Tuesday Tech Talk #54

Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. Lets see what has been going on over the past week.

New Mac hardware

You do remember that Apple also makes these great computers call Mac’s right? Well we could be seeing some updated Mac Pro’s, iMac’s, and Cinema Display’s later today according to John Gruber of Daring Fireball. I’m pretty much set on the Mac hardware front for a while myself but I always love to see the new stuff come out and what it is sporting under the hood.

iLife ’10 with mysterious new application

We could also be seeing a new version of iLife next month and according to a site called Mac 4 Ever from France, it may be adding a new application and doing away with iDVD. Also iLife will be written in 64-bit and the iDVD will be available as a download if needed. It will also have improved integration with social networks. It also states an August 7th release date (Saturday), it is unlikely for Apple to release a software application on a weekend as it usually a Tuesday release or sometime during the work week. Stay tuned!

Microsoft to give employees free Windows Phone 7 devices

Call it a perk, I call it Microsoft’s attempt inflate its mobile phone market. Course we all know how well the Kin did.

Google Image Search now with Ads

Google announced last week a new way for advertisers to push their products via Google’s Image search. Like it does with link searches, photos of similar things you search for will pop up at the top. For example if you typed in “Converse” then a link for Converse Shoes will be below a picture of their latest shoes. I haven’t tried to search for “lower intestines” yet to see what that will pull up though.

Verizon going to limited data plans

Boy these cell phone companies remind me of the airline industry, when one company makes a change in their data plans, the other follows. Course with AT&T and Verizon being the 2 biggest out there, look for them to set the industry standard on data plans. Yes, the all you can eat data plan is going the way of airlines not charging you for bags unless you fly on Southwest of course.

Joss Whedon to Direct The Avengers

The biggest announcements to come out of Comic-Con in San Diego this week was that Joss Whedon of Firefly fame will indeed direct The Avengers movie and that Mark Ruffalo will be playing the Hulk in it and not Edward Norton.

Sorry but no app reviews this week. Just haven’t really played with anything new in the past week. Thanks for coming by and see you all next Tuesday!