According to various rumours Apple may be releasing a new Apple TV but in a different format compared to the current model. If the rumours are to be believed then the new Apple TV will be a screen-less iPod. It will only have 16GB of on board storage. It will in the main be streaming content from a Mac or the cloud.
I already use my iPhone to do this, however this new Apple TV has the advantage that it will she able to play 1080p HD content.
The price?
$99
Probably will get one.
I hate noisy computers and if Macs were noisy then I probably wouldn’t use them… though I do recall my old PowerMac G5 when the fans took off would not be out of place at an airport!
I do remember in a previous job, a user bought their cheap (PCWord Advent) laptop into the office to have something checked, and when we switched it on, it was so noisy. Drowned out all the other office machines… at that time we had four Sony VAIO desktops, an iMac and a G5 PowerMac in the office. The Sony VAIO desktops were quite quiet.
Another time I was testing a Windows Media Centre from Evesham. This was a computer designed to look like a VCR/DVD player and sit under the TV. I was setting it up at home under the TV when I switched it on and my wife said “there is NO way that is staying in here”. It was one of the noisest computers I had ever heard. Couldn’t believe it as it was designed to be a computer to play back music, tv and video. There was no way you could appreciate any music or soundtrack with the noise of the fans!
Another noisy machine was the xBox 360, it’s a lot noisier than either the Wii or the PS3.
I like my nice quiet iMac.
Though my MacBook Pro does get quite loud if it gets hot!
BBC reports on a court ruling from Germany.
German citizens are responsible for the security of their own private wireless connections, a court has ruled.
The ruling comes after a musician sued the owner of a network connection that had been used to illegally download and file-share music.
The owner had proof that the householder was on holiday at the time but the court ruled that the network should have been password-protected.
Is your wifi protected from others misusing it?
Finally details about the international release of Apple’s iPad have emerged.
From Apple’s Press Release:
Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28th. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple’s online store in all nine countries beginning on Monday, May 10th
So how much are they going to cost?
£429 for the 16GB model
£499 for the 32GB
£599 for the 64GB
As for the WiFi + 3G
£529 for the 16GB model
£599 for the 32GB
£699 for the 64GB
Apple have also said that the iBooks App will also be available in the UK allowing e-books to be downloaded and read on the iPad.
Thinking about the 32GB WiFi model myself, though I quite like the idea of a 3G iPad.
Now printing documents from Parallels should be a simple affair. The Windows VM should just print and go…
Parallels installs the following printer…
Which then should be delivered to the printer attached to the Mac, which in my case is a Canon MP600r.
The print job does read the Canon print queue… However the Mac decides to HOLD the print job and when you try and RESUME it, I get the following error.
The error says:
pstopdffilter/pstocupsraster failed with err number -31000
Now at this time I have no idea how to resolve this, except to either print direct from the VM to the Canon (as the Canon is wireless and on the network) or to use one of my printer sharing tricks.
Would be nice to know what’s causing the problem though and initial searches through Google don’t seem to resolve it.
