Steve jobs goes onstage at exactly 10.01am PDT. He gets his “partner in crime” Steve Wozniak to stand up. He starts off with updating people about Apple retail, showing them the new Paris store and showing a badass new Apple store in China with kick ass circular glass entrance! Informing us that there are 300 Apple stores in 10 countries (11 soon with addition of spain). Says that some days over 1 million people come in! Doing one to ones, about 80000 a week.

After he finishes talking about stores, he starts talking about iOS, says how its a revolution in apps. How many iOS devices shipped since launch? 120 million. New iOS activations a day? 230,000~ (doesn’t include updates). 6.5 billion downloaded apps from appstore. 200 apps a second are being download. 25,00 iPad apps.

iOS 4.1, whats new?

• Bugs fixed (Bluetooth, 3G, etc). High Dynamic Range Photos. HD video upload via wifi. Game Center. TV Show rentals.
• HDR takes 3 photos that are high, low and normal exposure photos, combines them to create a HDR photo (which looks awesome)!
• Game Center is a api for devs and a app for users, multi-player games, challenge friends, a loner? auto-matches people! Match scores and see what people are playing! Mike something-something from Epic, comes on stage. Uses unreal engine (like gears of war). Showcases “Project Sword”, looks cool.

Steve Job says he’s got a “surprise” for us. Sneak peek of iOS 4.2. Brings everything to iPad. wireless printing.

Airplay. Stream videos, songs and photos to devices via wifi. Now showcase multitasking on iPad. Everything we’ve seen on iPhone iOS 4.

• Now move on to iPods. 275 million iPods sold. Secret to iPod’s success? Constantly upgrading. This year they’ve gone “crazy”. New redesigns to all iPods models! New iPod shuffle is smaller than 2nd gen, has buttons, voiceover and playlists, genius mixes, 15 hours of music, 5 different colours. $49 pricetag.
• iPod Nano is small, has multi-touch screen, very small, has a clip. 46% smaller, 42% lighter. Volume buttons. Voice over. Radio. Nike+. 24 hours battery life. Can over icons. Can change screen orientation. 7 colours. $149 for 8gb model, $179 for 16gb model.
• iPod Touch is the most popular iPod ever. Became #1 portable game player in the world, out sells Nintendo and Sony combined. New iPod Touch is thiner. small top and bottom. Has retina display (4x pixels, 326ppi, 24 bit colour, LED blacklight). Apple A4 Ship. 3-axis Gyro. Has front facing camera, will now have facetime (between iPhones and iPod Touches)! Back camera with HD Video. 40 hours of music playback! 8gb for  $229, 32gb for $299, 64gb for $399.
• All shipping next week! (can pre-order atm)

iTunes, downloaded 11.7 billion songs downed. 450 million tv shows download. 1oo million movies. 35 million books. 160 million accounts with credit card. iTunes 10. New logo. Ditched CD. Discovery, introduces ‘Ping’, Facebook and twitter meets iTunes, a music social network, can follow people, custom top 10s, what concerts one is going to, has a feed, Social music discovery, privacy, approved followers, circle of friends. Ping on computer and on appstore.

One more thing hobby… Apple TV, not a big hit, but users love them. Want Movies and TV on demand, want HD, lower prices, don’t want a computer on tv. Don’t want to manage storage. Don’t want to sync. Want it to be silent, cool and small. This what they’ve learned. New Apple TV is smaller. 4th size of old ATV. On back, power cord, HDMI, Audio and ethernet cable. Has wifi. Comes with remote. all HD. All rentals, no purchases. Rental price is cheap! All streaming to it. Stunning photo slideshows. $4.99 for first run HD movies, same release! 99c for HD TV shows, no commercials including ABC and Fox. Also has support for netflick subscription. YouTube and Flickr and Radio and podcasts and MobileMe. Simple UI. Has previews. All info like IMDB. Stream, via AirPlay, content from iOS device to Apple TV. Pricetag is $99

So the pasta and Italian food company, Roma, sent me their new Roma Pizza and Pasta Flour to try out. Roma pretty much did an anti-St.Patrick and brought pasta to the masses in Ireland in the 1950′s under the name Dublin Macaroni Company. Right history lesson over, lets get to the flour!

