Adam has found the Apple store in Chatswood.

Australia will soon have two places of worship for the Apple faithful (the other is on George St, Sydney).

It has IK-bones. It has 3D out-of-the-box. It has that nice animation feature in After Effects where you can control it by manipulating it’s path. It has a better real-time stage player (very handy for working with Video). It has a better bitmap based manipulation system called Hydra.

And did I mention it has bones?

Fuck yeah.

Facebook Video is the fucken awethome.

Nevermind that you can upload video, it’s the sheer ease and ability to record video from your webcam and save it directly to Facebook that is so good.

Imagine the fun you can have, especially for those who have a webcam embedded into their monitor and/or laptop.

ZOMG, it’s awethome.

Love the new Apple keyboard. It’s just like the keyboard on my Mac Book, which feels so good everytime I press a key.

I was about to place an order for the non-wireless version of these bad boys when I realised the non-wireless one is butt-ugly on it’s side. Not only that but the USB ports are on the side instead of at the top like the previous generation Apple keyboards. To me, this new USB port layout feels clumsy and cluttered.

Oh well.

The new iMacs are hot too. Fits my design sensibilities perfectly.

Image from Apple.com

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I’m gonna get it anyway, it’s too hot.

TED (Technology Entertainment Design), is a conference like no other. I’ve been downloading their free video podcasts for a while now. It’s an intimate space where the “thought-leaders, movers and shakers” get to share their ideas for about 18 minutes. They’re enjoyable, interesting and thought provoking. Some of the speakers are there to save the world, some are there to present talks on the human condition and some are there to show off their latest techno gizmos. Al “Save the world” Gore’s and David Pogue’s talks I would say are the most enjoyable.

Here’s the spoiler, tickets are limited, and they cost about $6 000 a pop. Ungh!

* Image from ted.com

For the past few years I’ve dreamed of being able to bring out an accoustic guitar and rock it like John Mayer. But through countless attempts I suck balls and can only play the tune for N.E.R.D’s “She wants to move” and something that I call “autumn morning coffee music” which is really just two variations of the D-chord.

But alas! Ubisoft are bringing out a title called Jam Sessions that lets you strum your DS screen as if it were a real guitar! Add the ability to play different chords and I’m one step closer to becoming a rock star! - with a DS in hand. If I can get a gig through this I’ll let you know.
* image from Joystiq.com

Yeah, this post is PS3 and games related, so skip if you must.

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I’ve missed the iPhone keynote whilst away on holiday. If you’ve haven’t seen it, you should. It’s super drool-worthy times 5. Maybe even by 10.

With programs becoming more powerful each and every day, so has the rise in abundance of program windows, palettes and whatever in between. With browsers, gone are the days of countless windows cluttering your Taskbar. These days, tabs are the way of the future in keeping everything neat and tidy. They’ve made their way into most applications (the creative ones from Adobe and Macromedia at least…) and they’re a terrific way to display countless windows of information within the same space. They aren’t new to the internet nerd, but to more than 75% the people I know, they haven’t heard of this wonderous technology at all - I’m shocked.

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So, the Wii has been out for a week now and after a very long wait since the Nintendo “Revolution” days its quite a wonder realising where it has all come from. If you’ve been living under a rock, this may be Nintendo’s last hearty attempts at gaining supremacy of the market that it had lost since the Xbox and PlayStation stepped into the arena (even if Nintendo do claim that they’re not in it to win).

So after a long Wii-kend (gaw!) playing with the Wii, what’s my super honest opinion on the machine? What’s the verdict on a machine that Nintendo has promised to revolutionise the the way we play “games”? The little white box that aims to capture the hearts of those who have never played games before and those who have lost faith in the ‘ol mighty Nintendo? Well, to be honest, the Nintendo Wii is somewhat under-whelming.

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