Apple responsible for 25% of US music sales

August 20th, 2009 • 2 comments Apple, Blog, Other

If you needed more proof that the music cd is dying and record companies should accompany the the shift in consumer preferences then maybe the next amazing numbers by the NPD Group should convice you:

* Apple is generating one quarter of all US music sales (25%). And Apple is also responsible for 69% of all online music sales.

* 65% of all music sold during 2009 are still in CD format.

Times are changing. Apple managed to stay ahead of the game by thinking forward and not fighting change. But as the music industry is now paying more attention to the situation, the TV and newspaper mediums are starting to face the new dilemmas from digital distribution and most are choosing to fight the trend. Let’s see how well they’ll do.

Wallace & Gromit Grand Adventures

May 29th, 2009 • Comments Off Apple, Blog, Games, Other
Tags: Games, xbox 360

Traditional point and click adventure games are a dead genre but some publishers still try to push games with a more modern interface and storytelling aproach.

Today I bought Wallace & Gromit Grand Adventures on Xbox Live and it’s pure fun. Go try the demo or look at the trailer, it’s worth it.

P.S: And don’t forget that Bionic Commando:Rearmed is selling for 5$ on discount.

turn your netbook into a mac?

January 12th, 2009 • Comments Off Apple, Blog, Web
Tags: Apple, mac, netbook, osx

Netbooks seem to be the new craziness in technology these days, stores everywhere are selling them, manufacters have upgraded the offer to almost every color, shape, configuration and size available and portable bandwidth is also contribuiting for more ubuiquity.

Apple’s own solution to the ultimate portable machine is still the Macbook Air, which some people may say is a bit pricey, so I guess it was just a matter of time for someone to hack Apple’s OS X into a netbook and try to obtain a cheap Apple machine.

Boing Boing has a handy chart for those who want to adventure into building your own hackintosh. The procedure doesn’t seem very easy and not everything may work without some tinkering with the console and installing aditional drivers.

If you’re interested, go take a look at the tutorials and Boing Boing’s Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart and tell us how it went. :)

Fluid on Mac

August 29th, 2008 • 4 comments Apple, Blog, Web
Tags: applications, mac, web2.0

If you’re a Mac user and an avid consumer of web applications (Flickr, Delicious, Basecamp, Netvibes, Gmail, etc, just to name a few) then you’ll problably be happy to install Fluid.

Fluid is a small application for the Mac which enables you to create Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) for your most used web applications. That means they will run as if they were a stand alone application on your Mac with it’s own desktop icon, menubar, etc.

You can even leave it the dock for easy access to your app, so give Fluid a try, it’s free. There’s even a Flickr Group full of icons for your dock.

Note: If you’re using Windows I guess you could try Prism from Mozilla Labs.