I have seen a few in my time coming from Asia, this one is by far the best-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_TZfpEvzrQ
Looks really good until you see the accessories and the GUI, LOL
iPad software holding up production. Apparently Apple held back a week or two to put the final spit and polish on iPad OS. So this article states-
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/05/ipad-ship-date
Apple have officially stated ‘late April’ for rest of world, it remains to be seen when Apple NZ will get their shipment… dont let anyone tell you different-
and pre-orders start on March 12, but alas only for the US. Not sure when NZ will get any as there have been reports of delays at the production plant in China who are not going to make the 1 000 000 units for launch.-
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/04/minor_delays_in_ipad_production_could_limit_apple_launch_to_200k.html
Apple launch announcement here-
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05ipad.html
All I can say is lucky I ordered mine through US, bring it on!
Steve Jobs told Apple employees – “They (Adobe) are lazy. They have all this potential to do interesting things, but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5.”
This is a man possibly way ahead of his time, he has stubbornly refused to allow Flash on the iPhone and upcoming iPad.
Youtube and Google both have alternative beta’s in development instead of Flash based ones, these are HTML5 based.
Problem is most web sites these days employ some form of flash and it would take a major shift by online delivery to re-develop existing websites away from flash to HTML5.
That has begun with Virgin America, they have now released their new website sans flash, new and improved with HTML5!-
http://www.virginamerica.com/va/home.do
Story here-
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/03/virgin-america-dumps-flash-over-lack-of-iphone-support/
Saw this on Digg today, lol, the Aussies better re-define your geography according to Fox news, at least they got NZ right.-
http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/02/fox-news-flunks-geography-again-pic-.html
First XT problems, sure this can happen in early adoption of new hardware/infrastructure, but a year later-
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10628010
Then CTO leaves in a hurry-
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/article/b497d3c7/telecom-network-executive-resigns-amid-ongoing-xt-outages.html
Now emergency 111 calls not working properly-
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10628598
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/telecom/news/article.cfm?o_id=207&objectid=10628144
Can someone switch the lights off in TelecomNZ mobile/phone division on the way out?
Someone come to the party and give them some serious competition?
I really have sympathy for the pro XT people out there hit by this.
Wonder what the XT-VF conversion rate is right now?? 2Degrees really should have a business model in place to catch the fallout?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/telecom/news/article.cfm?o_id=207&objectid=10628347
Apple have reached a significant milestone in their domination of the online music store industry. The lucky person is Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia. He purchased “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash and is set to receive virtual ‘cash’ (itunes money) to the tune of US$10,000. Wow lucky guy-
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/02/25itunes.html
In this day and age of larger drives, bigger files and a need for increased capacity backup systems you need a solution that moves ahead with the times. In the past IT people swore by tape backup, today that is no longer the case, more and more businesses are switching away from expensive tape units to hard drive based backups. This is a great option as it provides inexpensive, fast backups that can be moved offsite along with the ability to store rotating backups for a week of history to fall back on. You can also backup as bootable so in the event of disaster you can clone the bootable data onto new server and away you go.
Now when it comes to storing historical data that you need to access for years to come, we have a small problem. Back in the day you used to ‘archive’ your important work to CD at 700MB at pop, the along came DVD and DVD-DL at 4GB and 8GB, great. Now those capacities are falling behind the progress that file size and hard drive storage are making. This is where you need a larger solution to keep up with the times and sizes.
Blu-ray is perfect for this. Over the past few years we have been selling external USB2 Blu-ray burners for achieve this function, for some reason NZ importers and suppliers do not think this is a huge market and drives are hard to come by and expensive ($1000+) in some cases. There used to be a cost effective solution by LG but that has stopped, NZ suppliers cannot guarantee supply any more. LaCie used to make an $800 external unit but that has gone from NZ shores too.
So at Analogue we took the bull by the horns and are now directly importing high quality Blu-ray burners from an overseas vendor. Lead time on these is generally a week but we do always keep one in stock for warranty issues and urgent supply demand.
