Google Wave, in a Week?

Well, I never thought I would see the day but according to the google article HERE the wave preview will finally be released next week. As I have all of my email addies on the waiting list I hope to be able to give this a spin soon and let you know what I think of it =P.

For those that don't know what Wave is I recommend going to the google wave site and watching the 1.5 hour long vid (yes it really does take that long to show everything this piece of kit can do). If you are way to impatient to watch 2 Google Geeks text each other across the room though you can go HERE and get a run down of the highlights of how this will change the way email, photosharing, txting, IMing, doc writing and every ruddy other thing under the sun will be changed by this.

On another note I think it was awfully nice of google to offer chrome frame for all you poor IE sods out there. This delightful pluggin is used to push IE (forcibly) into the modern Java and HTML5 world. Just think about it Explorer masses, it will almost be like using a decent browser, yet still let you have your clunky, ungainly, virus infesting web portal of the 90's (this is assuming it lets you on the net at all and doesn't block your pop-up or tell you the site is a phishing site or any other host of messages that a person with half a brain does not require to navigate the web scam/virus free). The thing is, Google doesn't want your poor, uninformed browser choice to make them look bad so they are playing nice with you for now. In the end though I think Google' well played download button says it all:




Notice the pleading tone coming from the "Or, you can use one of these (functional/quick/customizable/not built by a block head) browsers" -amplification added for those using IE; and yes I know Safari doesn't customize well either but...

Peering into iTunes 9

Hands on: iTunes 9 refinements cool, but hard to find - Ars Technica

Ok, so rabid Apple fan-man(a weak sauce way of weaseling out of being called a fanboy) I may be but usually I know longer put much weight on iTunes revisions. Half the time they are nothing more than instructions for working with the newest jeweled iPhone and the other half of the time I really just am not sure what they do. iTunes does not join in these lackluster additions to Apples management software. I highly recommend the Ars article but for those of you lazy (like myself) here is an oober recap of why you should love iTunes.

New Library Structure

Now things are finally in their proper place for a media library (no longer just music). Your iPhone apps will be in the right place, all the extras from your movies will be with their parent file (more on extras later) etc etc. Make sure you read the ars article as it tells you how to enable this on old library files (like what 99% of you already have from past versions of iTunes).

Theres a watch folder
That does the same thing as you going to File->import to library..... um, woot? (Just thought I'd include it as all the tech blogs are spastically happy over it, guess it would be good for shameless torrent pirates =P.

Home Sharing

I think this pic says it all, i have a imac and air, this rocks =). Just so you know this works with all mp3's and other none iTunes purchases you already have (don't know why not a single other article mentions that). Does this sync star ratings? I don't know and am too lazy at present to find out.

Extras
Finally we get all the deleted scenes I have given up for the instant gratification of movie time. Oh true, now there are LP albums too.... (woot woot, 1. record labels, do you honestly think we care about what a MUSIC artist, likely on drugs at the time, squiggles on there cover? 2. Do you honestly think this means iTunes will bend you over any less?). I don't know if this is news or not either but I noticed that now all movies, not just hd come with digital 5.1 which dvd has had for ever but... progress is progress and movie studios, take bending over lessons from the music folks now because this is right where iTunes was with them 4 years ago.
iPhone Syncing
Um, now you can organize your 150 apps over 9 screens on the comp instead of in the easy multitouch interface of the iphone itself.... at which point you will promptly forget just where you put your various and assundried fart and baby shaker apps. Just repeat to yourself you have OS 3.0 with finder and you really should relax...

So thats it, iTunes 9 pretty, mostly dead steve jobs hates me and won't give me an iPod with camera and sigh..... he still makes the best kit out there.... now to play some wii sports resort... (hey, its a white, pretty box too, i got confused)

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Pogue on the new iPod Nano: Smash hit!

I have to say, nothing really does say "child-like wonder" like the expression on smurfy pogues face in the above god-father-esc shot from FSJ. Lol, Pogue has just been hilarious since SL came out saying how wonderful it was... even though it crashed repeatedly... oh yeah, and he is selling 2 books on it. Personally, if the same child-like wonder inducing system was only being built to provide architecture improvements, under the hood, out of site and there is literally only one freaking button to install the new version, how many smurf books does it take to hold someone hand through the ordeal? Should that person even have a mac? I don't mean to sound elitist here, but really, ok I am (I have a mac after all)...

BTW: I am now posting into facebook as well as blogger.... muhahahaha you can never escape.... unless you hit the hide button, but really that wouldn't be very nice.