Against all odds Kimi Raikkonen won the Brazillian Grand Prix and his first 2007 F1 Drivers Championship. Congrats Kimi. More on how Lewis Hamilton blew his chances laters.
View Original Article.Silly iPhone Cover Flow
When you are browsing through a playlist in iTunes and click on Cover Flow view, you can view album art of all the songs just in that playlist. But on iPhone, the Cover Flow view shows album art of all the songs on my iPhone even when I am playing or browsing a playlist. It just doesn’t make any sense. BTW I am still on 1.02 firmware. Can anyone please confirm if this sillyness still exists in latest 1.1.1 firmware.
Lots of iPod and music related news from Apple yesterday which doesn’t make me buy another iPod, but I did order an iPhone.
View Original Article.Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. After reading that people are selling the invites on e-bay, I thought I will share the invites I got. The first 15 people to comment will get an invite.
View Original Article.iTunes and QuickTime instead of Window Media Player ?
I love iTunes and use it to manage my iPod’s and some video podcasts. I must admit here that many of my friends use Anapod explorer to manage their iPods, but I love iTunes (Smart Playlists). I use Quicktime when I need to open QT movies and most of the time I even forget that I have QT installed on my machine. But this author from Roughlydrafted goes little further and says Apple already managed to convince hundreds of millions of Windows users to download and use iTunes and Quicktime in place of Windows Media Player.
If Apple had not already managed to convince hundreds of millions of Windows users to download and use iTunes and QuickTime in place of the Window Media Player software that comes bundled with Windows, it might be hard to imagine why Windows users might want to use Safari.#
IMO it’s BULLSHIT. I admit that I am a Windows user all my life, but right now I am planning to switch to Mac very soon and join the club. I am also closely following all the Mac related websites in my feed reader and after reading couple of articles on the above mentioned site, anyone can guess what he is trying to tell. So here is my question to all of you.
Do you use iTunes and QuickTime instead of Window Media Player ?
Why I hate my Windows Mobile
With all the hype surrounding iPhone and after reading Apple’s get ready for iPhone page, I thought I will write how disappointed I am with my Windows Mobile phone (i-mate JASJAM running WM5) and Microsoft.
I am using Vista and the program to sync my Vista laptop with my mobile is Windows Mobile Device Center. According to Microsoft,
Windows Mobile Device Center helps you to quickly set up new partnerships, synchronize business-critical information such as e-mail, contacts and calendar appointments, easily manage your synchronization settings, and transfer business documents between your device and PC. #
Lets see how it syncs.
- Contacts: Without Outlook installed on your PC you cant sync your Windows Contacts.
- Calendar: Without Outlook installed on your PC you cant sync your Windows Calendar.
- E-mail: Without Outlook installed on your PC you cant sync your E-mail from Windows Mail.
Ok wait, if I install Outlook, I can sync these simple things from my PC to my mobile. But Outlook is not a free program and I don’t care how much it costs. The most expensive Vista already comes with
- Windows Contacts.
- Windows Calendar.
- Windows Mail (Replaced with Windows Live Mail).
Why these features exists in Windows Vista, if I cant sync those to my Windows Mobile. Ofcourse I can do these things directly on any phone not just Windows mobile phone. But check how some of these simple things can be done on iPhone using iTunes both on Mac and PC. And did I say iTunes is FREE. Lets see
iPhone syncs with the address book you already use on your computer ? Address Book or Entourage on a Mac, or Outlook or Outlook Express on a PC.#
iTunes already syncs iPod Contacts with Windows Contacts and I guess it will be same for iPhone.
iPhone uses iTunes to sync with the calendar application you already use on your computer ? iCal or Entourage on the Mac, or Outlook on a PC ? just like it does with your contacts.#
iTunes won’t sync iPod calendar with Windows Calendar currently but I wont be surprised if they allow iPhone to sync with Windows Calendar.
iTunes will make email setup on iPhone a breeze by automatically syncing the settings from email accounts stored in Mail on a Mac or Outlook on a PC.#
I am not sure if iTunes supports automatically syncing the settings from email accounts stored in Windows Mail. But I hope Apple will support those Vista features and beat Microsoft to it when iPhone and new iTunes are released on June 29th.
These are just some of the basic things any smartphone users want to sync with their computer and clearly Microsoft fails with their Windows Mobile. Here is a response from someone in Microsoft to a user who asked how to Sync Vista Windows Contacts to PPC in Windows Mobile newsgroups.
Currently, WMDC does not support sycning of Windows Mail and Windows Contacts. It is something that the feature team is considering for future releases. Currently, WMDC only supports syncing of data with Outlook.
Shame on you Microsoft and Windows Mobile team.
Safari on Vista
Woot.
MS Office ultimate 2007 for $75 offer
Microsoft says it really isn’t cheating to get Office ultimate 2007 for $75 outright in their new limited offer for Australian Uni students. To be eligible to participate, students must be enrolled at one of the Australian universities listed on their program site and have access to their university email inbox. They can choose from the following licence durations of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 software:
1. Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 (AUD$75): Unlimited licence; or
2. Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Subscription-1 year (AUD$25): 12 month licence from date of activation
Considering that MS Office Professional Academic 2007 version is $299.00 and MS Office Home & Student 2007 version is $245.00, this is one hell of a deal to ignore. All prices are in Australian Dollars.
Note: This offer is only available to University students of Australia at http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au/ and all purchases must be made by 11:59 PM (Sydney time) on May 28, 2007.
Extend Vista start menu search functionality with Start++
Start++ extends Vista’s already impressive start menu functionality with configurable key commands. Hit Win key and start typing like…
w apple – opens Apple’s Wikipedia page.
g apple – opens Google’s search page for Apple.
imdb cars – opens IMDb’s search page for movie Cars.
The list goes on. You can even search for music using keywords, then you can open the results in Media Player.
This method is faster than using Firefox and IE7′s inline search, which requires more steps to do some basic searches. Start++ is still in beta and expect some bugs to show up and its only for Vista. Check it out….
3 Column K2 0.9.5.1
One more, yes one more update. As usual I updated 3ColumnK2 with the latest SVN release (SVN 301). And most importantly the sidebars problem in IE6 is worked out. Thanks to Chris and Scott for helping me out on this. Going through the comments on my previous release, I don’t see any major problems. But please report If you find anything weird and I will try my best to look in to that. Keep checking the K2 support forums for any K2 related help.
Warning: 3columnk2 is no longer compatible with WordPress 2.0
With revision 291, K2 no longer supports WordPress 2.0. We’ll judge demand for a bugfixed v0.9.5. If it’s wanted badly enough we’ll do a branched version of r290 and fix bugs on that for a v0.9.5 final, otherwise we’ll move directly into 1.0. Let us know. #.
Download it from 3ColumnK2 page. Njoy.