BlackBerry Versus iPhone

If you're a reader of this blog, then you already know I'm a Macfanatic. I'm biased (but smarter than you if you don't agree).

Pardon me while I applaud about the article in InfoWeek, an admittedly pro-PC publication, which says that it's time to bury the BlackBerry and get an iPhone.

Yes, it was Mac versus PC all over again: The iPhone was quickly pigeonholed as a fun, polished device for the cool kids to play with versus the RIM BlackBerry's rep as a corporate standard designed to get work done. As with the Mac-versus-PC dichotomy, Apple's focus on visual interface, exotic technologies like touch, and fun stuff (music, video, and games), coupled with its lack of "serious" capabilities such as encryption, let that perception take root as the conventional wisdom....

[But] how do they stack up? Frankly, I’ve concluded it’s time to bury the BlackBerry. A revolution in its time, thanks to its ability to provide instant, secure e-mail anywhere, the BlackBerry has become the Lotus Notes of the mobile world: It’s way past its prime.

Essential QuickTime Component

Warning .... geek alert! For reasons with which I won't bore you here, I recently chose to re-install OSX onto my PowerBook. Apple's built-in software update gnomes quickly brought all of the native applications back up to date with the latest versions.

Unfortunately, this meant that my registered copy of QuickTime was restored to barenakedsoftware originality, and I had lost the ability to convert and save every possible video format to, well, every possible video format. I quickly re-located on teh Internets this handy essential codec package. If you want to capture, save, convert, and retain anything you see on the 'net, make sure you download Perian.

The below video is an example of how I've utilized QT and Perian. There are no less than five different types of video files merged into a one (I chose .dv as the release format). I created this piece at the request of a friend who produced a Black History Month celebration. You'll just have to take my word for it, but the high-definition version looked pretty darn cool when projected onto the huge screen in the auditorium.