Daring Fireball: Digging Deeper
And so what makes Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” commercials so jaw-droppingly bad is that they’re not countering Apple’s message, but instead they’re reinforcing it. That the spots themselves jump between dozens of different people who “are” PCs, that the spots make a point of emphasizing that there are a billion Windows-running PCs worldwide, this only emphasizes that “PC” is not a brand name but a generic.
- John Gruber
Transform Windows Look to Mac - FlyakiteOSX.com.
Slows my old Gateway laptop down a little too much; very cool though.
Today Microsoft released Microsoft Suface. I saw this technology demonstrated by Jeff Han in September 2006 and since then I have wanted this technology.
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.
Give me this technology in a 42″ desktop surface running Mac OS X and I would be quite content (for a while).
This past July, I rebuilt an older PC as a media center. The machine now resides in my entertainment center as an entertainment hub and file server, storing all of my music, videos and pictures.
My Media Center PC sports a P4 2.0 GHz processor, 1 G of RAM, 550 GB of storage, a Hauppauge TV tuner and a ATI All-In-Wonder 9600. It is currently running on Windows XP Media Center Edition. I must have done something right in building the machine; it’s been running well for the last 24 days without a reboot.
I am quit happy with the machine right now, aside from the noise if nothing else is on. However, Lifehacker (one of my favorite reads) has posted an tour on rolling your own DVR and media server with MediaPortal.
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