I love Isabel Roces. I hope she loves me too.
Appearing Jan – Feb 2006 for m|ph.
What a nice lady. She made us all feel at ease during the shoot.
I’m also sporting my new look for 2006, facial hair and all. At least people don’t say I look like Mr. Bean anymore.
Tonight, just like all true Mac lovers, I am staying up to “watch” Steve Job’s keynote for MacWorld 2006.
1:00 am, our time.
Our official correspondent is author and fellow mugger Butch Dalisay. W00t!
UPDATE: You can view a live coverage here:
http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/
UPDATE 2: *Yawn*
I was bored for the better part of Steve Jobs’ keynote. Honestly, nothing completely impressive here.
1. Most of the new stuff has tight integration with .mac users. This is a good thing for current subscribers because I feel that they aren’t getting their money’s worth with the current subscription. IMHO, a .mac account is nothing more than a glorified email address and a Plaxo solution for the Macintosh since Windows is the only one supported.
2. < sarcasm >New widgets! More fixes! Full screen editing! Less bugs! I can now make greeting cards! Whoop dee doo!< /sarcasm >
3. The podcast studio is pretty cool. It sorta helps podcasting newbies edit their own stuff. Of course, you can do thise using an external app, but I guess it’s part of Apple’s core competency to make stuff a lot easier for everyone.
4. Podcasting, videocasting, and now photocasting! Share your photos online … huh? Doesn’t Flickr and Shutterbook and even Yahoo! Photos do this already? PLus, these services are free! Jobs better brush up on his spellcasting.
5. I like the new magnetic tip for the MacBook (the Powerbook is dead, long live the MacBook!). This is perhaps the best innovation they’ve come up this whole keynote. The charger that plugs into the portable is magnetic, making it easier to whip out. So when your dog steps on the power cord, the cord flies away easily, leaving the portable safe on the desk – not getting yanked!
6. And the new MacBook? Cool. Fast. Expensive – $1999.00. Blech. I’m not rich. And more importantly, I don’t need it.
I think one of the reasons why I’m downplaying the new product releases is because I’ve already seen most of these services being offered by 3rd party dudes. The recent months have brought several great web-based / open source stuff such as Protopage, Writely, Meebo, Flickr and Shutterbook. Is Apple merely playing catch-up to the indies?
I’m creating this test post using the new open source Flock browser. I was listening to an offshoot podcast of Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech, titled Inside the Net. Episode 6 featured Chris Messina, one of Flock’s founders.
Flock seems to be the browser targeted towards online guys and gals who enjoy online publishing – blogs, photo uploading, and creating RSS favorites and bookmarks via del.icio.us.
So I downloaded the bugger and decided to give it a try. There’s not much I see from face value that could attribute to the death of Firefox. In fact, Flock seems to be nothing more than a Firefox mod.
Right now, I’m just having fun with the blogging tool – I was able to upload my WP blog settings into Flock and I can easily post stuff using a Blog This function similar to what we see in Blogspot. I am able to add tags to my post as well as Categories (which are miraculously synched from my categories page in WordPress).
The top bar of the blogging tool allows me to search for a user from Flickr, view his or her photos and link them to my post. In this case, I’ve chosen my photos and used one of them above. Coolness!
In the next few weeks, devs and third party dudes will be uploading more and more plugins. I’ve barely had time to experiement with this thing that I might have overlooked a WP plugin for uploading pictures.
Hope you guys could download it and give it a shot.
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