Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gas for the week the gadget of the week is the new apple imac of course just announced this week the new imac is thinner than the old model and it's now made of glass and aluminum instead of the previous white plastic it features a new glossy display and slightly faster intel core 2 duo configurations but what i really like about the new imac is that it's so much more recyclable than the old models yep apple's really taking an eco-friendly tone here so go on check out your impossible to recycle mercury Laden old imac that you bought less than two years ago and run down and get a fancy new eco imac you'll feel so much better about yourself and now for the news this week Apple held another one of those events where they invite the press down to the Cupertino headquarters for an announcement that we all know isn't going to be a big deal but is nevertheless slightly disappointing when it doesn't turn out to be a big deal but this particular press conference was well I'm not gonna say it was boring it was boring I was there in fact let me take you back let me recap it a little bit so the new imac starting at 11 99 okay so there's the new imac we mentioned earlier which you know fine and then whoo boy we get to watch the new commercial oh i'm sorry i actually use that time to send some updates to twitter was John Hodgman in it yeah I didn't think so okay then we moved on to iPhoto which near as I can tell basically just does something new and fancy with like albums it takes these groups of photos which we call events and it automatically makes events out of them so that you don't have to do it manually and this is what I photo 08 is all about it's about events pretty cool huh come on who is clapping people is a press briefing show yourselves you shills now onto iMovie we get to watch Steve Jobs make its own little masterpiece I'm gonna go ahead and make a movie and show you how easy it is oh there's fun thing right here with these guys go like that okay i'll put that movie and you know you just just know I'm gonna put something at the beginning of the movie there's just some just some you know a scene of some of the mountains and I've made a movie here so let's just take a look like watch it full screen if I want oh and finally the big highlight of the day the updates to I work it's got a spreadsheet net and we call it numbers I got headers and footers oh yes actually see now that is fabulous just wonderful Bravo Apple and other fine performance Bravo now to give Microsoft it's due in the spanking Department the company has officially released two hotfix updates for Windows Vista that deal with some serious performance and reliability issues now the updates are not yet automatically available through windows update because microsoft hasn't released them on its normal monthly patch release schedule but after the fixes were leaked online over a week ago Microsoft decided that if you really want them you can at least download them from the website if you really want them you know so that your computer won't spontaneously restart when you're using the desktop or so that you don't have to keep hard rebooting due to a display driver error message that kills the whole machine that kind of thing so yeah thanks i think i will take that update microsoft thanks for getting around to it myspace has announced that is partnering with satirical news site the onion to offer audio video and print content on the giant social networking site in a related story the new york times issued this baffling press release the children are lost we surrender god help you all huh what could that mean and my prediction would be the google CEO eric schmidt has finally answered the question that we've all been wondering what's web 3-pointer gonna look like he recently spoke at a digital forum and said that unlike the ajax based web architecture of web two point oh web three pointer will be characterized by small fast customizable applications that store data remotely and promulgate virally making use of mobile devices and social networking but will it have the funny names because i really like the funding i'm molly wood and this has been the bus report thanks for watching