LifeHacker has a first look at iTunes 8.0. As of right now iTunes can be downloaded from Apple, but not through Apple Update yet. Doesn’t look as revolutionary as many people have been saying but it seems to be a logical update for Apple. I will update in a little bit if it works with Windows Vista x64, but I imagine given iTunes 7.0 that it will.

BEWARE!
Everything went find with the iTunes on Windows 64-bit except for the fact that iTunes turned on 1-Click buying for the iTunes store for some reason. If this is not your current setting you probably want to specifically check for this under. Edit - Preference - Store in iTunes. I don’t know if this is a plan for Apple to get extra revenue or if the settings just got reset because of the install of iTunes 8, but I have never had this happen before. Luckily for me I was just buying some of their Free HD Episodes.

Tags: Apple, iPhone, iTunes

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I just can’t take Windows Vista anymore so I am ditching it for Windows Mojave.  I have heard great things about it and anything must be better than Windows Vista.

Check it out for yourself:
http://www.mojaveexperiment.com

By the way, I am still alive, just very busy with some cool things that have been happening in my life.  I will share in the next couple of weeks.

Tags: Windows Mojave, Windows Vista

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Today I was reading Engadget like I normally do in the morning to check out all the latest gadgets that they scour the internet for. And I happened across this new keyboard design that Dell is releasing with their Vostro models in the UK. I don’t know about you, but I specifically stay clear of keyboards where the backspace key is crunched down to add the backslash key on the top row. But I have never seen this keyboard layout before, where the backslash key is on the bottom left of the keyboard. I think the usability engineer that designed this keyboard should be fired, that is assuming that Dell didn’t randomly toss keys at the keyboard and let them stay where they fell.

This design has to be experienced because me describing it doesn’t do it justice for how bad of a design it is.

US Version

UK Version

Somebody may want to mention this blunder on Dell Idea Storm.

Tags: Bad Design, Dell, Useability

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