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March 26, 2009
One of my MacBook Pro fans went crazy loud a couple months ago and started making more noise than a jet airplane taking off. One could try to make a case for it by stating that the white noise helps...
June 12, 2008
As I look at the buzz over the soon to launch App Store for the iPhone, I have to wonder: Why is their so much buzz for building clients applications for a 3G phone? Here's my theory: While the development...
June 10, 2008
This is a summary e-mail I sent yesterday to a few executives and friends who wanted my opinion on the new Apple announcements. I felt that the mobile blogging we did as well as the assessment after the keynote was...
June 9, 2008
We have a couple developers on the WWDC floor waiting to get in to the SteveNote this morning. These are the live updates they are able to provide. 11:49am PDT Conference has ended 11:47am PDT Rollout on July 11th at...
February 22, 2008
The MacBook Air is one thin computer. That's the selling point. Apple has done an impressive job associating thinness with coolness since the launch of the laptop. But could Apple's "You can't be too thin." campaign be extrapolated by young...
February 21, 2008
I'm extremely flustered with e-mail right now. When it comes to options for retrieving e-mail we have POP3 protocol or IMAP4 protocol. POP3 is basically one way and only works with the inbox and only the inbox. You can grab...
January 18, 2008
A couple days ago I wrote about Apple TV Take 2 and how it might very well kill BluRay (in my world HD-DVD is all but dead due to recent announcements). Alex wrote in the comments that we won't...
January 17, 2008
Last summer, Apple figured out how to put a computer in a phone. Yet they haven't yet figured out how to put a phone in a computer. Jeffrey McManus' post on what he'd like to see from Apple resonated with...
December 6, 2007
When I was in college, we had a few different choices for computer labs, including Macs and PCs. But they were in separate locations and generally had different audiences. I tended to use a Mac lab for writing papers and...
September 26, 2007
I had a chance to discuss Technology Evangelist, upcoming tech conferences and Apple products (of course) with Daniel Brusilovsky from Apple Universe in a podcast recorded September 23rd. Daniel is a high school sophomore in California and self-professed Apple addict....
July 4, 2007
Now that the iPhone hype is finally winding down (I think) it feels like a good time to reflect on where the product got it's start. Remember the iPod? They still make those non-phone versions of the iPhone. And here...
July 3, 2007
This is quite possibly the most boring video ever published to the Internet. Unless you happen to be one of the people who waited in line for an iPhone at the Mall of America or know someone who did. The...
June 30, 2007
Joe Dowdell was the first in line at the Mall of America Apple store, was first out of the store with his new iPhone, and was first to do an unboxing ceremony for iJustine right outside the store. I think...
WCCO, the Minneapolis CBS affiliate ran an iPhone story by their techno-geek, Jason DeRusha, which featured iJustine and the voice of Technology Evangelist's Cariann Higginbotham (off camera when Justine is explaining the awesomeness of the iPhone to the camera). It's...
June 29, 2007
Here is a quick look of the line forming outside the Apple store at the Mall of America. Only 6 minutes to go until launch....
Less than 15 minutes to go until the launch of the iPhone. Here is a shot of the line growing outside the Apple store at the Mall of America. It's not outgrown the three turns they thought they'd need to...
What are iPhones going for on Ebay? Find out for yourself by checking the "Competed Auctions" section of the iPhone cell phone page. Right now, it looks like Buy it Now auctions are closing in the $999 - $1299 range...
People came prepared for a long wait with their laptops, surfing the web for the latest updates on blogs, watching APPL stock, and talking about why they've taking time out of a beautiful Friday to spend it inside a mall,...
May 29, 2007
Apple has banned MySpace.com in their retail stores and this has created an interesting debate here at TechnologyEvangelist.com. While Ed Kohler is in the 'this is a good thing' camp, I tend to think this is a bad thing. Blocking...
May 28, 2007
Let's say I just talked my parents into buying a new Mac. This would probably occur after stopping by their house to help them with a problem with their current computer where I'd suggest to them that it's not worth...
