The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will dis­cover what he was meant for.

It will be released in the summer of 2008 and to be even more pre­cise 27 june, as you can see on the above poster. If you can’t wait until it’s release date here’s the Trailer.
On the Inter­net Movie Data­base (IMDB) I’ve dis­cov­ered a very nice detail watch Luxo (the lamp) care­fully. I think WALL•E is a must see!

I’ve bought an exter­nal hard drive from Iomega from the Silver Series for €184,-
The short mes­sage: that’s el-​cheepo! Stor­age cost diddly-​squat nowa­days, so this was the time to give my stor­age a little Oompf. I’ve con­nected it to my Air­port Extreme, so every­body in the familiy is happy.
Just to put it in per­spec­tive: the National Archives of Britain, which hold 900 years of writ­ten mate­r­ial, con­tains nearly 60 ter­abytes of data. What can you do with all those lovely bytes? Here are the tech specs for this drive:

• Holds 4,000,000 photos
• Holds 18,500 hours of music
• Holds 1,500 hours of video
• USB 2.0 Trans­fer Rate - 480 Mbits/s
• Hard Drives = 2 SATA
• Rota­tional Speed - 7200 RPM
• Memory Cache - up to 8MB
• Format - FAT32
• Volume Con­fig­u­ra­tion - JBOD

This year we went on vaca­tion during the summer hol­i­days. Des­ti­na­tion: Tobago (the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Repub­lic of Trinidad and Tobago) located in the south­ern Caribbean Sea just out­side the hur­ri­cane belt. We had a won­der­ful time full of lovely cock­tails, food, people, a jungle trip and lots of snor­kel­ing (in any random order). The people are very nice and warm and environment-​friendly-​aware. Two third of the island is made up of nature reserves and only one third is inhab­ited.

We took a comfort-​class flight which I can rec­om­mend to anyone who wants to fly for more then 7 hours. We were quite fit when we arrived. We went snor­kel­ing one hour after we had arrived. Next year I want to get my scuba diving license, I am infected by the beauty of the under­wa­ter world. More images later after I’ve set-​up my photo album. For now I am back to busi­ness I am gonna miss the Caribbean (…and rum)

I will be taking a well deserved break so you shouldn’t expect any posts until September/October… Hasta luego mi amigos.

Apple has made an iPhone acces­sory, a Blue­tooth head­set. This was men­tioned ear­lier during the Keynote of Steve Jobs at Mac­world Expo. It’s cur­rently unknown when this is going to be released and how much its going to cost.

Apple released Safari beta for Win­dows at the WWDC 2007 (Over 1M Safari down­loads in 48 hours). Dave Hyatt is an Amer­i­can soft­ware devel­oper cur­rently employed by Apple Inc. (since July 15, 2002), where he is part of the devel­op­ment team respon­si­ble for the Safari web browser and WebKit frame­work. Hyatt was part of the orig­i­nal team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of Safari. He is cur­rently the Safari and WebKit Archi­tect. Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Com­mu­ni­ca­tions from 1997 to 2002 where he con­tributed to the Mozilla web browser. While at Netscape, he also cre­ated Camino (then known as Chimera) and co-​created Fire­fox (orig­i­nally called Phoenix) with Blake Ross. He is cred­ited with the ini­tial imple­men­ta­tions of tabbed brows­ing for all three appli­ca­tions. Hyatt also cre­ated and wrote the first spec­i­fi­ca­tions for the XBL and XUL markup lan­guages. So the guy knows what he’s talk­ing about.

Cur­rently the WebKit which is used in many of Apple’s and third party pro­grams. Browser com­peti­tors like Omni­Web and Shiira, but also new pro­grams like Adobe Apollo AIR and the Nokia phone browser use WebKit for view­ing web con­tent. Adobe and Nokia (not the small­est market play­ers) made a choice for the WebKit frame­work instead of the Mozilla frame­work. Why, because WebKit is easier to main­tain, has a smaller code foot­print and ren­ders pages gen­er­ally faster.When Apple released the beta a secu­rity hole was found in the Win­dows version… O, boy did the Micro$oft Win­dows drones snared: “First day it was released and there’s already a secu­rity hole”. Point taken, but it’s BETA people, give Apple your feed­back and ben­e­fit your­self. Tell what you do or don’t like about it. It’s easier to shoot some­thing down, then it’s to think about how to improve it. By the way Apple already released on Friday an update for Safari.In Apple’s End User License Agree­ment it states: IMPOR­TANT NOTE: THIS IS “BETA”, PRE-​RELEASE, TIME-​LIMITED SOFT­WARE MEANT FOR EVAL­U­A­TION AND DEVEL­OP­MENT PUR­POSES ONLY. THIS SOFT­WARE SHOULD NOT BE USED IN A COM­MER­CIAL OPER­AT­ING ENVI­RON­MENT OR WITH IMPOR­TANT DATA. BEFORE INSTALLING THIS APPLE SOFT­WARE, YOU SHOULD BACK UP ALL OF YOUR DATA AND REG­U­LARLY BACK UP DATA WHILE USING THIS APPLE SOFT​WARE.For (Win­dows) web­site devel­op­ers this is a great oppor­tu­nity to start devel­op­ing W3C com­pli­ant and test on Safari, now you don’t need a Mac any­more. Now I can finally throw away Fire­Fox on my PC… that damn resource hoc.