I just came across this today while doing my daily reading. With Apple’s iTunes 7.0 release and their new games, people thoguht it was a great extension of the iPod line. But appearently, people have been doing this with Doom for over a year now. Who knew 
For those of you that haven’t paid attention to the media circus that was Apple’s product announcement today here’s the summary:
1) New version of iTunes (version 7). In the US, you get full movie downloads, with international movies hopefully coming early in the new year. (Ya right, still waiting for TV downloads in Canada). The new interface is actually very slick and a much improvment (atleast on Windows) over the last one. One thing I did notice though: 100MB of Memory used. Download here. Oh, and one more thing: for fifth generation iPods, we now have much better games to play on them, but they’ll cost you money ($55 for the set of 9). I’m just waiting for someone to download them, hack them, and make them freely available.
2) New iPods: We get the 5.5 Generation video iPods (now in 39 and 80GB capacities with brighter screens and longer batteries, for a lower price), new iPod nano’s that feature the same aluminum colours that the old Mini’s had, and a new iPod Shuffle that looks more like a matchbook.
3) Project iTV: a MacMini like set top box which is suppose to allow the supposed wireless streaming of media files from your computers to your TV (very useful with Movie downloads). Not shipping yet, just the project was announced, which is admitely unusual for Apple (to annouce products before they’re released.
Opened up my google personalized homepage to find this greeting me:
Item #2 on my list: figure out who Sophia B. is….
I don’t know but this Swiss Army Knife makes a good case for it. Enough said.
Slashdot has a story now, saying that Matt Damon (yes, that Matt), is going to play the young James T. Kirk in Star Trek X1, according to IMDB.
That’s right, I challenge anyone there to bet this guy. Kind of wish I had moves as sweet as him.
Wonder what his final score was, cause there is definitly one part where he misses an entire seires of steps (though what he does instead is definitly impressive).
Ah, the bikini. First introduced 60 years ago to a very critical audience, this exceptionally small piece of swimwear in now a standard in the world of fashion design. But as we move into 2006, we now have doctors telling us to stay covered up in the sun to reduce our UV exposure, rendering our favourite bathing suit a health hazard.
Well, enter Solestrom, who has created a new, $190 model that listens to those doctors’ advice to make sure you don’t get too crispy while enjoying the sun. So long as they don’t come up with a speedo model to compliment it, I’m happy.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles teaser. March 30, 2007. You know where I’ll be, enough said.
The teaser is also available in H.264 HD, up to 1080p resolution. That’s wider than my monitor running at 1600×1200 people. Enjoy the coming age of HD glory.
Valve just published a demonstration video of their newest game, Portal, which is suppose to get released along with Half-Life2: Episode 2. The concept and technology involved looks sick, but I’m curious as to how well the game will actually play once it’s moved beyond demonstration content.
Science Daily reports:
Forget the phrase, “sharp as a tack.” Now, thanks to new University of Alberta research the popular expression might become, “sharp as a single atom tip formed by chemically assisted spatially controlled field evaporation.” Maybe it doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily, but considering the researchers have created the sharpest object ever made, it would be accurate.