April 24, 2007
Recently Apple sent out a newsletter to videocasters explaining how to optimize their videos for the Apple TV. A lot of it was pretty basic stuff but one section in particular caught my eye. Apple suggests only encoding for the...
April 16, 2007
Apple yesterday showed its willing to lose money to capture the pro-video market. Anyone paying attention to what Apple purchased in the past couple of years, to get the technology in Final Cut Server and the new “Color” software...
March 12, 2007
The launch of the iPhone will be a tipping point in web development, marking the day that web developers start taking the Safari browser seriously for developing web applications. When building web sites it's pretty typical to develop for Firefox...
March 10, 2007
Steve Borsch over at Connecting the Dots has a great article on switching his father over to a Mac from a PC after growing tired of removing spyware and adware from his father's computer. My Dad + Macintosh = Ahhh......
February 16, 2007
An impressive basement Mac collection. Personally, I have a somewhat less impressive pile of PCs on life support in my basement. Via Ben's Bits....
February 14, 2007
Apple has a little product called iChat AV which is only available on Mac OS X systems. I remember watching the keynote when Steve Jobs first announced the video conferencing solution and I was blown away. h.264 as the primary...
February 9, 2007
The creative folks behind Be A Design Group managed to land anexclusiveguest post by the primary color, Yellow. Yes, that's right. A color wrote apost. And it turns out Yellow had a few things to say about the way it...
On January 5th, 2000 Apple unveiled their new web site. This site was like nothing we had seen on the Internet (I'm practicing my RDF). In a time of flashing animated GIF 'SALE' graphics and more, MORE, M-O-R-E on every...
January 9, 2007
Apple has announced that their product codenamed iTV will actually be called Apple TV. It's an interesting product, but does it really bring any innovation to this marketspace? Apple is not the first to create a media center extender, which...
January 4, 2007
Net Application's latest newsletter included a look at year over year operating system market share as detected by their stats software installed on websites across the web. Here is what they found: Looks like a 27% increase for Macs over...
December 25, 2006
After a few days with the relatives, I've had a chance to reset my tech-centric self with a good dose of real-world tech use. There were no conversations about RSS, the intricacies of Google's search algorithm, blog platforms, Web 2.0...
November 15, 2006
I recently started having a nagging problem with FireFox on my Macbook Pro where FireFox would randomly freeze and serve up the spinning beach ball of death. I could force quit out of it and generally start back up where...
November 12, 2006
I'm turning into a big fan of Smart Playlists in iTunes 7. Here is my current iTunes situation: 2500+ songs Wide range of genres Lots of podcasts Lots of podcasts improperly labeled as music after initial import of MP3s. This...
November 11, 2006
I just listened to a podcast that you'd really enjoy. It's an hour long, so you probably can't drop what you're doing right now to listen to it, but if you agreed that it sounded interesting, you'd probably click on...
November 5, 2006
There is a "feature" of Mac OS X that allows me to control the way my tab key works. By default when I hit tab it will only scroll between text boxes and lists. This is fine unless I'm using Firefox and trying to fill out an online form that has a drop-down field, at which point the tab key will not select it. For example: I want to buy the domain bengasm.com from Go Daddy and when I enter in my credit card info I can not tab to the State field, Credit Card type field or Expiration fields, it just jumps right past them. In the Windows and Linux builds of Firefox this is not an issue, when I hit tab I will jump from field to field including the drop-down fields. Take a peek at the video below to see how when I hit tab, I just jump right past the drop down boxes.
November 3, 2006
As I understand it, one of the supposedly great features of Apple's MacBook Pro notebooks is the magnetic power cord attachment to the computer called MagSafe. Using a magnetic allows the cord to break free of the computer if someone...
November 1, 2006
Top Blog Posts for October How Blogs Hurt Google News Google Rebrands Writely to Launch Docs & Spreadsheets How .Mac saved my computer Why Would WalMart Need a Fake Blog to Communicate with RV Travelers? A Few Perspectives on Internet...
October 20, 2006
Are you this bad of a speller? Do you type messages on blogs, click the ABC Check button on the Google Toolbar to turn the questionably spelled terms red, then click "Add to Dictionary" after Google's told you a term...