Great, now consumables, same story, only one or two importers are bringing in the DL 50GB disks, they are hard to come by and competition is high to order them. Along with our exclusive burner deal we have managed to secure a deal to supply 50GB Sony disks cheaper than anyone in NZ.
Sure the 25GB disks are easy to come by, but you may as well use the full capacity to see a return on the labour spent performing the archiving.
Contact us today to find out how Blu-ray can assist with your backup needs.
For all you budding retouchers out there here are a few examples of what not to do -
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com
Rumors are now surfacing from a ‘reliable source’ that the iPad presale starts 25 February.
Note the article mentions US only, so no joy for AU/NZ suppliers unless you are importing direct from the states.
BTW if you want one, contact us we can get them direct from the US.
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/02/rumor-the-ipad-to-go-on-presale-next-week/
Foxconn, an international supplier of high end electronic goods and components have a large, walled city patrolled by security guards that operates like something out of a 007 or a CIA movie. Secrets and need to know details abound and the workers are kept in such secrecy they have no idea what the final product is from the components they are working on. Read more here-
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61G3XA20100217
So if you have a certain model of MacBook that has suffered from a failed drive, you will be liable for a refund-
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook/hd/repairextension/
If your MacBook that has experienced these issues out of warranty, talk to an authorized repair centre-
Affected MacBook models
13-inch black and white MacBook models with the following processor speeds and hard drive capacities:
Processor speed – 1.83GHz, 2GHz, or 2.16GHz
Hard drive capacity – 60GB, 80GB, 100GB, 120GB, or 160GB
Microsoft have unveiled their Windows 7 phone. They have ditched the previous interface and started from scratch-
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/windows-phone-7-series-hands-on-and-impressions/
Samsung have also released their own smartphone-
http://wave.samsungmobile.com/
For this Tuesday I thought I would link a few funny stories around IT support-
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_stuptech.shtml
Apple have initiated a promotion to award the single person who purchases song number one billion, a US$10 000 iTunes gift card.
In the event of multiple purchases at the same time (yeah like thats not going to happen) a random winner will be chosen from that bunch.
Check out the counter here-
http://www.apple.com/itunes/10-billion-song-countdown/
Even though Apple have not released the iPad into the wild yet, Gecko gear Australia have released a teaser of their upcoming product line to resellers today.
The new iPad product line includes-
Gecko Profile Case for iPad
Gecko Guard for iPad
Gecko Pro-Sleeve for iPad
Gecko Glove for iPad
Gecko Neo-Sleeve for iPad
Pricing to follow…
Update, pricing here- http://www.geckogear.com/c/261627/1/ipad.html
For those of you who like to run a dual OS via a virtualisation setup on a Mac, you probably have one of two of the main products available to do this.
VMWare and Parallels desktop have been around for a while and are pretty mature and stable products.
I personally recommend Parallels to achieve dual OS functionality and use it myself for XP/Windows 7 needs.
The guys over at MacTech have written a comprehensive article explaining these two going head to head and their results, read on-
http://www.mactech.com/articles/special/1002-VirtualizationHeadToHead/index-001.html
Basically the short answer is Parallels is overall winner in all categories tested.
We are introducing a ‘tuesday roll on floor laughing’ category.
So for our official first one…
Here is how not to do a live webcast-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_MmlTxMXA&feature=player_embedded
Take control of your business workflow…
We at Analogue think that WorkFlowMax is so good, we are using it ourselves for our own workflow management.
If you are a large or small business and have a need for -
Timesheets
Job Tracking
Project Management
Quotes
Invoices
Collaboration
Reporting
Purchase Orders
Integration with accounting packages
iPhone interface
There are heaps of features added regularly for example-
https://my.workflowmax.com/help/Latest%20Changes%207%20February%202009.htm
These are the changes coming up in the next release.
You can also build your own custom reports-
https://my.workflowmax.com/help/report%20builder.htm
If you are interested in a free demo of this product’s capabilities, contact Ed on +64 21 506 887 to arrange a consultation, we are official resellers of WorkFlowMax.
Pricing is very cost effective in NZ$-
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