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Its about time!

On 1/11/11 @ 11am (this had Steve Jobs written on it from the beginning), Verizon’s CEO and President announced that they had finally partnered with Apple and are bringing the iPhone to Verizon customers. Since the iPhone was released in 2007, people have wanted this amazing product to be on the Verizon network which is, lets be honest, better in every way than AT&T. Here are my initial thoughts:
  • Hallelujah.
  • Should I run to the Verzion store now and set up a tent?
  • Do I still have enough money from Christmas left over to buy one?
  • Woot.
Quick tech talk – reports on information on the phone are a little thin right now but here is what we know:
  • Release date – 2/10/11 (current Verizon customers can pre-order on the 3rd)
  • Same price as before $199 16GB, $299 32GB with 2 year contract
  • It is not a 4G phone
  • A BIG difference is CDMA = No calling and surfing the web (honestly though, talk to the person, stop checking Facebook)
  • The antenna is slightly altered but it was probably to fit the CDMA guts and not to correct antennagate.
  • And probably the coolest thing – it will act as a mobile hotspot for up to 5 devices.
Now what strikes me as odd is that people are ALREADY complaining about the announcement today. Because it is coming out in February it will not be a 4G phone. People are outraged that Verizon rushed this to market, because it’s not like we’ve been begging for this for years, and are calling the whole thing stupid and to just wait until the next iPhone. Ahh greed, you’re always present aren’t you?

As for me? If I will get an iPhone I would get one now. I don’t need a 4G phone since I don’t use the web that much on my phone, and when I do I don’t need to download a vast majority of content. When the next upgrade is announced in June, sure there will be some upgrades – but guess what? June 2012’s upgrades are going to be even better than that! Will you wait for then? Of course not. This starts a huge debate of when it’s time to settle down with the current lineup and wait out two years of better devices then the ones you own. But for me it boils down to this – I want an iPhone for Verizon + Verizon has the iPhone = me happy no matter what 🙂

For any additional information check out the Verizon store’s FAQ on the iPhone.

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Kin You Believe it?

In the past few years we have seen, on an almost regular basis, company CEO’s getting paid huge bonuses for failed management, policies, and performance. This is not the case for Microsoft. Steve Ballmer was supposed to take home a bonus of 200% of his base salary for the 2010 fiscal year. However with a dismal breakthrough into the smart phone world, (SEE: Kin, you know, that phone that got pulled after 79 days on the market) Microsoft felt like he didn’t fully deserve it. So Ballmer’s bonus was reduced by 50%. Now granted he did still earn $1.34 million, but it is still nice to see a company owning up to its mistakes and holding people accountable.
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Now I’m a believer

I never thought I would see the day but it is here. I have converted, changed sides, done a complete 180 on my views on the iPad. Why? Well getting one for free helps.

See while my girlfriend The Pink Mac already has an iPad, that didn’t stop her from submitting to a contest for a free one… And she won. So lucky for me, I was bestowed this great gift to love and enjoy. But to be honest I didn’t think I would because since the iPad was announced all I did was say what a stupid, pointless, and idiotic device it is. Why would I need this when I have a laptop that can do it all and more!? Well, I want to apologize to you Steve Jobs for doubting your genius.

In one day the ipad has replaced my laptop for over 90% of my daily use. I bring it to school now since all I used my laptop for was web surfing anyway. And let’s be honest, at school if it was to get stolen I’d rather lose a $500 device than a $1300 one! At home I used to surf the web in bed always, and the ipad is a lighter more lap friendly device to use. And when I hear people buying separate netbooks for bed instead of their laptops, the idea of using an iPad in bed isn’t too crazy. Most of all it’s just fun! The use of a touch interface seems too perfect and it baffles my mind why more companies haven used this input since it is the most natural way to compute. And let’s not forget about all the apps that a laptop can’t run….

So I love my iPad now. Would I have paid $500 for this on my own? Probrably not. But this gift has changed my mind about the device completely, so if your on the fence on if you should buy one all I can say is this – BUY IT!!!=justify>

Sent from my iPad.

