A very swiss and very nice ‘thank you’ gift from a fellow blogger!

Thanks Heather! The chocs were very yummy

Not a product by apple (yet), instead a bonkers and rather cute toy from Hasbro. Awww!

The press release says:

This is one cool cat!  The I-CAT Interactive Music Companion is a fabulous feline that not only loves to listen to your favorite tunes but can also play funky ‘scratch’ sound effects along with the music and will groove along to any song it hears.  Owners can plug their music systems directly into I-CAT Interactive Music Companion and music will broadcast through a built-in speaker.  Simply petting I-CAT will allow owners to mix things up and play meows, purrs and ‘scratch’ sound effects with the music!   Owners can play these sound effects along with the music depending on how they touch or pet I-CAT, making this new interactive pet the cat’s meow!

Owners can also sit I-CAT in front of a speaker or plug it into the headphone jack of any music system and I-CAT will move and groove to the rhythm of the song.  In addition, I-CAT Interactive Music Companion comes complete with a dual jack so that its owner can plug their headphones in and dance along to the music with I-CAT.  Either way the owner chooses to listen to their favorite tune, as soon as I-CAT hears music, its face will light up or its ears and head will wiggle and sway with the tune.  

There’s also an i-Dog. I might have to get one for my desk at work

In the “if I had infinite money” category of gadget lust, I present to you the DVDO iScan VP30, which is a nifty little box o tricks that takes any video signal known to man and scales it up to lovely crisp High Definition quality, to be shown on a very large HD projector (in my infinite money world, anyway). It’s retail price is a tiny bit under $2000… eek!

The neat trick is that you can plug existing s-video, composite, component or RGB sources into it, as well as newer high definition HDCP sources…. and it will scale them all!

For extra bonkersness, you can buy a package of a very high end DVD player & the iScan VP30 in a package with ‘SDI’ modification to get an extremely high quality digital connection between them. (SDI is what actual film/TV production companies use to move their video about the place). The ultimate in home DVD movie watching (sans speakers, amplifier or projector) for ‘just’ $2,899.

You’ve only got a couple of days left to bid on the amazing iTablet. It’s an old Apple iBook that has had major modding to make it into a tablet device – the screen has been swapped and a touch sensitive one added. It’s a very nicely done job, described on MacMod here.  The auction itself is here.

P.S. I’ve finally restarted work on my own mac mod, and am about 30% of the way through squeezing all the guts back into the little mac case. Am just awaiting some more supplies and hopefully it will be finished this week / weekend.  Phew!

So, for all you PC users out there, you can now download a preview of the new Internet Explorer from Microsoft.

Ok, so it’s no Firefox but actually it’s not bad – it supports tabbed browsing, RSS feeds, proper PNG support at last, better security and generally it’s really pretty good!

Now I just need to work out how to make my comment feeds show up correctly in it and I’ll be happy

Oh yes; for reference, this site will still look its best in Firefox – but IE7 actually comes very close now. Hooray!

Download link: Microsoft IE7 beta 2

Like a lot of ex-20six-ers I’ve moved to WordPress and am still getting to grips with it (ooh, the raw power!).

One of the things I miss from 20six is being subscribed to any comments once you’ve made a comment in someone else’s blog. I have a few ideas on how to fix that – but that’s for another day. Today I’m going to tell you how you can keep track of comments.
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