This is pretty cool. It’s a way of running Windows apps as if they were Mac apps with no trace of anything windows, unless you wanted to install Internet Explorer 6. i installed it for a min and during the few mins I could stomach the look of it I did get it to work and unlike engadget who couldn’t get it to load anything, I had a quick surf with it. IE didn’t scroll well at all with the trackpad which meant I had to use the arrows which wasn’t ideal.
For a program that’s suppost to run natively, it was pretty slow and dissapointing. I was hoping to be able to install blaxxun contact (3d viewer that is designed to work only on windows and only on IE 6) but unfortunatly it gave an error when it was on 100% of the installation. The installer did work ok up until that point and worked in the same way as on windows.
Installing is easy, it works with compatible exe files and CD’s / DVD’s as well as the built in installer system which reminds me of the linux / ubuntu installer.
Seing as the only thing I would really want Windows for are to play some games and possibly get 3d working (which is doesn’t) this is probably the thing for me when compared with boot camp or parralels but the problem for me would be paying the money for the games and crossover without knowing for certain if they will be compatible (or run well enough). On the other hand I do have an old Windows box to play it on so it wouldn’t be a total lost cause.
Either way, if you have an intel Mac and a few windows games, why not give this a try.
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Everyone would like to be able to come up with a successful plan to make money, but how do you get it? I mean the world has gone past the stage where pretty much everything has been done. Now when you think you’ve got something unique, you’ll probably get dissapointed sooner or later.
For example you might come up with a great business name only to find every domain for that name has been taken or possibly trademarked.
I think the last thing was the Million Dollar Homepage which I’ve talked about before. The creator Alex Tew is just a guy around my age who took a chance, for it to pay off bigtime. You have to respect that.
When you want to do web design for example, what can you do that no one else out of the hundreds of others can’t. I can think of a couple of things but it will also limit the size of the client companies you can work for.
I get the feeling that maybe the simpler, the better. I bet there’s a fair amount to be made in the lemonade business.
It’s that time again, new Mac ads on Apple.com.
These ones are some of the best so far I’d say. My favourite of the new 3 and including all the older ones is the one above. This one is about spyware and PC is trying to disguise himself to hide away. Justin Long (Mac) rejects the offer of glasses, fake nose and moustache and explains how Macs don’t have to worry about this stuff.
It’s good to see that apple can put comedy in the ads as much as possible. I especially liked the part where PC said, “hello, I am no one” which is slightly different to the usual hello, I’m a PC line.
I had to join in on this argument again. I have mentioned before here that I’m a big fan of open source and the Gimp. I have also said how good it is to be fully open source.
I would have to say that at the present time Photoshop is the better program but it would be pretty shameful for Adobe if it was inferior to Gimp. Adobe are a huge company that has millions to spend on development of their products as opposed to Gimp who somehow produce the funds to make a more than decent app and make it open source too.
I think personally the only real problem with the Gimp is the lack of a full screen environment, instead prefering floating windows which can easily get lost behind other open apps. (Hopefully Spaces for leopard can help to sort this).
I was going to also say that you can’t drag images from the finder into Gimp like you can in Photoshop. However, that isn’t the case as I (finally) figured out you can drag items from iPhoto, the finder etc onto the Gimp dock icon to open them. The only thing I don’t think you can do is drag in photos from the net to the app without saving them to the disk first. This is a small inconvenience but not a huge problem.
So yeah Photoshop is good, but The Gimp is underrated by many I think.
Anyone who gets the opportunity to watch / listen to anything from this year’s Reading and Leeds festival’s I urge you to take it.
I’m hoping some stuff will appear on youtube soon but in the meantime I’m looking forward to the Raconteurs later today/tomorrow.
MUSE were amazing, The Arctic Monkeys are impressing me more and more, I wasn’t a big fan of theirs at first and primal Scream were great live too.
Here’s a taste of what the MUSE gig was like. Incredible stuff
He’s back, and this time he’s brought some freaking videos with him. That’s right, the Boy Genius has a BlackBerry Pearl (8100) and shot some footage of the damned thing in action.
The Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Pearl 8100 pics and videos! - Engadget Mobile
The camera function shows RIM are trying to make Blackberry more appealing to non-business customers. Sounds good to me.
It’s pretty small, decievingly small for a phone with an almost full size keyboard.
The only problem is, I just got my O2 X3 (Benq Siemens S70) working with my memory card reader (thanks to finding the SD / Mini SD adapter) and hence my Macbook. It’s perfect, for the first time I can drag and drop files on and off the phone without having to use the windows only software which didn’t even work with video or music files. I guess the only thing that isn’t perfect is the quality of the camera which is 1.3 megapixels.
So considering this, why should I spend money on a blackberry? Unless it has a 5MP camera with video and wi-fi I don’t think I’ll be splashing out on one any time soon.
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Justin Gatlin won the 100 metres and 200 metres at the olympics and the 100 at world championship un-doped but for some reason he decided he needed to improve (not sure where the logic in that is), and the only way to do that was to drug himself up with a performance enhancer. This lead to him drawing the 100 metres world record but then subsiquently him being banned for 8 years from track and field.
So now he’s almost certainly ended his athletics career for seemingly no reason.
This sort of reminds me of the Zidane incident, ending an illustrious career on a huge low, overshadowing everything else.
It took long enough but Writely has been moved to Google’s systems and therefore is now available for everyone who wants an account. For free of course.
Here’s a screen of the main menu which shows and gives you access to all of your docs and the ability to upload new ones and create them from scratch online.
I’m a big fan of Writely. I think it’s another way Google can make the world better and easier. If I was still at college, this would be an invaluable app for me.
I used to have to transport my documents between college and home by a usb stick or by using email which isn’t as good in my opinion.
If I was at college now, I’d like to be able to just create documents online, take a backup of them and be able to edit, make backups at the other end, email, rename, download and edit in word / openoffice, create a pdf from the file or print the file out. I think that’s everything.
The possibilities are exciting and now I’m eagerly anticipating a Google branded presentation creation app to add to Writely and spreadsheets to offer the complete online productivity package to rival office.
ok, so if you want to check it out, click here and make an account.
Looks like a new Palm Treo smartphone is coming soon. I was thinking the camera on the current treo 650 looked a little poor for the price, especially when you compare it to the phones of other manufacturers.
I’m hopeful they’re going to add something along the lines of a 3 megapixel cam to it and seing as they’re going to introduce it on vodafone live, I’m also guessing free mobile tv on contract (which is usually the only way you can get these phones anyway) will be included.
This according to ZDNet.
I just got a firmware update for the macbook after seing a post about it in the Macintosh group on Flickr.
It’s ok, it makes the fan more prominent when you’re using it like its going a little now. I’m not sure if it makes any difference to the actual performance of the machine, what it does to battery life, lowering the heat etc. I’ll have to test it a bit more before I can say.
It did get extremely hot when it was in use before after a while of watching videos, dvds and other heavy use.
Like I said, it’s good that apple are making an effort to eliminate the whine you occasionally get on it and make better use of the fan. I miss the silence though.
I’ll use it more heavily later and see what it behaves like now. I still have reservations about putting it on my lap, I tried it just now and it still felt a little too toasty to do that for too long.