Apple posts iPod + iTunes timeline

It’s been almost a decade since Apple first introduced the iPod. Back in 2001, $399 got you a 5GB white iPod with monochrome back, a rotating wheel and a battery that lasted 10 hours in the size of a brick. It was badly received but caught attention soon enough. Its ease of use was second to none.

In 2010, $399 gets you a 64GB multi-touch mobile computing device with a 326ppi screen, dual video camera with high definition support and video calling, wireless internet and data sync, weighing 100 grams, works as an exercise monitor and a video editing console with a 40 hour battery.

That’s quite a jump in technology.

iTunes in the mean time went from a music jukebox to… a music jukebox with an online store that sells music, movies, tv series, audiobooks, and apps, a comprehensive podcast directory along with university lectures, and a music oriented social network.

What’s the rank on his collar?

Source: rabittooth.com

Ooh, IMDB had a redesign, when did this happen?

Newt was a Pixar movie that was supposed to have been released in 2012. Apparently it was canceled to make way for other projects, some say due to lack of strong story. Click image to open the full gallery on Pixar’s Facebook account.

Source: facebook.com

Switchlet

When it comes to web browsers I tend to stick to just two at a time and I keep same two browsers for quite some time, sometimes it can take years before a better one comes along or they cease to be as useful, functional and practical as I need them to be.

Anyway, if you’re the kind of person who not only changes browsers often but find the need to switch your default browser every now and then, Switchlet is an applet that lets you do just that easily.

The default browser handles all the URL actions you perform on other apps, for example clicking a link in Mail or in a Twitter app, or anywhere else. While this applet doesn’t give you the ability to change the destination browser for a particular link, it’s one step towards that and saves you from having to copy and paste.

On launch, it automatically places itself on the menu bar and lists all the browser apps it finds on your hard drive. It seems like a handy little app.

The downside is if you’ve already got a highly populated menu bar, this adds yet another resident and you can’t command+drag it to reposition the icon.

Switchlet works in Mac OS X 10.6.

Switchlet

finermac:

You can blog to Tumblr with myTumblr, a full-featured blogging client from MOApp Software Manufactory built just for Tumblr, entirely from the keyboard. A series of shortcuts let you pick which type of post you want to start (ex: Command+1 for Text, Command+5 for Link), and you can tab through all the fields like tags and the body of your post. When you’re done, Command+Shift+D ships the post off to Tumblr, just like it sends a message in Mail.

thedailywhat:

Star Wars-Themed Song Parody of the Day: “Midichlorian Rhapsody” — Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff manage to make the Star Wars prequels slightly less offensive by condensing them to six minutes, and setting them to the tune of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Off the duo’s collection of nerdy classic rock parodies, Grated Hits.

[theawesomer.]

Apple may have announced a brand new Apple TV but as far as its Indonesian online store goes, it’s still the old, silver & white Apple TV with the price slashed to Rp 1.6 million ($177) which presumably will be the price of the new version.

The link that’s supposed to go to the Asian AppleTV page now redirects to the iPod overview page instead with no listing of Apple’s latest black box anywhere on the site. Looks like the old AppleTV is still alive but only at the Indonesian Apple Online Store.