one zombie in a billion

Normally I don’t really care about this kind of thing, but the new mac ads are pretty funny. More so, I think, than the previous adverts as they poke fun at Microsoft’s odd method of trying to change perception through adverts and celebrity endorsements, whilst not actually fixing the product.

So the new iPhone 3G with GPS is out, camera’s still the same which is a bit disappointing. But the new model is only £99 which is a vast improvement on the old price and kudos to Apple/O2 for an actual currency conversion of the American price ($199), normally that never happens here!

On my tariff, £35 a month, it’s an extra £99 for the new phone, on the £45 tariff the upgrade is free. Still I think I’d prefer a one off £99 payment rather than an extra £120 a year.

Pixelmator is a very neat new graphics application for the mac, basically it’s a lot like Photoshop Elements but with a lighter price tag of $59.
What I really like about it is the slick Aperture-like ui and integration with .mac for backup and ilife with an iphoto panel, not to mention the inspired isight integration.

While at the moment it really isn’t a contender to the business pull that Adobe’s CS3 suite has, I do like the idea of using this for smaller projects where vector editing isn’t required. Grouped with ilife, textmate and coda, a web designer/developer can put together quite a powerful web production suite for less than the cost of a single component of the CS3 library.

This is awesome, a series of British Get a Mac adverts with the brilliant Mitchell and Webb of Peepshow fame. Maybe it’s a local thing but I’m finding these far more humourous than the originals.