This week has been hectic for fans of the apple 3g iphone. Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of Apple, introduced a new cheaper iPhone model on Monday the 9th of June. The new iphone navigates the Internet more quickly, expanded its distribution overseas and displayed a range of new applications and services in order to establish Apple as a major player in the cellphone industry. The most amazing thing that effects consumers is the price, just shy of $200 for the 8g ($199) and the big brother 16g for a shocking $299. This price slashing is nothing new to the apple marketing front, as they did the same price cut for the ipod nano back in 2007.

 
The most pleasing aspect of the iphone for the South African market is that it will be finally sold here. However, don’t think you can just rush down to digicape or any apple store, No! It is exclusively sold by Vodacom to their network subscribers. But still, with a “projected” price of R4000 for the 8g, thats still not a bad option when a nokia N95 is priced at around R5000.

 

Earlier this week I was surfing through smashing magazine’s Beautiful And Original Product Designs of 2008. Featuring the most cutting edge of original and amazing design concepts, like the Nokia 888. However, the design or product that caught my attention from an editing and design perspective was the Keyboard Shortcut Skins for Macs.

 
This simple skin for your keyboard can maximize your short cut keyboard use for Photoshop, Aperture, and Final Cut Pro. I know, I know…. This is not a new concept and has been around for AVID users for years now, however the thing that distinguishes this skin from the others is that its universal, well at least universal between a few program that I would use, which makes my life a heck of much easier and more time efficient. Also this concept has not been explored for laptop users like me, I use a macbook pro with final cut and photoshop. Having a durable and reliable skin that I can remove quickly sounds really good.

 

Techno Viking vs. Vernon Koekemoer aired on South African tv station M-Net on the 22nd of May 2008. Clipz is a new show that first made its appearance in April, however, in a short period of time clipz has become a popular tv show with the urban generation. Clipz is a new M-Net Original Production is a 24 minute collection of the best clips and videos doing the rounds on e-mail and the worldwide web from week to week. In other words, you’ll see all those funnies that had people talking and laughing.

Watch Techno Viking vs. Vernon Koekemoer

 
Presented by Darren “Whackhead” Simpson, from Laugh Out Loud fame, the show includes a top ten list, a focus on classic on-line stars that made the internet famous and the mania of bizarre foreign clips and videos.

 

3 weeks ago I launched the Vernon Koekemoer vs Techno Viking video, which has been well recieved by the majority of its viewers. I posted it on both Youtube Facebook and Blueworld, to date having a combined total of 15,000 views.

For my next concept I was thinking of something sea related and stumbled upon a Aussie show that my friend introduced me to. I found the acting, especially when the drama kicks in to be quite over the top. The facial expression almost knocked me off my seat. These moments help me forge my concept for the Nasty Patrol. The video features pieces from CatchUpTVOnlinel, Sea Patrol and numerous clips edited together with subtitles to make a funny story about the Aussie navy and sea.

 

Hiro Media on Tuesday announced the launch of the Mac version of its video download software. The technology lets Mac users watch free, ad-supported video downloads on their systems.

Hiro employs a system that embeds advertisements into video programming. The software’s already available or Windows users and launches on the Mac first in Israel, home of Hiro Media, where it’s being used by “a leading terrestrial broadcaster, several sports and children’s channels.” The company expects the Mac service to roll out to other territories, including the USA and Australia, later in 2008.

Hiro’s technology provides unskippable mid-roll advertisements that are displayed each time a video is viewed. The company claims this enables the video to be distributed over Web sites, P2P networks and other systems without the provider needing to worry about piracy, as the ad revenue is generated, whenever and wherever the content is viewed. It works on both Windows Media Player and QuickTime.