More than simple IT news!
Now Kindle owners can trade in their old models and receive credit for a new one, or anything else that Amazon sells. Its kind of like taking your old, read books to the bookstore and trading them in for new ones. Almost.
Any Kindle can be traded, from the white elephant that is the oversized DX to the original Kindle. As with all traditional in trade ins, you wont get much for it. The DX is at the top of the heap, and will fetch you $135 in mint condition.
YouTube’s trying out a new redesign named, for some reason, Cosmic Panda, giving a sleeker, darker look and improving customization options.
Gone is the traditional all-white page. Videos are now set off against a darker background to lower the contrast and make the whole thing easier on the eye. There’s also a lot less text, making for a more modern look with less to distract the viewer.
There are bigger thumbnails for each video, and they now appear immediately below the video that’s playing. And the videos themselves can be seen in two different sizes, as well as full-screen.
A new beta has been released for Apple’s iOS 5. Announced at Apple’s developer’s conference at the beginning of the month, iOS 5 is said to offer 200 new features. We already know a bit about Notification Center, iMessage, the split keyboard for the iPad, and a texting shortcut. However, with the iOS 5 beta 2 recently released to developers, we’re being clued in on some more of the new features of the mobile operating system.
Here’s what’s new:
The pitch for the new Terminator film is calling for all hands on deck
We already know that, after a few other projects are out of the way, Arnold Schwarzenegger, body-builder turned actor turned governor turned actor again, will be returning to his most famous role as a robot from the future in a new Terminator film
More details about that pitch, which is working under the title Terminator 2012, were released today
Director Justin Lin wants to center the film around a revival of the entire original cast, by which I assume he means Linda Hamilton and Mick Biehn, who played the damsel in distress and the hero respectively in the first Terminator film, while Schwarzenegger played the villain
Unfortunately, that’s all we’ve got so far, and those other actors have not yet commented on the plan
It is a mystery how this would even work What kind of story could be made from the reunion of these three actors, all now twenty seven years older than they were when they filmed The Terminator?
It’s time to check in with the world of music and your friends at mxdwn.com in this week’s Unplugging column. This week’s column features news on two huge festival announcements.
All Tomorrow’s Parties is finally returning to the United States this September in Ausbury Park NJ, and this time with a once in a lifetime lineup. Portishead will be in attendance and will curate and headline their first East Coast shows since 1998 on Saturday and Sunday of the three day event. On Friday night, All Tomorrow’s Parties will curate and are excited to present Jeff Mangum in his first large public show of Neutral Milk Hotel songs in over a decade. Onl