The recently announced app store for Mac is the biggest news for the Mac OS X platform in the last couple of years. It is going to revolutionize the software buying experience and be come the standard way that people get and update software for their computer.…
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I recently purchased a plane ticket for a quick personal trip. During the online purchase process I was confronted with a new option that I had not seen. I was given the chance to pay more for my $230 ticket. For only another $28 I would get Group 1 boarding, the option to fly standby and a $75 savings on the $150 change fee should I want to change my flight.…
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We enjoyed ‘ Red’
Cool: no Orlando Bloom
It was better than I expected. I liked the superhero genesis story turned on its side. Nick Cage plays creepy well.
Now that the dust has settled on last week’s Apple announcements I think one product announcement deserves a second look. Apple AirPlay is the successor to AirTunes which let you broadcast music over WiFi to speakers plugged into an AirPort Express or AppleTV.…
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Mindless, plotless, loud, violent, fun popcorn movie.
The rain started before midnight and it poured for more than 12 hours. The weathermen can report on the number of inches of rainfall.
Great John Carpenter flick with campy 80’s synth soundtrack. Watching it now on my Apple TV. Kurt Russel is great as Snake Planski in this future 1997 where New York is a prison.
I see one big problem with Ping: it is based on the Apple ID. Currently, my family shares one Apple ID and iTunes account. This makes the Home Sharing functionality in iTunes actually work. Ping is much more personal. It makes music recommendations based on your listening.…
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Not bad for an imported dubbed computer animated movie based on a cartoon. Nick Cage, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Bill Nighy, Charlize Theron and Donald Southerland lent their voices to the production. There were plenty of scifi references that made the dialog fun.
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