Mircea Baldean

I don’t think we can have a comparison… I’m not a fan of SecondLife at all. How about enjoying your (first) life?! Excellent parody - Get A First Life - and yes, Membership is Free!

No Vista for me! Not a for a while at least… That’s because I recently switched to Mac and I love it so far! Thanks to Jenn, who was bugging me for the last year, I started to do my homework and got into the Mac spirit. Got a copy of David Pogue’s Mac OS X Tiger: The Missing Manual just to get an overview and features of OS X. If you have a Linux background, you’ll love how Apple integrated it’s super-cool GUI with the robustness of Linux. Everything is so easy to learn and discover.

The second generation of MacBookPros, running on Intel Duo Core 2 is awesome, pretty fast even when rendering big images in PhotoShop. You can even run Windows with Parallels on Intel based Macs, but I don’t see a reason to install it on a such a sleek machine.

More about my experience on Macs to come shortly, on a dedicated new blog. Yes, I think it’s worth it.

Way to go, Apple!
Yours new Mac junkie.

Apparently the cheapest place to buy a Nano, at $144.20, is Canada!
Some iPod prices around the world:

1. Brazil $327.71
2. India $222.27
3. Sweden $213.03
4. Denmark $208.25
5. Belgium $205.81
6. France $205.80
7. Finland $205.80
8. Ireland $205.79
9. United Kingdom $195.04
10. Austria $192.86
11. Netherlands $192.86
12. Spain $192.86
13. Italy $192.86 
14. Germany $192.46
15. China $179.84
16. South Korea $176.17
17. Switzerland $175.59
18. New Zealand $172.53
19. Australia $172.36
20. Taiwan $164.88
21. Singapore $161.25
22. Mexico $154.46
23. United States $149.00
24. Japan $147.63
25. Hong Kong $147.35
26. Canada $144.20

After two years of hesitancy, the music industry is finally taking its first steps toward embracing podcasting. Sony BMG makes the first move with the help of marketing agency Rock River Communications to license music for podcasting.

You can take artists like Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Tony Bennet of Gloria Estefan on the road with the Chrysler Music Legends Podcast. Way to go! According to the Wall Street Journal, Ford and Chrysler are both paying Sony BMG a flat fee to license music for podcast distribution for one year, no matter how many copies are downloaded.

Happy Blogging New Year, everybody! :)