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Cousy’s Vid of the Week 6/18

As most of you that spend more than 3 seconds on the internet know, the web is a great place to find cool and funny videos of whatever your heart desires. The web as provided a great breeding ground for artists and comedians to share their work with the entire world. That’s why the Pink Mac wants to share with you some of our personal favorite videos we have found on the interwebs in the past 7 days.

I just realized that I missed a Vid of the Week post a few weeks ago! I don’t know how this happened as it is my favorite thing to blog about. Sorry if anyone’s lives were crushed about this and to make it up I bring you a record THREE videos for this week! Enjoy.

As a nerd who plays World of Warcraft this video made me crack up. Perfect parody of Run This Town by Jay-Z. To all the citizens of Azeroth: get pumped, grab your Mountain Dew, headset, and get ready to kill Arthas with this playing – this song is for you.

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Bonus Video of the Week!

OkGo is a popular band know not so much for their great songs, but rather their amazingly mind blowing music videos. From the Youtube viral hit – Here it Goes Again (The Treadmill Video), WTF, and both videos for This Too Shall Pass (2nd one here) OkGo has done new and exciting things with each song. So it’s no surprise that the video for the new song End Love is fantastic. Try not to make a big mess when your mind is blown.

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Bonus – Bonus Video of the Week!

I am a big fan of the Fully Sick Rapper and was pleased to see him share this video of a fellow sick rapper. Josh Sundquist lost his leg to cancer but that hasn’t slowed him down or stopped him from making a hilarious rap video.

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No iPad for me!

So, I’m currently sitting on a Bolt Bus on the way home from NYC, totally devistated because there were no ipads at the 5th Avenue Apple store. I have concluded that I will just never get an ipad at this point, that is, until the 2nd gen model comes out and I preorder it like a sane person would!

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Cousy’s Vid of the Week 6/11

As most of you that spend more than 3 seconds on the internet know, the web is a great place to find cool and funny videos of whatever your heart desires. The web as provided a great breeding ground for artists and comedians to share their work with the entire world. That’s why the Pink Mac wants to share with you some of our personal favorite videos we have found on the interwebs in the past 7 days.

No big intro here, just a video mocking the incompetence of BP. Enjoy.

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Cousy’s Vid of the Week 5/28

As most of you that spend more than 3 seconds on the internet know, the web is a great place to find cool and funny videos of whatever your heart desires. The web as provided a great breeding ground for artists and comedians to share their work with the entire world. That’s why the Pink Mac wants to share with you some of our personal favorite videos we have found on the interwebs in the past 7 days.

Its a sad day in the Mac advertising world. The popular “Get a Mac” commecials, featuring John Hodges as the bumbling PC and Justin Long as the suave Mac, have finally ended. No longer will we hear the familiar “Hello, I’m a Mac” on our TV’s and computers as Apple has decided to move on. The ads have even been removed from Apple’s website. So this video is a tribute to some of the great laughs and lines this little mini-series has given us. Enjoy.


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Bonus Video of the Week!

In honor of both the end of the “Get a Mac” series and the end of the trip for the Pink Mac staff to Europe, I wanted to share with you all the British version of the “Get a Mac” series. That’s right, Justin Long and John Hodges were not the ones seen around the globe. In England the stars of the ads were from the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb. David Mitchell plays the failing PC and Robert Webb is the ever cool Mac. Most of the commercials were used with the exact same scripts for the US and UK versions, just different actors. However, some were changed to fit in with some of the local lingo and sayings – as extremely evident in this commercial. Again, enjoy!

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This isn’t so much a post as it is a comment I feel compelled to type out right now. For the past 5 years my favorite show on TV has been 24. The thrilling show about a man fighting terrorism, corruption, and evil to make to world a better place. That show ended tonight after 8 seasons and it is sad to see it go. It was time though, no doubt about that. Ratings were dipping down a bit, the flow of Emmys stopped, and the story lines were starting to repeat every now and again (seriously how many moles did CTU have?). No, it’s time for 24 to go out while on top then slowly die out.

