Is FireWire on its way out?

An article from camcorderinfo.com is showing a drastic decline in the use of IEEE1394 or firewire in the computer industry over USB 2.0. According to the article, “IEEE 1394 is expected to reach its peak in 2008 and gradually go
extinct by the year 2009. Taking its place is USB 2.0, which has a 100%
saturation in the PC market, versus 33%-and-dropping for 1394.” This comes as sad news to many as fans of FireWire know that, compared to USB, it has a much faster sustainable data transfer rate even though it has a slightly slower top speed.

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Testing some new stuff…

So I have decided to give this Firefox thing a shot. I know, I know, “Firefox, thats like really old, how have you not used it.” Well the truth is that I did use Firefox exclusively in my Windows days, but with the switch to mac, I was just so satisfied with Safari that I said WTF? But anyway, I have been using the Songbird beta a little bit (more on that soon, hopefully) and I was reminded about some of the nice things that come from Mozilla products, such as extensions (from which I am posting now).

Anyway, I have decided to give Firefox a one-week exclusivity to see how I feel about it compared to my beloved Safari. Updates will be coming soon (once again, hopefully, I am only human after all).

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New Stuffs

For those who don’t know, Apple announced some cool new ipods today, check them out at www.apple.com !

iPowerHour for iPhone

Great News, the single most useful app has been released for the iPhone, iPowerHour! iPowerHour takes your drinking games on the road by playing a random one minute clip from your iPhone’s music library every minute for an hour. For those who know what power hour is, this should come across as the single most important app for your phone. For those who don’t know what power hour is, grab a 30 rack of cheap beer, read this, then fire up installer.app, install iPowerhour, and get your drink on.

Social Flutterby

So my new big thing is social networks, im quite obsessed with them, even if I am a little ADD and I forget to post anything. But anyway, I recently got back into twitter and am bout to try iLike, a new music based social network. Anyway, to see my brains lunacy at work,check out this screenshot after the break

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Sorry for the post delay over the past weekend, I have been quite busy. Overall there hasn’t been too much for news this past weekend, at least nothing important enough to break me away from the jack and blow. Anyway, so I quit caffeine today, and its a little painful. As I sit here I have one of the worst migraines I have ever experienced, but in the end it will hopefully be worth it.

iPhone Gets Unlocked

7 weeks, 6 days, and 6 hours. Thats how long it took to unlock the iPhone. A group of hackers from the iPhoneSIMFree.com website have been working diligently since the release of the phone to unlock it, making it usable on any GSM network and, as of 12am today, they have succeeded. The unlock, which apparently only takes a couple of minutes, will completely free your phone from the shackles of at&t as well as keep its freedom even if the phone is updated via iTunes. While I have yet to try the hack (I am perfectly fine with at&t), the trustworthy folks at Engadget have posted their results along with a video, proving its real. This is great news for T-Moble fans and anyone who lives outside the United States, including France, Germany, and Vermont.

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Beer of the Week

Ok, so I’m going to try a few new things on this blog, and one of those things is weekly regular posts. One thing I will do is called OH Snap! and it will release every Friday, so you should see the first one of those this friday. The other weekly update will be a weekly Beer recommendation. For anyone who knows me well, you will know that I love beer, all kinds of beer. Because of this I have decided to give a recommendation every week (hopefully every wednesday) based on what I have been drinking.

This weeks beer is going to be Dos Equis. Dos Equis is a mexican style beer which, unlike Corona, doesn’t suck. The particular style that I like is the Lager Especial which, while lacking any distinct greatness, has some really great flavor and is perfect for a hot summer day. So if you’re looking for a beer that will quench your thirst and doesn’t taste like water (cough, Bud Light, cough) than give it a shot. And always remember, just say no to corona.

Sony announces cool new PS3/PSP products, Gives USA the finger.

For those who don’t know, this week is the Leipzig Games Convention and the announcements are flowing. Among these announcements are some new cool GPS and IM features for the PSP and, coolest of all, a new Video On Demand service for the PS3. Many of these new features seem really cool but, like many of Sony’s more interesting products, there is no release date or even release window for the US. While sony hasn’t stated that it won’t be out in the states, this wouldn’t be the first interesting product that hasn’t made the trip (heres looking at you PSP GPS adapter).

For this story and more LGC07 coverage Visit Joystiq

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