October 8, 2006
I have two MacBook Pro?ǨѢs that I use for video editing. One of these computers is also my primary workstation with e-mail, calendars, contacts, PIM sync, etc., This computer is now in the caring hands of an Apple Genius as they work to repair a bad fan and top case assembly. No major problems, but enough minor problems to warrant a fix. I had been meaning to switch computers anyhow since the other computer was faster. Time to migrate data.
September 18, 2006
PVR Wire is reporting that Systemax has launched a series of new Mini PCs that may be "prime candidates" for use as PVRs: Systemax Mini Media Center PC - PVR Wire Systemax has launched 3 new computers in what it's...
August 28, 2006
St. Paul Pioneer Press tech reporter, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, has blogged about about a problem with new Macs suddenly shutting down. He references an article in The Inquirer, that explains: "Apple message boards seem to be debating the cause of the...
June 22, 2006
I took the leap today and migrated all of my business apps to my MacBook Pro. 90% of my work can be done on my Macintosh and now the other 10% can also be done on my Macintosh. What do I mean by that? I mean my Mac is running both Mac OS X and Windows XP at the same time!
June 20, 2006
We have covered the basics of why I like the Treo 700p but now it's time to tell you what I don't like about it. No digital device is perfect, and while the Treo line is the best of the best, I still have a few items I wish Palm would include:
June 19, 2006
A couple of people have e-mailed me and asked what I do to sync my Treo 700p/w to my Macintosh. The answer is in the form of Mark/Space's Missing Sync. Not only will the Missing Sync allow Macintosh users to easily sync their Palm devices, but it's also the best syncing tool available on any platform.
May 31, 2006
On May 24, 2006 SightSpeed introduced version 4.6 of their video conferencing solution and I must say that I was blown away. I have been patiently waiting for a video solution with quality as good as, if not better, than Apple's iChat AV which would also work cross-platform and be easy to use. Finally SightSpeed has come to the rescue.
May 30, 2006
The thing I like most about traditional web search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN is that they ask very little of me as a content creator. All I have to do is make my web site easy for to crawl by their search engine spiders. The beauty of this is that it's a fairly easy thing to do, and I don't have to change a thing if additional search engines are launched. New search engines can index my site's content and display results from my site without any additional work on my part.
May 17, 2006
This is a list of web sites and products mentioned during Roald Marth's presentation at Dynatek's 14th Annual User Conference at VisTaTech Center in Livonia, MI:
May 13, 2006
Apple users are willing to take a large amount of abuse from the mothership. They will forgive Apple for just about every problem, heck, they will even sing the praises of Apple for the pain they go through. I should know… I’m a hardcore Apple user.
May 2, 2006
The Macintosh rumor site MacOSRumors.com is reporting that the next version of Mac OS X will employ a BitTorrent driven iTunes. The story is probably buried under online advertising, so you’ll have to work to read it… You know, close the pop-up window, now close the hover window, and it’s next to the 10 Google ads. Hmmm, knowing them it’s probably under 3 more pop up advertisements.
This is just a rumor and Apple rumors are rarely correct, but this particular item is very interesting and near and dear to me. At Technology Evangelist we have dabbled in distributing high definition videos online via bit torrent and have even highlighted a key application called Democracy Player. Lets make the assumption that this rumor is true (just go with it for now) and that Apple will be releasing a torrent engine in the Mac OS X 10.5 version of iTunes. What does this mean and why?
March 24, 2006
The latest HDTV podcast from the HT Guys (#76) mentions Technology Evangelist's syndicated HD videos content available through iTunes.
March 16, 2006
Yesterday I posted on Democracy player, and right now it's Technology Evangelist's preferred player for techies. As we stated, it's a wee bit buggy and not for everyone yet, so how can you watch our HDTV content if you're not an uber-geek?
