When I bought my Mac­Book Pro I also bought myself a new back­pack or in this case a hard­pack.
Axio’s stan­dard dual zone com­part­ments with 4-panel orga­niz­ers can fit up to a 17″ Mac­Book Pro which remains secure in a fleece-​lined cocoon. With it’s urban styl­ish badges, unique con­trast zipper stitch­ing, head­phone pocket with exter­nal exit makes it extremely com­fort­able and appeal­ing eye-​candy. Here are some prod­uct highlights:

• Molded poly­car­bon­ate hardshell
• Over­sized padded shoul­der straps with phone pocket
• Ergonomic back panel with “sponge” foam for comfort
• Dual zone com­part­ments open­ing to 4 sep­a­rate panels
• Ded­i­cated padded laptop com­part­ment - fleeced lined
• Large exter­nal back zipper pocket for easy access
• Holds a 17” Mac­Book Pro and 15” note­books or smaller
• Styl­ish black chrome zipper pulls and badges
• Sporty con­trast zipper stitching

Coco Bloom belongs in con­tem­po­rary living spaces with its iconic form and com­fort­able nest for baby formed in cul­ti­vated style­wood and plex­istyle. Coco Bloom has a smooth self-​rocking motion, a curved, single-​piece frame with cosy soft-​feel for max­i­mum com­fort and 5-point padded safety har­ness, adjustable for the grow­ing baby. This micro-suede/leatherette seat pad is avail­able in vibrant colours and is easy to clean.
So our little man can lounge, rock and relax…

Now that the baby is coming I’ve read in-​depth arti­cles on every baby gadget I can get my hands on. We’ve got a stroller from Joolz (Bloom Flax Black), a nice prac­ti­cal and reli­able but tech­ni­cally inge­nious and orig­i­nal device. She comes in colors every­where reminded me a bit from the song “She’s a Rainbow” by the Rolling Stones which Apple used for their iMac com­mer­cials. The Bloom is avail­able in: Cosmos Silver, Flax Black, Lotus Blue, Ivy Orange, Yarrow Pink and Poppy Red.
If you’re inter­ested there is a demon­stra­tion video of the Bloom avail­able at the Joolz home­page. There’s a lot of dig­i­tal lifestyle inte­gra­tion in these prod­ucts, more on this after the break.

As you’ve prob­a­bly noticed, there were few no posts these couple of months. This is because of a life chang­ing event… no, I don’t mean the ultra secret, all new Mac Pro Peta-​Core
The secret is out: I’ll become a daddy. A dig­i­tal daddy a di-​daddy. No this weblog will not change into a Baby Blog™, though it’s fun to show some of our gadgets for our new­born. I’ll be back soon with some post…

Apple’s iPhone SDK press con­fer­ence will be held at 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET

08:00AM - Hawaii
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Moun­tain
12:00PM - Cen­tral
01:00PM - East­ern
06:00PM - London
07:00PM - Ams­ter­dam
09:00PM - Moscow
03:00AM - Tokyo (March 7th)

Due to the nature of Adobe Flash plugin, Adobe’s pro­pri­etary soft­ware would need to be recom­piled and opti­mized for the ARM archi­tec­ture for run­ning on mobile devices like the iPhone/iPod Touch, so is stated by many web­sites. Quick­time wasn’t build from the ground up to sup­port these devices either (power and memory con­sump­tion wise). But not all QuickTime’s codec’s are sup­ported only H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-​Complexity ver­sion of the H.264 Base­line Profile…(see iPhone Specs for more infor­ma­tion). My ques­tion is: IS THIS TRUE? Adobe is oper­at­ing on Apple’s play­ground (Format Wars). HD-​DVD has left the build­ing in favor of BR-​DVD. But the dig­i­tal format for video isn’t decided yet! H.264, Win­dows Media or Adobe Flash. Adobe has an install base of 90%> it even comes bun­dled with Mac OS X. Quick­Time is installed on every com­puter with iTunes (Apple’s Trojan Horse) and every Mac. Apple and Adobe are com­peti­tors busi­ness wise: Final Cut Pro isn’t one of Adobe’s favorite appli­ca­tions. Apple is expand­ing hor­i­zon­tal in the soft­ware market. Rumors even point to trou­ble in the mar­riage of Apple/Adobe when Apple released iPhoto. Apple had to down­grade iPhoto’s fea­tures. When Adobe bought Macro­me­dia, there was no com­peti­tor left in the market and com­pe­ti­tion is always good! Either Apple will solve our prob­lem or Adobe will the market demands a solu­tion. I am not a big Flash fan as you prob­a­bly know so I am not cheer­ing on Adobe side.

iTunes (Music) (Games) (Movies) Store hence the name! iTunes already left it’s origin a long time ago. Apple should work out some­thing (iMedia Store or what­ever). iTunes is a strong brand, but it doesn’t cover it’s orig­i­nal propo­si­tion any­more! Apple lost the Com­puter in it’s name to state: more then just com­put­ers. The iTunes brand has to be updated! It’s an online store where the con­sumer can buy music, games, movies, audio­books etc. not just music! If I’ve under­stood cor­rectly Apple’s is going to offer soft­ware in it’s line-​up. The iPhone/iPod Touch are the first to receive it’s apps through iTunes.

Online ser­vices are the next big evo­lu­tion­ary thing after Web 2.0. You already see some com­pa­nies making the shift, like Adobe with it’s Adobe Pho­to­shop Online (PSX), Adobe even branded the Pho­to­shop line with a new very much dis­cussed (Web 2.0 Aquaish) logo. Google is also exper­i­ment­ing with online apps (Cal­en­dar, Docs, Talk etc.) and Apple already has it’s .Mac ser­vices for years (thanks to WebOb­jects). I think and pre­dict that a lot of com­pa­nies will offer these kind of ser­vices in the future and see a tighter inte­gra­tion between web-​based appli­ca­tions and desktop-​based appli­ca­tions, maybe even elim­i­nat­ing their desk­top cousins and trans­form into a sub­scrip­tion based model.