Bind Your Ideas

I while ago I had a Spanish project to do, the goal being making a “fotonovela,” a picturebook. I was getting frustrated having to use Appleworks, Word, Google Documents, et cetera… So I found Booksmart. Booksmart is a wonderful little application, for Macs and Windows, which tastefully walks anyone, from the smallest toddler to the oldest grandparent through the process of creating a book. You can make books on anything you could possibly imagine, and then some. There’s a feature in Booksmart that allows you to “slurp” your blog into a book (supports: Blogger, LiveJournal.com, TypePad, and WordPress.com blogs). And on top of it all is a delicious interface. Unfortunately, I found that Booksmart was not right for me, the problem and the one downside of the program being that the project was due in a couple days and the books take time and money to publish, but Booksmart can still help you.

Mac Ad Spoofs

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Thus…

Three political ones which aren’t so good:

And one okay one. The sound is pretty crappy but whatever… Note: most information provided by this guy is COMPLETELY false. In fact, I’m wondering if anything he says is true (besides the all-mighty task bar up top).

And many more.

Any harm caused by laughter from the showing of these spoofs is totally justified.

Joost

I have several unfinished posts just waiting for me to polish them up for the public, but for now…

(slightly dampened by the fact that IT DOESN’T WORK FOR DREKKING PPCS)

I’m not going to say a word more…

Ay Pome Thatt Iz Speeld Rite

Hazzn’t thiz evvr hapned two yoo?

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

Ass soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Stoopid werrd. Gata gett eit ann ejookayshunn.

iPhone

Let me start this post with one major statement:

I love Apple.

This is a very broad statement, but it is at least more focussed then this:

I hate Microsoft (which, by the way, is true).

These statements are tied in to the new release of the “Zune,” Microsoft’s pitiful attempt to copy Apple in making a music player, and the expected release of the iPhone, the newest product from Apple. The “Zune” is a slipshod, badly made, turd colored marketing nightmare by Microsoft. They advertise many new features, such as WiFi song sharing, but these features are only the cover for another money-making ploy. For example, song sharing is a very good thing, I was actually remotely pleased when I heard of it, but the apple has a worm in it, pun not intended. The songs you share are only listenable for up to three times, in a period of up to three days. Then they are erased and may never be listened to again, unless you buy them, which brings me to the downloading service.

The downloading service costs 15 dollars a month for unlimited downloads, and this might not be bad enough, but once you unsubscribe to the service, the songs disappear as with the song sharing. For me, this is unacceptable. I much prefer iTunes, even if I were not using an iPod. The only feature that actually works as one would expect it to is the radio, and nowadays, radio is everywhere, so this feature is nearly obsolete. I will give them credit for that, though only because they need it.

The iPhone, on the other hand, has a touch-sensitive widescreen display, can, of course, make phone calls and play music, and can also browse the web. This wide array of features is very impressive for a company still only starting in the mobile world, however, some people think that this product will be the iPod killer. Usual clients and Apple fans alike will have two choices: either buy a cheaper classical iPod that mainly plays music and on top of that displays some photos and short videos, or buy the newest and more expensive Apple gadget. What’s your choice?