Tech Time

Apple announced on Tuesday that brand new versions of iLife and iWork are coming our way at the end of this month. Known as iLife ‘09 and iWork ‘09, these two new suites of software pack a nice round of enhancements. iPhoto gets new sorting and editing features with one click publishing to Flickr and Facebook. iMovie gets a host of powerful editing features, such as precision editor, picture-in-picture, and new themes. GarageBand adds some powerful new audio features and even the ability to take music lessons right within the program. iWeb gets more powerful features and integrated FTP support (finally). Keynote soups up and even allows you to control your ptesentation from your iPhone. Numbers finally gets more power, and Pages adds features such as full screen viewing. In addition, all three of the new iWork programs now publish to a new service called iWork.com. This new service allows users to easily publish and collaborate documents with other users.

Now you may be wondering, will iMovie ‘09 run on a G4? Well, it might, but I won’t be directly researching a way to find out since I’ve finally crossed over to Intel. However, if you find a way to run iMovie ‘09 on a G4 Mac, please let me know about it and I will post the information you find right here, as well as test it out on my old PowerBook. As of now, Apple is still pushing the G5/Intel requirements for iMovie ‘09 just like iMovie ‘08. Only time will tell.

iLife and iWork ‘09 should be available soon in an Apple Store or Apple Retailer near you!

http://redfern.me/ - I also have a new email address… joseph [at] redfern [dawt] com

Whatcha think? Is it a bit of an overkill…?

Nah.

As the title says, I need to remember to fix the problem with the title bar slipping below the post… It’s annoying! I might even switch themes… I’m pretty sure there is somthing pushing it down, But I dont know what?

Does anyone have any idea’s?

Thanks!

Now, I’ve avoided Vista for a couple of reasons - Mainly because XP would have run smoother than Vista (AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1.5GB DDR, 7600GS). However, What with the beta release of Windows 7 and all, I decided to jump from XP straight to Microsofts new OS - And I like it!

I’ve had one BSOD so far… But I’ve had it for around 5 days now. I’m not complaining, as it a Beta. The Interface is smooth, and allthough it uses a fair amount of Ram & CPU Power, It seems to run all of my programs as smoothly as XP did.

I was thinking of making a some kind of Virtualization guide - But there are lots out there, and it’s pretty easy to do.

Download the ISO Now!

Well, iCracked. I was going to hold off for a 32GB iPhone, but after seeing how long it would be before it arrives, that a 16GB model would hold me, and that the 32GB would cost me more than I’m willing to pay, iCracked. Yesterday, I went into the AT&T Store and took one home. I love it! It is extremely handy and is so useful. In fact, I’m typing this message using WordPress on my new iPhone! I opted in for unlimited texting since everyone wants to text me. I also use MobileMe, so all of my data stays wirelessly in sync. This is truly going to be a wonderful new device for me.

Till next time!

Nathan Parker

Recently I tried the Photo Booth feature on my Mac to do a weather report for WeatherBug, but I ended up looking more like the ghost of Christmas past. Check it out!

I probably need to get some chromakey greenwall material and put it behind me to cancel the interference. 

While it may look “neat”, I really do need to cancel the interference. I tried moving to a more solid backdrop and that did seem to work better. However, against a pretty solid white backdrop in an office I tested it in I had another bad case of interference. Strange. 

Maybe it’s just time to get a greenwall for it. What do you think? Any ideas?

Thanks!

Nathan Parker

President/CEO

Mallard Computer, Inc.

I can see that Joe finally kicked in the new version of WordPress. I really like it. I’ve been enjoying it on my blog for a few weeks now, especially since where my WordPress Blog is hosted the company updates my version of WordPress automatically. It’s a fresh new interface and seems really powerful. The new theme seems nicer as well and has quite the professional touch. Nice to see these new updates in place.

So, what does everyone think about the new WordPress version and themes? We’d love to have your feedback!

There was a job posting for Black: Second Mission posted on Criterions site, before it was hastily removed. Who cares - a BLACK sequel! Hell yes! Now, while none of my friends seemed to like, it none of them liked BioShock - which we all know is fabulous So I’m going to completely ignore their opinion. I own the Xbox Classic DLC of BLACK for Xbox 360, though unfortunately its sans achievements so it doesn’t really make me want to play. Can’t wait to get behind the wheel of a whole new BLACK though… would be a great online shooter!

So yes, we all knew it was coming in 2009. Just now it’s officially coming in 2009. Great, we have a year of future to look forward to. Still, I reckon it’s worth the wait, BioShock being THE BEST GAME EVAR and all.

Can you tell I like BioShock? Apparently BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams will infact be BioShock 1, since it’s a prequel. Confuzzled? Me too.

BioShock 2 Video!

Love you 2k Boston <3

So, with all these Guitar Hero releases coming, I wonder if they’ll ever realise “Hey, DLC would just be so much freaking easier!” alas, looks like you can spend £30-40 on GH:Metallica now, so you can replay their songs over and over again.

Check out the trailer, if you really love them that much. For me, I think this will be one I borrow from a friend, gamerscorewhore a little and then return.