Parallels users would have noticed 3.0 is around the corner and may have been surprised with the cost of the upgrade, I sure was. The features are excellent, especially the 3d graphics support and the snapshot capability. I’m using fusion for one of my environments and I’d have to say VMware has a lot to do to catch up to Parallels. Ever since fusion was released it offered a lot power user settings, including snapshots and 64 bit support. Now all they have is the 64 bit support which isn’t much since 64bit OSes haven’t caught on except for OS X non-complete 64bit support in Tiger.
Fedora 7 released
Fedora 7, the latest version of the popular community-driven Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, was released this morning. This is the first Fedora release to incorporate and unify both the Core and Extra platform components, thus obviating the need for the traditional inclusion of the word “Core” in the distribution’s name. This is also the first release to be constructed with Fedora’s new build system, which will vastly simplify development of custom versions and derivatives.
I’m looking forward to the new release although I’m not sure if the new wireless driver updates are going to support the N card in my macbook.
iTunes launched their iTunes plus today and it looks like that DRM Free music is being tagged with your name. Not a surprise not a big deal since this would only matter to the people who like to share illegally. For those few I’m sure they’ll figure out a way to change that name to something 1337.
This is awesome. No need for the plugin that doesn’t work (doesn’t support streaming). But I wonder what’s going to happen to my modifications when the Apple TV does a system update, hopefully it just adds the plugin like any other.
[Update]
Looks like we’ll be getting HD downloads soon, later cable. And the iPhone is going to support 3rd party but they’re concerned with “security” (another WWTF? from Stevie).
I might as well complete my planned post about Google apps since a conversation is about to start.
I’ve been in the transition of using Google Apps for the last few weeks for a trial review. Next week I’ll need to decide whether to keep my apps account or stick with the free apps that 
I’m so dependent on. Since the my reasoning for using Google apps is solely based on my use of e-mail and the guaranteed uptime and support I can’t say anything more about the additional features that I plan to never use (start page, talk, etc.).
Although I do use Google Calendar and having that provided uptime is a major plus.
The problems I have with moving to Google apps is the limitation of taking my already existing gmail account. It wasn’t a problem importing my years of email into the new account through gmails provided pop support nor is it a problem emailing in the new account as @gmail, the problem is being dependent on e-mail forwarding with my @gmail.com. I’m not positive but I’m imagining if gmail is not allowing me to login it’s not forwarding my email, then the uptime means nothing.
The only solution is to transition an email change which fully makes sense because I wont be dependent on a service long term. Of course I like having @gmail rather than dan@[anyone of my domains I decide] and not having to tell everyone to update my e-mail more than I distrust Google’s future. I’ll go on record that I still do not feel locked-in but things would be different if I wasn’t so dependent on @gmail.
So for $50 a year isn’t unreasonable to me it’s having to change my e-mail or changing my Talk account. I use Talk daily especially at work where I talk to developers continuesly and I refer to my chat history a lot. It being an excellent BlackBerry app also helps. And chat history is something I can’t forward to my new account so I would have to login to my gmail to retrieve it.
For my Calendar and docs I just exported and imported them without a problem. however I did have to setup the sharing again with Sara since we both manage each others cal.
Only if Google allowed a gmail upgrade service or the integration between a Google app and Google account because that’s really what’s making me hesitant. Its a shame for them since the money isn’t an issue. I can’t guarantee any uptime like that for $4 a month and e-mail is too critical to grovel at. My issues are e-mail forwarding dependency (or having to chang my e-mail address) and not having the gmail history integration for Talk.
Is anyone using my ajax style switcher on this site? Is it just not noticeable enough?
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May 24
I meant to post about finally noticing Google Cal’s mobile interface which is going to help me a lot since I’ve been having syncing issues and GCal does house all of my calenders. And what timing because it turns out that they just released it. I’m still waiting for the app though.
I just posted my thoughts about the island’s mystery, the future plot and some other things including Locke’s actual death. As you can tell I have Lost on the brain right now.
I’m not sure who engadget mobile or BGR about the release date for my next phone but it does look like I’m going to be waiting a long time for the phone I really want. Which is a Curve with GPS and WiFi; both of which were original features. I’d understand WiFi becuase the carriers don’t want it but GPS, even the 8800 has GPS.
