MacBreak 58 Macworld 2007: More Pro Tools and Software with Alex

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GBTV #0230 Blooper Special | GeekBrief.TV

GBTV #0230 Blooper Special | GeekBrief.TV
Cali does all the Web site stuff, including uploads.  I'm not sure I'll get this right, but my fingers are crossed (making it hard to type).

I've been saving bloopers for awhile.  Some of these are pretty fresh and some are from back at the old studio.

The one that fascinates me most is when we were trying to pronounce Jack Kerouac.  It's fascinating because the pronunciation in our heads is so clear and obvious.  When we try to say his name out loud, it just doesn't work.

Cali appreciates all your encouragement in the comments.  She made it through a couple of movies yesterday, but mostly she's just sleeping.

(Neal)

Future phones could bend, stretch and change colour (+photos)

Future phones could bend, stretch and change colour (+photos)
Nokia has unveiled its new Morph concept - showing future mobile devices that could easily bend and stretch to suit different needs. Morph is a joint nanotechnology project between Nokia and Cambridge University currently on show...

Yahoo! Mail Beta Adds RSS

Yahoo! again demonstrates its facility with RSS by adding feeds to the beta Mail which is still in restricted distribution. (Original review of it here.) Yahoo! Mail takes advantage of the Outlook-styled interface to create an intuitive RSS package. It's preloaded with selected feeds, and, remarkably, that selection appears personalized. I'm waiting for confimration of this, but it seems that the preset feeds are taken from profile information and personal-interest choices in Yahoo! 360. Naturally, that information wouldn't be available for every user in a wide rollout of the new Yahoo! Mail, but millions of people have Yahoo! IDs that contain a bit of profiling, so perhaps Yahoo! plans to mine every bit if personalizable information it can get. I'm all for it. This level of integration makes for a satisfying experience from the first click.



Of course, you can add feeds. Yahoo! provides a recommended list of about 25 feeds, asnd users can specify an RSS address. NOTE: Users should be able to paste in a Web-page address also, and the feed reader should have the smarts to find the feed; Yahoo! has started a tradition of RSS invisiblity in My Yahoo!, and it should be carried over into Mail.

Somewhat oddly, Yahoo! presents the feed in a three-pane view: feed list on the left, feed items in the middle ... and nothing in the right-hand vertical pane. I expected the source page for the feed item to appear in that pane, and was disappointed to see Yahoo! opening a new browser window to display that page. that system works best on some monitors and resolutions, granted. I'd like to have a view choice. Put the source page in the same window as the feed item, and you're really starting to emulate a desktop newsreader. Since Yahoo! mail (beta) emulates a desktop mail program, this would make sense.

Good start! Excellent start. Yahoo! is going to have one rowdy, boat-rocking launch when the new Mail emerges from beta.

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O2: iPhone fastest selling, highest satisfaction

O2 today revealed that the iPhone is its fasting selling device for the UK, noting that the device has helped it achieve 9.5-percent revenue growth during the final quarter for 2007. While O2 did not provide specific sales numbers for the device alone, it said that the iPhone led its strongest quarter on record, adding 483,000 customers and 276,000...

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Simon Hendery : When the customer wants answers

Simon Hendery : When the customer wants answers
If your're like me, when the need to communicate with a large service organisation arises you probably think twice before sending off an email query. Email may have revolutionised personal and business communications, but it has...