Tonight at 6pm Apple will live stream information about their latest releases including (probably) a release date for Yosemite, perhaps a new iPad Air and iPad mini, (perhaps) a new Mac Mini, a new Apple TV and more.
Will you be watching it? What excites you most about it?
As I did last year with my website, I have decided to theme my site based on events like Halloween. This year the site is totally different from last year with a special font for the top and the headers. The site will still work as before, only some parts will look different.
Enjoy.
Here is some very simple BlackRabbit Script code that is used to perform multiple tasks. Can you figure out from the simple commands what it does at each point?
//Copyright JBALFOURDTP //13/10/2014 //BlackRabbit Script version: 2.2.2.467 function main() //Main method goes here //Case insensitive welcome hey -> Welcome to my application name -> Jamie Name -> Balfour echo ("Hello") get_yes_no("hey name "Name". Press Yes to continue the program.") %result -> bb.*return get_yes_no("Result is "'%result') if(%result == "Yes") output("That is the desired result") else output("That is incorrect") endif $i = 0 $y = $i output($y) while($i < 5) $i++ call (message) endwhile endfunction function message() output("i is" $i "and y is" $y) $y = add($y, 5) $z = multiply($y, $i) endfunction
Saturday the 18th of October 2014 is the date set for the Apple Store's opening in Edinburgh. The Princes Street store has been long awaited and is set to be a wonderful addition to all the Apple Stores across the world. I cannot wait myself!
It's not new news that Apple is having it's next major product event on the 16th this month. I along with others am very excited and cannot wait to see what gets released.
For starters, the iPad will probably receive an update. Some believe that the way Apple will amalgamate the MacBook and iPad is by releasing an 'iPad Pro' - a larger and more powerful iPad. Others believe it also may run on a combination of Mac OS X and perhaps iOS as well.
Another major announcement could be the final release of Mac OS X Yosemite (for those who do not know, this is pronounced yo-sem-it-ee) which is currently in it's 5th beta release.
Another possible release is the iMac with Retina display. This has been a long awaited upgrade for the iMacs which are falling behind their mobile counterparts because of this. A Retina display would up the resolution on the 21 inch model to about 3840 by 2160 and the resolution on the 27 inch to about 5120 by 2880 if they doubled pixel density again.
A final possiblity is the release of a new Mac Mini. Apple's affordable bring your own keyboard, mouse and display Mac for all has not been updated since 2012. It's a shame for me because I really wanted a small Mac desktop that I can use particularly for storing data safely. If the Mac Mini is re-designed, it will likely look like a small version of the (in my opinion) ugly Mac Pro, which will likely mean that all ways of expanding the system will be completely removed - which would be sad.
Until then, we'll just have to wait, only three days to go!
For the last few days, until today, my website has been suffering from some troubles due to server problems. I would like to say that the server is running fine now and my website displays correctly.
I have not been adding a lot of content to my site because of the fact that I have resumed university, but I would like to point out that the Python tutorials are coming along now.
Within the next year or so I intend to extend my tutorials further by adding 10 new tutorials in the following:
- Apache webservers
- BlackRabbit Script
- C#
- CodeIgniter
- CSS
- Java
- JavaScript
- Java Server Pages
- Latex
- Python (I'm learning more about this day by day)
My last post mentioned that Minecraft 1.8 was released just two weeks ago this Wednesday. Now in a slightly saddening way Microsoft announced it had bought the company behind it - Mojang.
Now this is not necessarily a bad thing, just a worrying thing (there is no way to tell which way it will go at the moment). Minecraft has been nice as an indie game, albeit a very successful one, but now it will just join another collection of games Microsoft produces.
I have written numerous times that Microsoft try too hard to enter every marketplace and product range out there.In my opinion, they ruined some of their best products out there such as integrating Windows Live Messenger with Skype, Nokia by giving them Windows Phone and my personal favourite, Rare or "RareWare" back in the day by transforming them from a small company to one that works for Microsoft.
Analysts have said that Microsoft should break up into smaller companies but unfortunately they are still not going that way and obtaining more and more smaller companies.
I just hope that Mojang and Minecraft are not consumed by Microsoft and become a tiny little project nobody works on.
Although it was some few days ago, on the 2nd September Minecraft 1.8 was released! I just wanted to mention this on my blog!
Links are now fully working as demonstrated in some of the other posts that have links. This works with updates and new posts. Here is a nice link: apple.com. The update page is also fixed now meaning that posts can be updated properly.
Coming soon:
- Multi-blog post (inspired by the fact I post JBlogs posts on two blogs)
- Delete a post from admin pages
- Create user page
- Subscribe page
- Install page
- Better information architecture
- Better image support
- Banner photos from the post page
