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Posts from February 2006

Apple’s Fun New Products–What Really Happened

Well, I was a little too optimistic in my post below. But, I was right about the new Mac Mini, which Apple released right at the beginning of the Keynote. Unfortunately, the Mac Mini is priced pretty heavily at $599 for the 1.5ghz Intel Core Solo and $799 for the 1.66ghz Intel Core Duo.
The other [...]


Apple’s Fun New Products–My Predictions!

Today Apple is hosting yet another event releasing new products. The press invitation said “come see some fun new products”. CNN/Money has their own predictions, and here are mine:
Apple will start the event applauding the one billionth song sold on iTunes. After the first announcement (below), they will set a goal for the billionth video!
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Google Page Creator–It Generates Invalid XHTML!

Google recently rolled out a beta web application called Google Page Creator from their Labs. The application is easy-to-use and one can create a page within seconds. This is no replacement for free online blog/journal sites such as Blogger (also owned by Google) and LiveJournal. All it does is provide the functionality of Geocities (remember [...]


iPod Nano 1GB $149

8:44am: The Apple Store is updating right now. Are they adding Intel iBooks? More to come as this story develops, and my reaction…
8:57am: Apple has added a 1GB iPod Nano model, and it is selling for $149. iPod Shuffle pricing was lowered. The 1GB Shuffle is now $99 and the 512MB Shuffle is $69. Student [...]


Brokeback Mountain

One of the last movies on my movie-watching list was Brokeback Mountain, primarily due to its critical acclaim. Unfortunately, the movie didn’t quite live up to my expectations and dragged at times through its 134 minute run-time.
I feel guilty giving this movie a mediocre review, because it conveys a strong message and has powerful acting [...]


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