Another Macworld is just days away and the rumours are flying. Who knows what Steve has up his mock turtleneck sleeve. It ain’t a Mac Pro (they announced the awesome 8-core beast last week), and it sure isn’t a Bermuda-ready iPhone (sniff …). Like MacRumours and others, Breezeblog is hoping for an ultralight touch screen laptop. But judging from the banners around the Moscone Centre venue in San Francisco, something major in the wireless/phone arena may be on the cards.
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Coming soon to iTunes: movies for rent. Apple and Fox have apparently reached an agreement that will see Fox movies available for limited time rental as they are released on DVD. The movies will be available for viewing on iPods and iPhones too. The move will heat up the growing online movie competition with Amazon and Netflix and likely give a boost to Apple’s neat but largely overlooked Apple TV device. Rumours are that movies would rent for about $2.99 for 30 days – although Bermuda users will likely be hamstrung by the usual international copyright rules if they try to download them. [Surely at some point in this digital instant gratification revolution, the whole international copyright law infrastructure is going to have to be completely overhauled, right?] Incidentally, one movie rental service worth checking out is Jaman which has a growing selection of excellent quality indie and international movies that play on Mac, PC or on your TV via Apple TV (and a little hack).
Ah, what would life be like without YouTube? Relive the best YouTube moments of 2007, courtesy of Wired’s Top 12 and Time’s Top 10 Viral Videos. Neither list, though, includes the Good Doctor Ewart’s election announcement – surely an historic internet first? My favourite is probably the inmates of a Filipino prison who do mass choreographed videos of 1980s Pop like Michael Jackson’s Thriller [see above]. Only those inmates in drag are permitted to not wear prison uniforms! For more of their bizarre moves, check out their blog.
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