MC2 Post 623: TECH Anniversaries

TECH Anniversaries

iPod, PSP, Wii, and YouTube's 

Charlie and Lady GaGa

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iPod October 23, 2001
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1st Gen iPod is a little over 8 years Old
Friday, October 23, 2009 10:55PM

Apple is so old in the MP3 player market that its already the iPod’s 8th anniversary. 

Eight years ago, Apple announced the first iPod, a clunky brick with a click wheel. 

The original iPod held only 1,000 songs, weighed 6.5 ounces and synced songs through Firewire, which took a while. 

Now, iPod Classics can hold 40x the amount of music and videos than the original, revolutionizing the way we interact with our music libraries.

Link: http://blog.ziggytek.com/2009/10/23/ipod-celebrates-its-eighth-anniversary-apple-not-so-happy/

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Sony PSP March 24, 2005
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Happy 5th Anniversary PSP!

Link: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/24/happy-5th-anniversary-psp/

Link PSP Blog: http://blog.us.playstation.com

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Google's YouTube February 16
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On YouTube's 5th anniversary, 

video of 'Charlie' reigns

February 16, 2010, 5:35PM

In honor of the fifth aniversary of YouTube, here's the video-site's 
most-watched video of all time. As of this date, the video, 

"Charlie Bit My Finger --Again!," 

has been viewed more than 160 million times.

Link: http://blog.syracuse.com/indepth/2010/02/on_youtubes_5th_anniversary_vi.html

Well Yeah, but that was A Whole Month Ago...

Lady Gaga Tips the Scales of 

YouTube Views to Over a Billion...

One Billion online views for Lady Gaga

According to Visible Measures, an internet video tracker, the singer’s videos from the album have attracted more than one billion hits, making her the first artist 
to achieve this phenomenal target. And yes, these figures do not include the statistics for the song ‘Telephone’. They announced this startling news on the 24 March, 2010.

Link: http://www.planetradiocity.com/musicreporter/news.php?newscatid=1&newsid=2213

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Article on YouTube's success in April's WIRED Magazine, where 

it also 

has a very lengthy article on how iPAD will change everything.

It's Anniversary will be April 3, 2010.

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Stay iTuned.

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Nintendeo Wii Nov 19, 2007
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Published Nov 18, 2007

Tomorrow marks the 1 year anniversary for the Wii !!(I think) Hopefully Nintendo will realize this and give us a great VC game and maybe

something extra special on the shop channel. (Like a new channel, or maybe a secret wiiware game that wasnt announced oooh). Any

ideas on what they have planned? if anything?

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The Price of Publishing: 

10,000 a gallon for Printers Ink?

Wis. college says new e-mail font will save money

A Wisconsin college has found a new way to cut costs with e-mail — by changing the font.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font on its e-mail system from Arial to Century Gothic. 

It says that while the change sounds minor, it will save money on ink when students print e-mails in the new font.

Diane Blohowiak is the school's director of computing. She says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one.

That could add up to real savings, since the cost of printer ink works out to about 

$10,000 per gallon.

Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hxYdUmrxaBDpCplWZdQgyOKE7nOgD9ELP2M80

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Wingman Keeping an I on Tech Anniversaries Too !!!

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MC2 Post 599: Ubuntu is Officially "A Little Less Human."

Ubuntu is Officially "A Little Less Human."

Like Tiger's "Apology",  it should have been Tweeted First.

It (Ubuntu), was You Tubed, by  Mark Shuttleworth, 

Ubuntu's Founder, Yesterday.

Unfortunately there is no info on the new theme, called Lucid 

User Interface (and there is no Artwork drop) 

A freeze will take place on March 4, 

so we should see it in action very soon!

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Also Tucked into the Linux' Files:

How To Stream Videos (Any Format) To Your iPhone [Linux w/ WINE].

Lifehacker Link: http://lifehacker.com/5473128/

The original How-To was posted on LifeHacker (A Great Site by-the-way) and 

using Air Video, Free from the App Store.  Of Course it was posted to 

work Only On PC or Mac's Desktops, naturally.

Someone tried it on Linux (Ubuntu) and used Wine 

(to take the place of windows) and it Worked there too!

Here's the Link to the How-To on Linux.

Link: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/how-to-stream-videos-any-format-to-your.html

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Wingman Likes Hackers that keep pushing the envelope.

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Do You Know What Cyberpunk Means, Punk?

Sun 05 Jul 2009 09:33:14 AM PDT
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Do You Know What Cyberpunk Means, Punk?

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Link: http://www.macworld.com/article/141500/2009/07/neuromancer_25.html

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Neuromancer WIKI

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer

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History: July 1. 1984, 25 years ago, Wlliam Gibson wrote a book called

Neuromancer that ran the table at the 1984 Science Fiction Awards

and Won the HUGO Award, the Phillip K. Dick Award and the Nebula Award.

The Book and the Awards said Gibson Created a new genre of Science Fiction

called: CyberPunk.


Gibson does NOT particularly like that phrase, but hey it's a good

tag-line that doesn't fit anybody better.

And while Gibson's modern prose is anchored in Present Time his

depiction of cutting edge Technology and Hackers (Good and Bad) is still razor sharp.


Check him out

He IS a Must Read.

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And in deference of the Terminator Picture I used above,

take this to chew on...

The Top 15 Geek Movies of All Time:

Link: http://www.zaphu.com/2008/02/19/15-top-oscar-movies-for-nerds/

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Wingman

And Yeah, I know Terminator Was based on Harlan Ellison's Ideas...

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I also found a Cool Clip at YouTube (a great resource, by the way) where in 2006.

Harlan was giving out the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and

still being Harlan at the podium.

Linked Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSwmzJSPCE

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The Tina Turner Song Clip at the Video Bar,

Top-Right is still there

because I Like that song.

And I think We Do Need Another Hero,

so There.

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