Mr. Mac Geek

As you probably know, Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld San Francisco just ended, and as you would expect there is plenty to talk about. First of all iLife ‘06 will, as rumored, include a 6th app for web publishing, blogging, etc. called iWeb. iLife ‘06 also included new versions of iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand all of which are designed for casting of some type (photocasting, videocasting and podcasting). But I won’t torture you any longer; yes there were Intel Mac announcements. The first was an Intel revision to the iMac which is 2-3x faster than the old ones. The second Intel release was a PowerBook replacement known as the MacBook Pro. It runs at 4-5x the speed of the old PowerBooks. The only thing about these MacBooks that I don’t like is that the only available screen size is 15.4″. Go check out www.apple.com for all the info.

The Intel bunny suit guy has been seen on the Macworld stage, more soon!

iTunes has just added to their previously pathetic collection of TV shows. Now in addition to their ABC hits and Disney favorites iTunes also sells episodes of NBC’s “Law & Order”, “The Office”, “Surface”, “The Tonight Show”, “Late Night”, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “Dragnet”, “Adam-12″ and “Knight Rider” shows as well as Sci-Fi’s “Battlestar Galactica” and USA’s “Monk”. I can’t wait to start wasting my money on these shows so I’m going to go now.

Mac OS X Tiger boxes now ship with the 10.4.3 update in the box. This makes installing or reinstalling Tiger simpler because you don’t have to download the update separately. Just thought I’d let you know, see for yourself here.