Tonight’s episode did not go the way I had predicted, and don’t worry there are no spoilers in this post! It seemed to perfectly encompass all the show has done and stood for for the past 9 years. From cheering people’s demise and fall, to crying over the emotions and feelings shown by true friends, this week’s episode was perfect. Every week the show has been a roller coaster of emotions throwing you down to crying back up to cheering in less then one hour. And in the show was a message that no matter what, good always one and honesty, integrity, and valor were the true good forces in the world and in ourselves that we all must strive to improve and participate in. I will truly miss it and I while I doubt anyone from the show would read this post – I must put it out there and thank all those who made this show possible. It was a masterpiece and I will miss it very much.

Now, all that’s left to do is wait for the 24 movie to come out. Until then I’ll be filling my Netflix queue with seasons 1-8 to see it again, and a few I missed along the way.

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Cousy’s Vid of the Week 5/22

As most of you that spend more than 3 seconds on the internet know, the web is a great place to find cool and funny videos of whatever your heart desires. The web as provided a great breeding ground for artists and comedians to share their work with the entire world. That’s why the Pink Mac wants to share with you some of our personal favorite videos we have found on the interwebs in the past 7 days.

Okay yes, this post is one day late so it should really be the past 8 days. Sorry for the delay, but it’s been a little hectic around the Pink Mac Office with half of the staff going to Europe for the week. I hope when they get back they have some good post ideas for you all on Euro-tech. We’ll see. As for this week as per usual my attempts to post a video tech-related will probably fall flat on its face. (There is a Macbook in the video… does that count?) This video is from the web-sketch-series-show-thing The Key of Awesome! The Key of Awesome is a part of Barely Political, famous for Obama Girl and Auto-Tune the News. The Key of Awesome, now on its 20th episode (not including behind the scenes) brings us fun and creative parodies of songs, movies, and artists. Whether they are making fun of Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, or Batman, The Key of Awesome does an amazing job being creative, original, and down right funny. This week they parodied Owl City’s song “Fireflies”. Hope you enjoy and please visit their Youtube page to see more awesome videos!

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Bonus Video of the Week!

Okay yes, like every week has a bonus video and the post should be called “Cousy’s Vids of the Week”. I’ll try to cut it down from now on. This week though I wanted to give you guys a song that I love and can’t stop listening to… and it relates to the video above. I love the Postal Service song “Such Great Heights” and was really impressed by the cover of the song by Iron & Wine. I think the Iron & Wine version is a little better in fact. So here is a fan made video using the movie “The Garden State”, which I the song is in (but I’ve yet to see that movie so please correct me if I am wrong). This guy’s video really captures the feeling of the Iron & Wine version and puts it perfectly with the imagery of the movie. Unfortunately the video ends for some reason at then end of the song – nothing really is cut off but it is missing a little. Here is a link of the full song with lyrics. But please enjoy this video too!

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Google-Man

Google always has impressed me with the wide variety of logos they could make for their homepage. For the first day of summer, Halloween, or some obscure holiday, there is always something interesting spelling out G-O-O-G-L-E. A while back Google put a new twist on the logo for Issac Newton’s birthday. Google introduced their first animated logo with an apple falling from a tree and it was fun to see them do something different. Today’s logo does everything completely different and blows and every other logo away with how awesome it is.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, so to celebrate the game you get to play it. Google made a Pac-Man map to spell out Google, but if that wasn’t cool enough you can actually start the game and play it like a normal Pac-Man game. So okay, its a little buggy (ghosts seem to avoid me rather than attack me and I walked right into the Pink one and didn’t die) but it is still amazing that they did this. So please if you have a spare moment, get your self to Google.com and play today! Because it will only last a few more hours!!!

Oh and a little Easter Egg – Hit insert coin twice to add a second player with Mrs. Pac-Man!

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And if you missed it here is a video of a person playing the game. Oh and the left button says – Google Search – like always, but the right one says instead – Insert Coin