The Geeky Brit

So I thought I would check out the new app store in itunes 7.7, in preparation for the launch of iphone 2.0 (or 2.”O this is what it should have been at launch” as I have called it).

There are quite a fair few apps available, some of them really crappy (Alarm Free), and some of them really cool (Pandora, MLB At Bat, Super Monkey Ball).

I downloaded a few of the free ones ready for my upgrade that will happen at 8am tomorrow morning. I decided to hang fire actually purchasing any until a few pioneers tried them out. Well, I might buy Super Monkey Ball, as that is a fairly safe bet. Oh, and iBeer is definitly worth a look too:

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So despite Comcast’s boast of having the most HD, their lineup is pretty paltry when compared to satellite services such as Dish or DirectTV.

Comcast relies on the OnDemand HD which I certainly don’t count… yet at least. When I watch CNN I want to see the HD variant – but of course CNN is not available in HD yet on Comcast.

When I last spoke to them, they assured me that by the end of the month they will be adding CNN, Animal Planet and a few other new HD Channels. But even so they are still WAY behind the competition. We will see what happens in the future, but I have been toying with the idea of switching. The only thing that is keeping me right now, is the prospect of TIVO software on my DVR (which is looking increasingly unlikely for this year) and the High Speed Internet which DSL just can’t match.

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So a new version of Zend was just release. I have written before about Zend, and I have to say I love it.

Those php peeps really know how to make a nice framework. The down side is, php still feels like the worst of perl and C combined…

The new MacBook Air is pretty thin. It has an awesome tv ad, which even my lovely wife think is pretty cool. It has a solid state hard drive. It has a lot of cool things.

But I think it is more interesting what it does NOT have. For example an optical drive and broadband wireless. I am not sure I could justify buying a laptop without an optical drive – yes even today when network storage is common everywhere you go. I mean, when you need to share a file when there is no network, and you have no usb key with you, there are always a couple of CD-R’s floating about?

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