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Apple gets into the book-banning business

Apple's refused to allow an application called "Comic Reader" in the iTunes Store because they don't like the comic book it ships with -- effectively, they've gotten into the business of banning or approving literature.

Apple Forfeits eBooks By Banning A Comic Book!

Who at Apple has been set up to vet material? Specifically, why was Murderdrome vetted as an application and not as a publication? Apple has a Books category in the App Store. That's where Murderdrome should have been placed.

The whole approval process is a problem with iPhone/iPod touch and all console games, Wii, PS3/2, Xbox, that require software distribution to go through the device creator vs. third parties like with PCs. For developers it is a bit more of a problem with Apple, the vetting process doesn't occur til after the app is created then submitted. Traditionally with game consoles the original device creator, Sony, Nintento, Microsoft, work fairly closely with developers from the beginning so you know that your game/app is going to be allowed. Also with Apple the reality is there are not many consistent guidelines other than "don't compete with unless you are really popular". Which translates to your web browser, Opera Mini, will not be allowed but a Gmail client will be allowed.

One intresting way around all this is to not make it an installed app but run it through a website. Doesn't always work with the iPod Touch but does for an iPhone, one of the things I like about the iPhone vs. the iPod Touch. Another way around would be to release the app with something more "friendly" and imediately allow for downloading the more questionable stuff like Murderdrome.

Regardless it is some good press for Infurious Comics.

And when all is said and done I still hold that the iPhone/iPod Touch maybe what makes eBooks and eComics work and I still want one of each :)

Uhhhh, I want a MacBook. Not in the imediate budget unless a slew of side jobs drop on my plate.

Oh, I just figured out the Universal Access on the Mac. To zoom in hold down the Apple Key, Option Key and press =+ Key. To zoom out press and hold the Apple Key, Option Key and press -_ Key. That easy.

If you want to see all the options or configure the settings, goto the Apple logo in the upper left corner and click, then in the drop down menu click "System Preferences". A new window should appear with a bunch of icons, click on "Universal Access" then check the "Enable access for assistive devices"

And for a little Windows comparrison. You can use the Accessiblity Options little magnification of a line of text, inadequate according to my visually imaired sister. Or you could purchase ZoomText for the low sale price of $509.

In my iPod/Apple obsession the desire to have a playlist of all the songs from Apple, or at leas iPod, comercials here is what I found. Please send corrections or addisions.

• Rock Star (Nevin's Classic Club Blaster) - N.E.R.D. - iPod
• Jerk It Out - Caesars - iPod Shuffle
• Channel Surfing - Feature Cast - iPod Breakdance
• Ride - The Vines - iPod Wild Postings
• Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram - iPod Sterio Rock
• Saturday Night - Ozomatli - iPod Saturday Hip Hop
• Vertigo - U2 - iPod U2
• Hey Mama - Black Eyed Peas - iPod Hip Hop
• Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet - iPod Rock
• Rockstar (Jason Nevins Classic Club Blaster-Edit) - Jason Nevins - iPod Dance
• Spit - John Murphy - Apple Branding
• Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix - Cube
• Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf - Optical Mouse
• Music to Think By - Benny Golson - iMac Window
• Take Californ - Propellerheads - iPod Beat
• Forever Young - Bob Dylan - iMovie Kids
• You turned my whole world around - Barry White - iBook Barry
• She's a Rainbow - Rolling Stones - iMac Colours

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A NIN single is released in Garageband format. Maybe the best part, they why:

For quite some time I've been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks - to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what's there.

Pretty cool attitude, time to play.

Looks like the rumors are true. Guess we will find out for sure Monday.

Original location'iHome' pictures and video mirrored just in case they get a smackdown.

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Inital reaction, cool, but still too costly.

Couldn't agree more, Rafe on Labels versus folders, labels win. I have fallen in love with del.icio.us labels and started experimenting with them in Thunderbird, dumbing everything into one folder with lots of labeling. Now if I could just do the same with my home direcory or My Documents. And if MovableType made it easier to label/categorize. Well Thunderbird needs more than 5 label options.

It is about 9PM and just got around to dinner. Even left work early today. Why the delay to dinner, GarageBand is just that much fun! I have barely gotten near to scratching the surface.

Do yourself a favor. Find an Apple Store or a store within a store that had GarageBand on a demo machine and have some fun. Don't worry about the funny looks the other customers give your mixed music, they are just jellous that you are on the box and not them :)

Update: No MP3s to share yet. Wait til I perfect my Bluegrass HipHop sound :)

I'm so tempted tp pick up GarageBand and a USB MIDI Keyboard. Now to find some relatively inexpensive, maybe a eKeys 37 or something similarly priced. It has been years since I really touched a keyboard.

I'm reminded of the first time a Mac really impressed me. In the early 90's in one the campus labs there were a couple of Macs with MIDI keyboards hooked up. One had a student that was "song processing" to onscreen sheet music. I was blown away at the time.

BYOB: Build Your Own Browser

This is the first in a series of two articles describing how to develop applications using WebKit. This article will cover building a basic web browser without writing a line of code.

Time to play.

iPod mini cool but Apple still needs a MP3 player in the $100-150 range. The 50% increase storage on the $299 iPod might be my tippingpoint.

Now the coolest. GarageBand is potentially one of the coolest piecies of software form Apple. Now let the see hear the new creations assisted by GarageBand. Kinda makes me wish I was back in highschool with a guitar and a keyboard.

Everything else seems more incremental.

There is a fix for the MovableType Bookmarklet that works in Safari.

In case the link dies, BlogIt

In the realm of I wish, Apple iBox in production. I mention it cause it would be cool but is very unlikely, or if happening will end up costing over $2,000 in usual Apple fashion. Course maybe Steve will tell us about it next week.

Ten Things I Dig About Xcode highlighting coolness in XCode. Really wonder how it compares to VisualStudio .NET, having never used that paticular IDE.

Oh, and the use of Rendezvous being used for more than just chatting and music sharing for the distributed build. There is a killer app in Rendezvous waiting to be found.

Re: acterex's comment
The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but under-utilized technology. from The Jargon File's listing for killer app

Distributed rendering and building is cool and all but not really a killer app. I'm thinking of something that can really only work when Rendezvous, or something similar exists. I would expect that it embodies some currently underutilized aspect of community and network effects.

100 screenshots and 11 pages about Panther, and I'm still getting used to Jaguar.

Jeremy has a great question, Which Open Source Projects Would You Sponsor? for yourself and your company. At work if there was anything like a good CRM, think ACT on steroids, it would be a good donation investment. Personally getting more OpenSource with native OS support, like OpenOffice, AbiWord, GIMP, etc on OSX, outside of Xwindoes, would rock.

I did it. I finally did it. Yesterday I gave the Kenwood Towne Center Apple Store, Cincinnati a 90 minute drive, a call to see if they had any Power Mac G4s, specs. Lucky me the did. After a 3 hour round trip, a quick stop to the Apple Store, and hours lost helping a friend with a bad motherboard around midnight I set the new baby up. Damm it sure feels good. Well back to re-exploring.

Overview of Xserve for a Small Business LAN