MacRumors member dennisalio has created an excellent video. It’s taken him three months to create and I say it’s totally worth it. Here’s a quote from his thread:

I’m a VERY frequent lurker I guess, filmmaker and huge Mac fan.

I just shot a music video that takes place on the Mac OSX desktop. It’s really cool… It uses the Mac OSX template as a canvas. Watch it and you’ll see what I mean. Please link it up if you’re a Mac fan!!! =) I promise you won’t be disappointed (because I wasted 3 months of my life making it hahaha)

It’s really fantastic, he should submit it to Apple. For those who haven’t seen it yet here it is.

Good work Dennis!

Dennis’s Mac Video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6kxDxLAjkO8

Update: Seems there are a few problems with Youtube on our end, just have to link it.

(Just a note, as an active member on MacRumors, I saw this before it hit anywhere.)

I’ll be honest, I used the advert on the right there. But it’s personal for me at the moment. (Trying to) Recover from adhesions, I’m also faced with Insomnia. Good for 24/7 blogging, not good for the brain. Because you didn’t know that already. Okay here’s a quick roundup of what pzizz actually is..

pzizz is a software application for Mac and PC that creates audio
soundtracks that help you to nap during the day or get to sleep at
night. The wonderful thing is that you can tailor them to suit you and
they’re different every time! 

I’m going to give it a rough test now (it lasts 20-60 minutes) and I’ll report back to see if I feel energized or have indeed, slept.

Well, it hasn’t worked for me. I tried both Energizer and Sleep. I did fall asleep at the end of sleep, but my next song woke me up (Radio Ga Ga..). If it doesn’t get you to sleep, it certainly makes you feel relaxed. I don’t know if I’m going to have time to re-use this, so perhaps put it on for our next competition? Who knows.

Rating: 7/10
Verdict: Didn’t get me to sleep nor refresh me, but it certainly relaxed me which was well worth it.

In a recent patent relating to mobile instant messaging, I came upon an interesting picture. In a couple of the pictures, it shows figure 164, which says Optical Sensor beside it. Why is this so interesting? Because it is on the front side of the device.

I dugg a bit deaper and found a couple refernces to 164, including a part detailing a CCD (charge-coupled device), or basicially a camera on the front of the device. If this proves to be true, can we expect to see a camera on the front of the iPhone? It also goes on and talks about video conferencing. I think this further points to 3G in the iPhone, as I am sure that EDGE would not be able to support mass video conferencing.

There also quite a few refrences to a GPS module, and quite a few other interesting parts to the patent. You can read it over at USPTO site.

While working today, I thought of an interesting concept, .Mac for the iPhone. What if you could get an @iphone.com email, similar to those of the blackberry users’ (@*carrier*.blackberry.net)? Backup your iPhone from anywhere, access files on your Mac and upload your pictures directly from your camera roll to it? And Sync your calendars and contacts to it?

Would you be more willing to pay the $99 a year for .Mac with these ideas included? I can tell you that I would.

So why would Apple do this? To me, this idea is interesting, but it doesn’t appear to be so revolutionary. For one, and @iphone.com email would help emphasize the iPhone brand. Backing up your iPhone on the run would be essential to users in small businesses, not big enough to worry about full size enterprise management, but concerned about their sensitive and valuable information. You forgot a valuable file at the office, why not just use your iPhone to get it back over the internet. Or you’re at a party, you pull out your iPhone you take a picture, and click upload within the camera roll, and its on your .Mac iPhone page. You add an event in or a contact, and your iPhone automatically syncs it up with the server, also getting synced to your Mac.

This seems like an obvious next step for .Mac. I think this could be a very valuable tool for iPhone users. I’ve already started crossing my fingers that this will be announced alongside the iPhone 2.0 software.

Got any ideas? Post a comment and let me know what you think.

Thanks to Nik Youdale of Acqualia for feedback on this idea.

If you’ve got a chance, please digg it.

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Dave Watanabe just announced that NewsFire is now free. Joining NetNewsWire which recently did the same.

For those new to this, NewsFire is a news reader for blogs, news sites, and anything else that publishes an ‘RSS’ syndication feed. It watches for news so you don’t have to. When a new story is published, NewsFire brings it to your attention with some super-slick animation. Unlike other readers, NewsFire is designed with a deliberately minimal interface. The news is what matters and it takes center stage.

- Dave Watanabe

But I’ve just downloaded the version and noticed something. Try removing a subscription, works perfectly, now try removing the subscription to Dave’s Blog, doesn’t work. Anyone see where this might be going?