Year: 2006

ABC Sports, ESPN and more coming to iTunes

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

The Walt Disney Company today announced it will now offer additional programming from ESPN and ABC Sports, ABC Entertainment and Touchstone Television, ABC Family, ABC News, Buena Vista Television, Disney Channel, and SOAPnet, as well as content produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation on Apple’s iTunes Music Store. “ESPN and ABC Sports are the first to offer sports programming on the iTunes Music Store, bringing fans a host of sports content. Condensed versions of all four BCS Bowl Games from ABC Sports will be available on the iTunes Music Store. Condensed versions of yesterday’s Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and Nokia Sugar Bowl will be available today. Today’s Orange Bowl and tomorrow’s Rose Bowl Presented by Citi (the national title game, matching USC against The University of Texas) will be available the day after they air.”

Later this month, ESPN will make additional content available, including the Best Of The X Games; “SportsCentury” interviews from ESPN Classic’s biography series; the “This is SportsCenter” commercials; and select ESPN Original Entertainment programs — including “Knight School,” the forthcoming reality program featuring Texas Tech basketball coach Bobby Knight, which will premiere on iTunes.

Additionally, free, ad-supported video podcasts from ABC News will be available, including daily segments from “Good Morning America” and the “World News Tonight” webcast, as well as ABC News Now’s “Money Minute,” “Medical Minute” and “Buzz Cut.”

Classic animated shorts produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and featured on Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s upcoming “Disney at the Academy Awards,” including the 1933 Academy Award-winning “The Three Little Pigs” and the 1935 Academy Award-winning “The Tortoise and the Hare,” will also be available.

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Mac1.no participating in ‘The Gathering 2006’

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

Our Norwegian colleagues at Mac1.no are attempting to arrange a row of Mac-users attending what it says is the world’s largest LAN-party, “The Gathering 2006“. The Gathering is located in Hamar, Norway and is an annual event that draws several thousand people from all over the world. The Mac1.no group is trying to make a good appearance by styling it’s row like an Apple Store in all white — a strong contrast to the usual neon-light modded PCs that normally show up at these gatherings.

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Small Tree announces 10GbE CX-4 switches for Mac OS X

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

Small Tree Communications today announced it has reached an OEM agreement with Fujitsu for its 10GbE CX-4 switches, enabling the company to offer a complete 10GbE CX-4 bundle solution for Mac OS X. “The end-to-end integrated solution provided by Small Tree includes a 12 port Fujitsu switch, Intel 10GbE CX-4 Network Interface Cards, Small Tree 10GbE drivers and BlazeFS file sharing system software.”

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Meridian 3.0 adds iTunes control and more

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

Recurring Dream has announced the release of Meridian 3.0, an enhanced menu bar clock with alarms, time zones, timers, a stopwatch, and chimes. Version 3 adds an iTunes volume control, a snooze function, a streamlined alarm notification window, and numerous usability enhancements. Meridian 3.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later and is priced at US$19.95. A 30-day trial version is also available.

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iPod Film Festival announced

Posted by | Jan 3, 2006 | |

The Flux today announced the opening of The Flux iPod Film Festival, an online film festival/competition of content formatted for the iPod. “Visitors to the site can download the films for playback on their computers or iPod video, then vote for their favorite video. Prizes will be awarded in four categories: student film, indie film, family clip, and best music video,” The Flux announced. Submissions must be less than ten minutes, and formatted for the iPod.

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