New Domains, New Ventures and New Business
Posted on October 19, 2005
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Yes you’re probably wondering how you entered this strange new domain? Whats this new URL? This is the new home of my persoan digital existance, welcome to marstononline.com. Yes its not the most original name but atleast it wasn’t taken yet.
Quantum Register is being phased out and all traffic is being directed here, so you might want to take note. I’m still checking my marston@quantumregister.com email but my new main personal email will be: marston@marstononline.com
So there are many things going on with me. Web design and development is taking off and I’m getting all my business ties with that up and running well. Also being launched soon is Marston Innovation, which will be the center for my business ventures with web design and web hosting. I have procured my web servers and am finishing the last configurations before I go live with everything but I’ll be sure to post an update. Good bye for now.
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Posted on October 19, 2005
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts
Widescreen powerbooks & Dual-core G5’s at the Apple store.
Posted on October 19, 2005
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New dual-core G5’s in 3 configurations: 1 x Dual-core 2.0Ghz, 1 x Dual-core 2.3Ghz and 2 x Dual-core 2.5Ghz. 1MB L2 Cache per core and GeForce 6600 video.
17” Wide-screen G4 Powerbook with 1680×1050 resolution, DDR2 Ram, 120GB HD and superdrive. No CPU speed increase and no upgraded videocard.
New Aperture post production photography suite.
read more | digg story
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Posted on October 19, 2005
Filed Under Apple, Tech
Apple Updates
Posted on October 13, 2005
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As announced yesterday, Apple has come out with some great updates and whats even more interesting new industry deals for digital video and software.
New Ipod
It is true: A video Ipod. 30Gb and 60Gb versions in the sleek “nano” black & white themes and is 30% slimmer than the previous ipod. This replaces the old ipod line so now the entire ipod line is streamlined. You have the shuffle, the nano then the ipod which now does photos and videos.
“Time for the world’s best music player to take the stage for another encore. In 30GB and 60GB(1) models that hold up to 15,000(2) songs, full-color album art and up to 25,000 photos(3), the new iPod makes the most of your music and more. Yeah, you’ve heard that tune before. Only now, you can watch it, too. With support for up to 150 hours(4) of video and a 2.5-inch color display, the new iPod lets you take music videos and TV shows on the road.”
New Imac
The new Imac has CPU upgrades, video card upgrades, built-in Isight, new frontrow media center like software to easily access all your digital content from one are (Music, Photos, Video) and a new remote to control frontrow. Its a slimmer version and also comes with a mighty mouse. 
“What if you could command an entire world of music, photos, movies and DVDs — all from your sofa? Now you can share the good life with friends and family on a 17- or 20-inch new iMac G5 featuring Front Row software and Apple Remote. Slimmer than ever, the gravity-defying enclosure also houses built-in iSight, SuperDrive, wireless and the easy-to-use software that brings it all together. Modern living starts at only $1299. (Mighty Mouse not sold separately.)”
Wow…take that music industry
So, as many may know the music industry has been whining and complaining and pressuring apple to raise its itunes music store download costs but Steve Jobs has not budged one bit. Now the video ipod is out and they have upgrade the itunes music store to include music videos, TV shows and movies.
Now this is the best part…
Songs go for $0.99cents a song, music videos and TV shows go for $1.99 each!!! Steve Jobs knows the guys are Disney who of course own ABC who have the #1 and #2 shows on the planet at the moment. It is going to be very hard to justify raising prices for $0.99 cent songs when people can get full music videos and TV shows for $0.99 cents more.
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Posted on October 13, 2005
Filed Under Apple, Tech
Dutch smash 100,000 strong zombie army
Posted on October 10, 2005
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Well well well… So atleast I know that in the last 8 months of not doing ANYTHING regarding processing my residency permit application the Dutch gov has atleast been up some covert operations in the computer security underworld.
Dutch police have arrested three people for building a worldwide zombie network of more than 100,000 PCs used to launch internet attacks on companies and to hack into bank and Paypal accounts.
Heres the article at the register.
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Posted on October 10, 2005
Filed Under Ranting, Security, Tech
Keep. It. Simple.
Posted on October 10, 2005
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One of my favorite phrases indeed. Simple, clean and efficient solutions to simple problems seem to be a common theme these days…and I LOVE IT! Maybe because that how I tend to approach things, maybe because it makes life simpler and the world a better place…who knows.
Here is another interesting read from the Jason over at 37signals titled: Less as a competitive advantage: My 10 minutes at Web 2.0.
It particularly pertains to my situation, specifically talking about 1) less people and 2) less money. Its all about perspective and how you look at things. There is no doubt in my mind I can turn these so called “disadvantages” into “advantages”. And I’m doing just that.
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Posted on October 10, 2005
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts, Productivity
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