Disney to Offer Free Shows Online

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 11 April 2006 09:45:00 AM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

propabc Walt Disney Co. plans on rolling out a new addition to its Web site on April 30 where viewers can watch Disney and ABC shows for free. According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), The Disney theater will feature commercial-laden television shows like Desperate Housewives and Lost that you can watch online, but not download to your computer.

Viewers will be able to fast forward and rewind shows, but won't be able to skip past the commercials. The service will start with ABC programming available through the ABC Web site, and Disney Channel shows will be added to the Disney Web site some time in June. Disney's Soapnet channel will also start offering online shows on its Soapnetic Web site starting April 17.

Disney already offers ABC and Disney Channel programs on Apple's iTunes Music Store (iTMS), but this new venture isn't likely to impact sales there. Although Disney theater shows will be free, and cost US$1.99 each at the iTMS, the free programming can't be downloaded and played on an iPod. Viewers on-the-go will still have to purchase their shows.

The DVD resellers are the most concerned about Disney's new service. Companies like Wal-Mart fear that fewer consumers will purchase TV programming on DVD. Affiliate stations are also concerned, complaining that their revenues will be undercut even more than they already are by the iTMS.

In the long run, however, the Disney theater may have an impact on Apple. Disney hopes to eventually add the ability to download its programs for a fee. One pricing idea includes offering add-free shows for $1.99, just like the iTMS, and versions with fewer ads than the free streaming offerings for $0.99.

There is no word yet on whether or not Disney's new service will require a specific Web browser, or if it will be limited to only one operating system for viewers.

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Stop The Madness!!

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 11 April 2006 09:10:00 AM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

boot-camp-mac-xp-lg OK... here it is. I'm absolutely sick to death of hearing all the talk about getting Windows to run on a Mac. How is this news worthy? And more importantly, WHO CARES?!?!?

If I wanted to run Windows, I wouldn't be a Mac user. I use a Mac because it ISN'T Windows!

Have Mac users gone crazy and forgotten that?

And what's Microsoft's response to all of the hoopla? "This just proves that Mac user's have a need for Windows". BULLSHIT! You know what? No one with a brain and any real common sense has a need for Windows, and that includes all the corporate drones who've been locked into their fucked up Windows environment for so long, they're unable to see any other way of doing things, or to extract themselves from the legacy mistakes they've made over the years. At least not without looking like they were wrong all along.

So... can we PLEASE stop all this "talk" about running Windows on a Mac. It's quite ridiculous. I've been looking for news items to post here, but it's been rather slim pickings because of all the Boot Camp crap.

For the record, I will never, EVER (never, never, never, never, never, never, never...) put Windows on my Mac. I have to work in environments where it's all Windows, I have to support those environments, I have to constantly repair, maintain, and secure those environments, and I'd rather be hog-tied, bent-over, and ass-raped by a roving gang of grizzly bears (repeatedly), than subject myself to having Windows run on any of my PERSONAL machines!

And for all of you IT drones (you know, the folks mentioned above) who think that this is just a super-duper thing, and how NOW you can recommend getting Macs because they'll run Windows...? I say, LOSERS!! You could've always recommended Macs, or any other platform for that matter, but you don't, or you didn't, because you either don't want to "rock the boat", or you're too incompetent to support any platform OTHER than Windows. There is no reason that Mac desktops couldn't have been replacing Windows desktops for the past 3 or 4 years in MOST corporations. Why haven't they? Because IT departments are full of people who know only one thing, and are unwilling or unable to change in order to benefit the companies they work for. They aren't (as a whole) concerned with the companies well-being, they're concerned with saving their own collective asses, and to do that, they have to lock everyone in to the one thing they know, no matter how screwed up it is.

So here's my pledge to you, oh faithful readers... I will not post one more article on here about Boot Camp, or running Windows on a Mac. I think it's ludicrous, sick, sad, et al. Of course, if you disagree with me, please feel free to sound off and let me know why...

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Choices are important

post from The Apple Blog on 11 April 2006 05:17:20 AM. © The Apple Blog

It seems our cult of Mac has been turned upside down with the advent of running another OS on a Mac. Yes I know about Yellow Dog and other Nixen and that’s great for specific applications. Some say Windows on a Mac is bad news for Mac OS X, while others defend OS X as [...]

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WMV on Intel Macs

post from Mac Geekery - Get your geek on. on 11 April 2006 05:00:21 AM. © Mac Geekery - Get your geek on.

how do i view wmv on intel-based mac pro?

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Apple releases Remote Desktop 3

Apple delivered a new version of Remote Desktop to customers Tuesday, the first update to the software in nearly a year and the first major revision in almost two years.

AppleRemoteDesktop Remote Desktop 3, which allows users to control and administer Macs remotely, packs more than 50 new features, Apple said. Among these are support for Spotlight searching across remote Macs, a Dashboard widget, Automator support, an AutoInstall feature that automatically installs software on Macs when they reappear on the network, full drag and drop support to and from remote Macs (as Netopia's Timbuktu has had for many years), Application Usage and User History reports, and more.

Remote Desktop 3 also tasks advantage of AES 128-bit encryption between the administration system and remote Macs and can copy files up to 11 times faster than version 2 over fast networks.

Remote Desktop 3 is available now in two flavors: a $299 version for managing up to 10 Macs, and a $499 version for managing an unlimited number. The software requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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