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Courtesy of Amiga Forever, who have screenshots of the upcoming Amiga Forever 2008 running on both the Asus eee pc and the OLPC. I have no idea what they specifically have planned for the 2008 release but I hope it comes with a bootable stripped down OS so you don’t need to have linux or windows pre-installed. Less overhead.
Looking at the screenshots I have now become interested in the OLPC as it obviously has a higher screen resolution (1200×900). Seeing as the project is meant to bring computers to the less fortunate there’s no way to get one at the moment, you can only donate. But for a while they had an option that if you donated one, you got one yourself as well, which is said to return eventually. Quirky little machine.

And take notes while you’re at it.

Or, in other words, I’m wondering what the current state of text to speech and speech to text software is. Given the amount of hours in a day and looking at my todo list and it’s clear I’ve got a problem. Or problem… I simply can’t squeeze everything in those mere 24 hours, especially if you take out time for such boring things as sleeping, working and commuting. Commuting takes me about 2 hours a day, so it would be brilliant if I could do something else while driving to and back from work.

Which got me thinking, it would be lovely if I could plonk some software on a laptop or ultra portable and have it, for example, read out the news to me from a batch of selected RSS feeds. Equally it would be brilliant if the damn thing would listen to my voice so I could operate it, and have it take notes, for example I could dictate whole blog entries, or finally note down all the ideas I get for new stuff which I for some reason mostly forget once I get out of the car.
Is there anyone who has any experience with doing anything like this, either on Windows, Os X or any flavor of Linux?

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It’s new (just announced at MacWorld 2008), it’s thin, it doesn’t have a cd/dvd drive, it’s slower, it costs a lot more!
It’s air alright, Steve Jobs’ hot air coming out of his ass. They call it ultra portable. I thought that meant small, not thin, it’s still 13.3″.
That’s it for me, I’ll wait for the new Asus Eee and go ‘nix instead. Why the hell anyone would prefer this Air over a MacBook is beyond me. Not at nearly twice the price anyway. Or 6 times the price of an Eee.
Flat-out stunning? Nah, flat-out disappointing.

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64-bit Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” 5400 series processor for the win, in the new models of the Xserve and Mac Pro, so 2 processors makes for 8 cores in total. Niiice.

But, what’s rather weird is that these are announced a week before the Macworld San Francisco 2008, which makes everyone wonder what they’re going to announce there if this wasn’t big enough.

is now my chat client of choice as it’s the only one able to detect my connection settings, meaning it’s the only one that works through my proxy at work when I’m connected with vpn AND automagically detects when I’m not connected with vpn.
MSN is being weird, I now have Squid (my proxy at work) set to recognize my vpn ipaddress range so I can surf while connected with Firefox but IE7 (and thus msn/live messenger seeing as it uses IE’s connection settings) seems to flat out refuse to do anything. More puzzle work remains.

Mac OS X Leopard arrives October 26

That can now be read on the official site along with a nice countdown timer. Mmmm.
I’m also very interested what this will bring.

Lush. Get it while it’s hot. Still my favourite mp3 player on Windows by FAR.
I love the new Bento GUI and the Winamp Remote thingie sounds very interesting as well, which enables you to listen to your winamp music no matter where you are. I’ll have to give that a try.

Rumours have it that new MacBooks are in the works.
Two things that catch my interest;
- Aluminium case. This I like because the MacBook’s plastic sucks, scratches, turns an icky colour and doesn’t protect the inner components enough.
- ‘Extremely aggresively’ priced. Now we’re talking Apple here, so that could sit cost you a few ribs, but one can hope.
Maybe these’ll come along with the launch of Leopard? Which is rumoured to have reached Release Candidate stage by the way, and the 800Mhz G4 has been dropped as the minimum spec.