So I’m sitting here with a bag of flour infront of me. Doesn’t look special, kinda heavy, if I throw a stick it doesn’t fetch it, so whats the big deal? Imagine your kitchen as a blackboard and the Roma Pizza and Pasta Flour as the chalk, you can create so much with the flour within the kitchen! I decided to make pizza, doesn’t sound too adventurous does it? Im the guy who two weeks ago tried to bake a rasher for an hour, so yeah, making pizza was kinda a big deal!

Looking for Inspiration and the ingredients

The packaging fairly idiot proof, theres instructions on how to make pizza dough and pasta on the back and all…. I’ve just been informed the correct term is recipe, who knew? They also have a handy collection of these “recipes” on their website!

So I start off following the recipe for pizza dough on the back of the packaging. Now the recipe was really easy to follow, nothing major. When I was making it, it was just, simple. When I had made the dough, it was the right mixture of strong and yet easy to shape, not breaking apart. kneading it and rolling it was like beating up a cloud, so soft and easy to shift. After it finished rising for around an hour, a little confusing to what knocking it back was, I lay it on a baking tray, rolled it around, BAM, added some Puree, BAM, added some cheese, BAM, added some ham, I felt pretty badass. I shoved my first ever homemade pizza into the oven preheated at 200°C and kicked backed.

Suffice to say I had no idea what I was doing

15-20 minutes later I came back and took out, probably the greatest thing I’ve made since pancakes, outta the oven. Despite my novice chef ‘skillz’, and that my pizza looked more like something out of a Salvador Dali painting, it tasted pretty epic, like eating candy floss, dreams and magic…. so basically like eating a unicorn or something.

You can cook the dough to a soft or crispy base, with varying levels of thickness dependent on how you like your pizza. The base stays strong and won’t fall apart on you. The Roma Flour based base really amplifies all the toppings that sit atop it. In addition to smelling nice (sounds weird), it is also really filling.

Before and after the oven…

Pizza is just one of the many things you can create with flour! You can find Roma Pizza and Pasta Flour in all good supermarkets, if not, send an angry letter to the manager of that supermarket demanding it or he’ll never see his dog again.

Still a ‘work in progress’ , but before that hour I won’t even walk backwards (note: Over exaggeration)

Super awesome crazy kickass thanks to Aimee O’Driscoll who taught me this and filmed, she is awesome! (her blog | twitter)

Trauma board inside, Halo speed loader with a virtue soft crown, fires at 30bps at a speed of 300fps, fuck yeah…

V, is a remake of the classic cult mini-series, the filming and editing style is similar to that of the movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ or the popular tv series ‘Heroes’, the kind of ‘realistic-oh I could see how that happening’ style, the story focuses around various characters and the happenings around them.

Now I was about 7-8 years off the original which first aired in 1984, however I did watch all of them and subsequently discussed in depth with my cousin. The original was groundbreaking, even a good 20 years later I had’nt seen anything like it!

Now because I know where its ultimately gonna end up, its hard to write this without spoiling anything. So what can we tell from the first episode? Well to sum it up, aliens appear in about 15 massive ships. they are humanoids (they look like humans basically), they say they thought they were the only intelligent life forms, they found earth, they need rations, blah blah blah. They act all kind and they share their technologies, heal people with aliments and show them around their ships.

Now an interesting thing as  pointed out by an character is that at the start they all love the ‘V’s (name of the alien race), which starts to turn into obsession and then can turn into worship, We see this starting up within 2 young characters. The character who suggest this obsession to worship chain is interesting, as he is one of the only cautious one initially, trying to tell others to be careful.

How does it measure up to the original? Well the remake is more drawn out than the original, it may seem they want to have this new series run longer, however the newer is more realistic than the original.

The first episode aired last night in the states, (if the link is still valid) you can watch it here: http://www.zshare.net/video/67937329f1b5ce86/

Well alot of us are procastinators, let’s face it, from the small things to the big, ergo proper blogging is a bitch, it constantly requires new entries to justify it’s existance or good quality material, eventually the gimick wears off if there’s no reward involved be it financal or getting a high after posting an entry, I take my hat to Tommy Collison ( http://trusttommy.com ) who keeps on trucking in a blogging sense and the feedback is really starting to show! For the simpleton like me, who have a blog at the backass of nowhere on the net, it’s sorta depressing to see little to none feedback.

I’m gonna follow the basic blogging rules, short but sweet, blog often, only what others find interesting, blah blah blah and I’m gonna try crack this blogging system.

Either that or I’ll revert to my usual procastination
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