the fantastic visionary director michel gondry will be appearing at the stockton street apple store in san francisco this monday january 7th 2008 at 7pm. gondry will be there to promote his new movie ‘be kind rewind’ and probably discuss how the film was edited using apple’s final cut pro software. i know this will be crowded but i’m gonna try to make it. all of this information via slashfilm (thanks /film!).
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a very interesting and informative article from tech author nicolas carr via his blog rough type titled Google, Apple and the future of personal computing. the article discusses the future of personal computing based on the developing partnership between google and apple. the future would have apple building the front end of sleek gadgets, devices, & handhelds that easily integrate with each other (phones, computers, etc) and google providing the back end of a networked supercomputer to provide the bulk of the data-processing might and storage capacity for the devices. it’s brilliant. what would such service and computer setup like this mean for the user? according to the article, computing will be cheap, highly energy efficient, very low maintenance, and it will be flexible. for more in depth info, please check out the original article (and the comments too).
avoid it! avoid it like the plague! do NOT upgrade your mac or pc to iTunes 7. stay with iTunes 6. if you still don’t like itunes 6, at least it works and won’t delete your music files. itunes 7 (7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, etc.) is absolutely wretched. on my mac, it’s as slow as molasses, crashes and/or freezes, and if you hook an ipod or ishuffle up to it, set aside a lot of time if you want to edit your playlist - if it will connect at all. this has been happening since late september with my automatic update to 7.0 - and with all subsequent upgrades and ‘bug fixes’ up to 7.0.2, these problems remain. itunes 7 is just incredibly buggy and it’s a shame apple is using it’s customer base as beta testers. here’s a direct link to an old version of 6.0.5 for mac online (link is 19.8 megs). and here are some tips on uninstalling itunes 7 here and here.
UPDATE: followed the great instructions on the macfixitforums and the rollback to iTunes 6.0.5 worked great!
the mighty iTunes mp4 protection has been cracked! from seidai software comes FairGame, software that will convert the songs you purchased on an iTunes store to an unprotected format - keeping all original metadata, artwork, lyric, and album information intact. fairgame has several pre-requisites before it can be used, like having iMovie HD installed and enabling ‘access for assistive devices’ in the universal access control panel. only works on a mac with OSX. but nice to see this happening. buying music from the apple store is like buying a CD that will only play on one specific type of player. kind of nuts, and also kind of a recipe for a monopoly. doesn’t everyone know that the archos media players are worlds better than any ipod (thanks tony!)?. i’m serious. linky via boingboing via thornography.
Also, adrienne sent in this report the other day from BBC, titled itunes copy protection cracked. as music downloaded from an itunes store can ONLY be played on an ipod, the code that prevents music downloaded from Apple’s iTunes store being played on any portable player other than an iPod has been “cracked”. this reverse-engineering has been done by Jon Lech Johansen. his company DoubleTwist hopes to distribute the cracking code to other media player producers. that is great news.