05/11/2007, 6:00pm, EDT

Friday, May 11th

Briefly: review; Microsoft "oPhone" spoof

In brief: MacNN has reviewed Music Man from Mireth Technology, and Inside Mac Radio hosts are holding a free photo walk through San Francisco at the World Wide Developers Conference. MacJams.com in conjunction with BeatHive have released a free 40MB collection of Apple Loops, and a mock video has surfaced of a fictional Microsoft branded "oPhone." MacNN has reviewed Mireth Technology's Music Man ($30 boxed, $20 for download) audio software for organizing, ripping, converting, burning, and playing MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, and MIDI files. Music Man features a simple tabbed interface that lets users prepare to burn discs, play media, and more.

"oPhone" mock Microsoft ad

A mock video has surfaced on YouTube advertising a fictional "oPhone" presumably produced by Microsoft. The phone is shown as a strange triple-layered device that is difficult to use. The video also appears to interview the developers of the phone, revealing distorted engineering views and ironic statements from a would-be software developer.

Free Apple Loops, San Francisco photo walk

Inside Mac radio hosts Scott Sheppard and Brad Write are preparing to lead a free photo walk through the city of San Francisco, allowing attendees to take photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset, as well as Alcatraz Island and other attractions; The walk will start at the Moscone Center where Apple is scheduled to hold its World Wide Developers Conference at 4:00 p.m. on June 11th.... MacJams and BeatHive have released a free 40MB collection of Apple Loops from BeatHive's recently announced "Best of BeatHive" DVD with more than 1,200 loops from community producers.

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l008com

umm

05/11, 6:09pm, EDT

that was made by microsoft? Cause it sure seemed to be making fun of microsoft, and how clueless they are?

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Spoof

05/11, 6:52pm, EDT

spoof |spo?f| informal noun 1 a humorous imitation of something, typically a film or a particular genre of film, in which its characteristic features are exaggerated for comic effect : a Robin Hood spoof. 2 a trick played on someone as a joke. verb [ trans. ] 1 imitate (something) while exaggerating its characteristic features for comic effect : it is a movie that spoofs other movies. 2 hoax or trick (someone) : they proceeded to spoof Western intelligence with false information. • interfere with (radio or radar signals) so as to make them useless.

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Mock

05/11, 6:53pm, EDT

mock |mäk| verb [ trans. ] tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner : he mocks them as Washington insiders | [as adj. ] ( mocking) the mocking hostility in his voice made her wince. • make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible : at Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretense of peace. • mimic (someone or something) scornfully or contemptuously.

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l008com

05/11, 6:57pm, EDT

l008com |looz er| [noun] 1 Does not know how to read and gets mocked by spoof definition.

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gskibum3

AT&T?

05/11, 11:53pm, EDT

So long as I don't have to change my carrier to AT&T-Cingular I'd buy one! :)

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rtbarry

massively...

05/12, 3:36pm, EDT

...unfunny. who wastes this much effort to, at best, create a tiny chortle.

and some awesome writing by MacNN, as usual. i can see where people think 'the spoof was produced by MS'. since they have been known to do such things internally, and the MacNN article is typically ambiguous.

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I don't know...

05/13, 9:26am, EDT

I don't know why so many people are whining about having to change to cingular/att to use the iPhone. It's like complaining that you'll have to trade in your piece of junk old car for the most advanced thing on wheels. I have had cingular since 2005 and i've never dropped a call from my end, and changing to a new phone is as simple as shuffling all your contacts onto the sim card, or, easier yet, if you have bluetooth, you can do it via iSync with your mac. Everyone i know with a carrier other than cingular complains about their service and signal coverage area. You can tell how desperate these other companies are to keep you away from cingular by their annoying tv ads. Anyways, if you want iPhone, you need to switch to the company with the best network. That's just how it is.

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Re: i don't know

05/13, 10:15pm, EDT

Hey, fast ibook, its nice that you think Cingular is the 'best' network. However, a lot of people don't think its the best, nor close to it. And Cingular's ads are as annoying as the rest.

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