Obvious Diversion

“You can really dress up and nobody can say you’re pretentious.”
A gem from the Dr Katz podcast Hey, We’re Back!
iTunes link to Hey, We’re Back!

Because it’s too much fun not to, here are my two Macworld 2008 predictions:
1. An In-Car GPS companion to the iPhone. It sits on your dash, take advantage of your iPhone via bluetooth, and gives you all the happy turn by turn directions via a OS X backed interface.
2. An iPhone to AppleTV Connection. [...]

What I Got Right

Nintendo will become #1 in the games industry again in next-gen units, portable units and cash raked in. One look at the Wii remote in late 2005, I felt confident making this prediction in 2006, repeated it for 2007, and it came true about half-way through the year when the Wii overtook [...]

Inquisitor: Greatly improves the Safari browser search box.
Perian: Adds support for a long list of video types to the Quicktime video player.
Flip4Mac: Add Windows Media support to the Quicktime video player.

I’ve been helping people set up a lot of Christmas macs over the last few weeks, and have put these three programs on every single [...]

There’s a good interview with Syd Mead about what’s coming in the near future over on NPR. Syd has made a living predicting the look and feel of the future for movies like Blade Runner, Aliens, and Tron, so it’s interesting to hear his take on what’s coming in the next ten to fifteen [...]