In an effort to steal Andy’s thunder and copy his blog post verbatim, I have plenty of Joost invites too! I guess the “private” beta period has ended so if you wanna Joost invite and you’ve got some decent hardware (OS X -or- Vista) drop me a comment and I’ll get one sent out in a jiff. Only 997 more invites left so hurry! haha.
Update: Joost is now signing on new content providers!!! Check TechCrunch.
What’s Joost?
Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.
The Apple iPhone release is only a few weeks away now and I can’t wait to drop Verizon Wireless like a hot potato and jump on over to AT&T (used to be Cingular). For too long I’ve put up with ridiculously high mobile phone bills and not too much bang for the buck. Besides, with the release of the iPhone I’ll no longer have to carry around my Treo & my Nano.
All signs still point to an on-time product release in mid-to-late June. The iPhone comes in a 4GB and 8GB model. It’s soooo purrty.
From MacRumors:
As always, Apple didn’t reveal any information on new products, but was reportedly “confident the [iPhone] will ship on time with volumes to meet customer demand”.
The analysts expects “an innovative method of in-store activation and in-store displays for the iPhone, along with customer-friendly billing that could tie customers further into the Apple online store.”
My bread & butter application for file transfers on Mac OS X has always been Panic Software’s “Transmit“. It’s a great dual-pane SCP/FTP client and lets me live-edit my files on the server and view them in real time. Anyways, I stopped by their site the other day and noticed there latest app, Coda 1.0. Coda’s a mash-up of Transmit, CSSedit, terminal, with a few eBooks thrown in the mix. Aside from the CoreImage eye candy on the site page (reference the image provided) it’s actually pretty nice. I don’t know if I’m willing to stray from my current workflow (TextMate & CSSEdit 2.5) but its definitely a contender in the web publishing world.
From Panic:
So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, running queries in Terminal, using a CSS editor, and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,†we realized. “And much cooler.â€
Just stumbled across the latest online backup option for Mac users, and it’s cheap too! At 5.00 a month for unlimited backups, Mozy is a silent background process that runs independantly of its menu bar icon. A free account will get you 2 gigs of storage, and for just under 60.00 a year you can get unlimited backups of all your data. What’s more, Mozy does realtime blowfish file encryption before establishing a 128 bit SSL tunnel to thier servers in the sky. Initial backup times can be pretty lengthy but afterwards they utilize a differential backup scheme — and since it is running in the background anyways, just set it and forget it.
I currently backup everything weekly to my terabyte array anyways, but its nice to have an affordable off-site solution. In the event of catestrophic loss, they’ll even send you a series of DVD’s with all your files on it — for a small fee.
Update: While Mozy seems like it’s a great deal up-front, I’m a little leary now after almost 10 days of uploading. I wanted to upload all the contents of my home drive (190GB) but with all the connection resets and restarts I’m getting NOWHERE fast…