March 15, 2006
I ran across an application recently that will change the world. I see massive media networks like NBC, CBC, BBC and others all stand by and watch as their business models are blown to bits. Everything we know about television, radio and media in general will be re-imagined. As Jeff Jarvis recently posted quoting Rupert Murdoch, "A new generation of media consumers has risen demanding content delivered when they want it, how they want it, and very much as they want it." I'm throwing my hat in the ring and screaming to the world "it’s time, the revolution is here!" So what is this hot app? What will change the world?? What could make such a huge dent in the traditional media universe??? It’s simple -- Democracy.
March 4, 2006
As I complete the editing of our next episode of "The Innovators" I thought it would be fun to mention some of the nifty little things that we do inside of each video as it's posted. Since the next video will have a lot of URLs in it, I think you'll find these tips handy. Please note that the following applies to our "Watch Now" clip only and not to the clips you would download via iTunes or any other RSS feed we may have.
Progressive Start
Our Watch Now clip is authored in such a way that it should start playing immediately if you have a 1Mbps or greater connection to our server. This means no buffering time, no waiting, nothing. If you only have a 56k connection or slower broadband connection to the net, that's OK, you'll just have to wait a bit longer. Unlike traditional streaming media, you'll still be able to watch in full quality no matter what your connection speed.
Chapter Marks
In the lower right hand corner of the player you'll see a nifty drop down with a title in it. This drop down lists the chapters that are available for playback. If you have not yet downloaded a chapter yet, it will not show up in this list, only items you're able to view will be in here. This is nice if you want to jump to a specific point in the video.
URL banners
You may have noticed that we place the URL of different web sites in the video feed. Not only are they handy to reference, but they are clickable too. For reasons beyond my comprehension, Apple decided to not change your cursor to a pointing hand when you're hovering over a link, so the only way to know that you can click on it is if I tell you. Well, any time you see a black bar with a URL in it, you can click on it (and sometimes you can click on the name banners too).
Full Screen
I'll be posting an experimental full-screen mode for users that don't have QuickTime Pro. Once again Apple baffles the mind and decided to not allow full-screen playback unless the viewer purchases QuickTime Pro, or if the author puts special tags in their media to force the player full screen. Needless to say, we'll have the special tags. I'll be doing this with the 480p content, so make sure your box is able to play 480p h.264 video, otherwise it may stutter a bit.
Syndication
You can view any of our HD feeds right inside of your favorite video syndication software, such as Apple iTunes. Simply browse for our feeds directly in iTunes, or subscribe to our feed manually from this page. We offer feeds in 480p, 720p, 1080p, Video iPod, Sony PSP, MP3 and AAC formats. We'll even be posting torrent feeds soon giving you access to the all new Democracy Player.
I'm about done editing our next episode, but as I have mentioned before it takes a very long time to compress the content. As soon as I have a majority of the video ready, I'll post her online to help curb your HD addiction. Hope everyone enjoys these nifty tips!
March 2, 2006
I have had MANY comments asking why we chose QuickTime to distribute "The Innovators" when we could have used Flash, Windows Media, etc. I have also had a few questions on why we chose HDV to shoot in as opposed to DVCPRO HD and whatnot. Lets start first with the equipment.
February 19, 2006
I have been asked many times what the best laptop is. My answer is
actually not a laptop at all, rather, a TabletPC. Being a huge fan of
Apple Computer, this surprises many, but Apple has no product that can begin
to compare to the Fujitsu 4020 TabNote.
February 16, 2006
Microsoft?ǨѢs Xbox 360 and Sony?ǨѢs Playstation 3 are about more than just games. A lot more. I just recently got my Xbox 360 and have been playing around with some fun stuff involving media downloads. This whole experience makes me think about the future of television.
January 29, 2006
Under this scenario, a company like Yahoo could pay for prioritized bandwidth, causing their site's content to be delivered faster than Google's. Communications companies, including AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth see prioritized bandwidth as a way to generate new revenue from content providers. This is a hot issue deserving attention from internet users because congress is updating the 1996 Telecommunications Act this year.
January 16, 2006
Last week was MacWorld week and the big deal was Steve Jobs demonstrating that in fact you can now get a Mac and be part of the Intel clan. Big deal.
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