Apple Unveils Time Capsule
Apple revealed Time Capsule, a backup appliance that automatically and wirelessly backs up everything on one or more Macs running Leopard with Time Machine. Time Capsule is also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with a server grade hard disk.
It comes in two models: a 500 gigabyte model for just $299 and a 1 terabyte model for just $499.
Press Release: Apple Announces Time Capsule
Apple Unveils MacBook Air and Movie Rentals
It is no longer a rumour, Steve Jobs has unveiled the new ultra thin MacBook Air during his keynote session in MacWord 2008. The MacBook Air, is about three-quarters of an inch thick at its thickest point, small enough to fit in a manila envelope and priced at $1,799. It is thin because there is no CD/DVD drive.
Steve also revealed iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema.
Press Releases: Apple Introduces MacBook Air—The World’s Thinnest Notebook, Apple Premieres iTunes Movie Rentals With All Major Film Studios
Hands on with Skype on PSP
Checkout this video where Skype is running on PSP Slim.
Connect360 Connects Your Mac To XBox 360
Connect360 is a third party program that is capable of playing back your music and videos and viewing your digital photos from your Mac on your XBox 360. Now Connect360 has added DivX/XviD support, a codec that has been recently added to XBox 360.
Source: Connect360
Amazon Kindle
Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. As reported on the Amazon website, this device is now sold out despite scepticism about whether the device will prove popular.
One has to question how many units are actually on sale initially.
From Fox News review of the Kindle, “You can also bring your own documents along on the Kindle, though this ability is somewhat limited. By connecting it to a computer, you can transfer plain text files. If you want to bring PDFs or Microsoft Word documents, you have to e-mail them to Amazon, which converts them and sends them to the Kindle over the wireless network for 10 cents each. In my test, Portable Document Format files with text in columns were garbled in the conversion. The real reason I can’t recommend the Kindle is the battery issue. It’s quite possible that Amazon could apply some simple fix, like a software upgrade, because the battery life is much shorter than its components seem to warrant.”
Source: Amazon Reader Needs More Juice
