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Wednesday, February 2, 2005 |
The first update of iMovieHD was out today. I suppose more will follow for the other apps. For just $79 you get GarageBand 2, iMovieHD, iPhoto, iDVD and iTunes. iPhoto can now handle RAW files. We no longer need an expensive app to process those files. I can now try it out on my Nikon D70.
It is clear Apple will have to provide for the handling of very large folders. A standard HD is soon too small. So Steve's next task is to make access to external drives easier for iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand.
And I am really taken with GarageBand 2. From the net I took a simple MIDI song and made my own arrangement of Cockles and Mussels. When you drop such a file in GarageBand it splits up in several tracks/instruments. Apply some channel mixing, change the instruments and you have the performance you like. Great app!
7:58:25 PM 
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Stormfax Weather Almanac: "If the sun made an appearance on Candlemas Day, an animal would cast a shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of Winter. Germans watched a badger for the shadow. In Pennsylvania, the groundhog, upon waking from mid-Winter hibernation, was selected as the replacement."
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and thus we are headed for 6 more weeks of winter.
No shadow here in Amsterdam.
Also, in latter-day America, Punxsutawney Phil feels obliged to declare officially he is not gay.
3:23:43 PM
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CommonDreams: "Emboldened by their success at the polls, the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress believe they have a new opportunity to move the nation away from the system of employer-provided health insurance that has covered most working Americans for the last half-century.
In its place, they want to erect a system in which workers - instead of looking to employers for health insurance - would take personal responsibility for protecting themselves and their families: They would buy high-deductible 'catastrophic' insurance policies to cover major medical needs, then pay routine costs with money set aside in tax-sheltered health savings accounts."
But a growing number of people will not be able to pay for such policies or set aside enough money in those savings accounts.
HoustonChronicle: "Outreach efforts, in addition to a sluggish economy, a growing population and relaxed eligibility guidelines, have fueled a 75 percent increase in the number of Texans on federally funded food stamps since 2000.
Yet, despite the jump, fewer people are actually getting food stamps than a decade ago. Statewide, those receiving food stamps peaked at nearly 2.8 million in 1994, dropped to nearly 1.4 million in 2000 and has been on the rise again, reaching about 2.4 million last November."
11:18:32 AM
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