Jason Snell of Mac World reviews the Netflix Instant Watching service for Intel Macs.
As pointed out by the article the service isn’t available to all Netflix users yet. They’re slowly rolling it out. Since I’m both not a Netflix customer and a U.S. resident I can’t try them out for myself. The review gives us all a glimpse though.
So with Netflix offering instant gratification will we see a contender to iTunes? Don’t think so, not until they improve their instant watching catalog. At least that’s what I got from the review.

Finally I was able to score some credits for my iTunes account. I had 2 cents last week and through some kind friends, I was able to ask them to buy some iTunes Pre-paid cards for me to top of my account. After redeeming my iTunes cards and with $40 ($25 + $15) in my account, I then proceeded to scour the catalog of movies to rent from iTunes.
My dad’s boss was in town for awhile and while having dinner with him, he recommended that I try to see “Ratatouille”. I’ve seen most Pixar movies except for this one so …read more

So let’s have some respite from iPhone news, views and whatnots. You want a new Mac but can’t afford to pay the sticker price or maybe you’re just smart and want to get value for money, either way Apple has provided a way for you to get Macs for less. Enter the Apple refurbished products.
I read this article at Mac Talk discussing this very topic. This got me thinking too. Are refurbished Macs worth it. If you’re going to spend hard earned money on a Mac, is refurbished a wise decision? Most of the time the answer is a resounding …read more

Darn! This always happens to me. This entry is a day late because I was stuck at the hospital without anyway to read and blog about this significant news. Well better late than never.
It started with this and now Apple and EMI announce DRM free music. Nice. For $1.29, 30 cents more than the standard music tracks on iTunes you can download DRM free music that’s recorded at a higher 256kbps AAC bit rate. Apple says it’s indistinguishable from the original recording. DRM versions of the tracks will still be available for 99 cents.
True to Apple fashion, they make …read more

And in other news, the guys from Will It Blend try it out on an old iPod. Out with the old, in with the new they say.
And hey, seeing what’s inside that iPod (did you see the smoke?), maybe the guys from Greenpeace have it all right from the start. All that cadmium and nickel and mercury …

Alright! This is indeed the battle of the century. On the left corner, wearing the signature iPod-white shorts is the .Mac account, a value-added PIM service and backup system exclusive to .Mac members.
On the right corner, we have Plaxo, the world’s most popular PIM synchronizing tool that’s compatible with almost all OS platforms.
But for today, we’re going to take a look at the lighter side of these two web tools as we see which one does it best when it comes to … greeting cards (!!!) An integral part of our online social life is remembering special ocassions and …read more

There’s a great article over at BusinessWeek Online on the partnership of the iPod-running shoes team up between Apple and Nike.
Nike CEO Mike Parker had more to say when it came to the iPod integration, “Obviously, a lot of that was already happening … If the shoe and the iPod could talk to each other, what would they say and what’s the potential of that connection? We got the creative side from both companies and we started exploring.”
I know! How about going the next step and trying to fit a Mac mini into a pair of running shoes? Dual core …read more

My good friend Wins showed this pretty recent journal entry of a well-read tech support dude Adam Knight from Texas. He talks about life inside AppleCare, his four year stint with customer support and most importantly – how he saw … US.

I can’t talk about the ills of AppleCare and support jobs with talking about the good. I mean, obviously, if things were completely bad I simply would have quit long ago. There are people that appreciate us, and there are good customers that call in a lot that we know by name, or even voice. There are the great …read more

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in something’s main function that we forget it can do other things. So I’m going out on a limb here and get all excited about something that everyone might already know about, but did you know Google is a calculator as well?
Accidents can be good things sometimes. I was typing up a review for my magazine and made a mistake with a spec and accidentally typed an asterisk within a long number. Then I highlighted the number to erase it and accidentally copied it instead and forgot all about it. A little later, intending …read more

My country is cell phone crazy.
The telecommunications industry is big business here; cell phones sell like hotcakes, and everyone has one. Democratized pricing, provider subsidy and creative budget service plans enable people from all walks of life and all income brackets (and even those without an income) to own a phone. Having the latest and greatest phone is a mark of success and a guaranteed status symbol – casually and nonchalantly whip out a new one in public and heads will turn.
A consequence of this is that everyone texts everyone else anything and everything all the time. It’s cheap and …read more