available for Mac users. Meaning this would require Mac running the Snow Leopard or a device running the iOS 3.0 or higher. I am not surprised given that only Apple lovers will be interested in watching the stream more than their PC counterparts. However in my opinion it’s quite a poor tactic, of course I understand we must consider ourselves lucky that Apple has changed its tradition and actually throwing up a Live Coverage, but why deprive others? Anyways that’s Apple’s own decision and I know it wont hurt them to not stream this to PC users.
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The Apple Music Event is just a few hours away and we are, as always we are both sure and unsure of a few things coming our way today. The entire Web has been streaming with news, rumors about the iPod Touch 4s, etc in association to what is coming. Starting from the most pointless of Lady Gaga to start in new Apple Commercials, all the way to a useful extension of preview length for tracks on iTunes. There can a lot more or many might just be left disappointed, though the probability is low.
I thought of jotting down a few expectations that I have in connection to today’s event. Thought I would share what might be coming our way, beginning with:
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Not many are patient enough to wait for things to come to them, they would gladly rush into things. I am one example, I have the HTC Desire running Android 2.1 and I am impatient for a better method on how to install Froyo on Desire. However there is some good news for Droid Incredible users as Verizon is pushing the manual update for the Froyo.
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Something worthy to talk about for a change at Digg. First things first, I hate the new Digg, it’s crappy, in no man’s land and I have no idea what Kevin Rose was thinking when he updated it. Anyways Digg has got itself a new CEO, a position that had been held by Kevin Rose after Jay Adelson relinquished the position back in April. The position will now be taken by former Amazon Exec, Matt Williams.
Digg had been on the lookout for almost a month and I bet the title of CEO had added more pressure on the Young Kevin Rose, who in my personal opinion is not really up to the task. Rose will head back to his previous position as Chief Architect at Digg, a position he rightly deserves and is more suitable for him.
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Good news for all those Apple fans out there, especially for ones who have been complaining about the short duration of previews of music at the iTunes. Apple has extended that from a mere 30 seconds to a minute to give your ears enough music to make a judgment.
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I reported earlier this month of Google shutting down Google Wave after all the hype it created with its launch and then dying down. Appears as if the idea of going from invite only to public contributed more to its death than a rapid growth. However the services isn’t dead as yet as Google has extended its availability till the end of 2010.
The purpose? Google wants to have users import all the data they have shared on Wave by giving them tools to do so. These will be made available in the next month or two, definitely before December to give you enough time to export your Waved stuff. It saddens me to see this great tool die down, it was definitely ahead of its time and a great initiative and I think poor marketing was primarily responsible for it dying so abruptly. I personally think if Google would have had made a little extra effort to promote this, Wave would have lived up to the expectations that Google had: an evolution of communicating and collaborating online.
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Google to me means big, improving your Web experience and of course including some concerns of putting too much trust on one service. But it has definitely evolved our experience with services like the Search, and more importantly, Gmail. The free email service continues to make emailing better. Today Google is taking a step further by helping you keep an eye on emails that are or should be your top priority.
