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“The red icon on your iPhone or iPod touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were rich enough to afford this. It’s a work of art with no hidden function at all.”

via wrongdistance.com

Artists and producers work hard in the studio perfecting their sound, but people can’t really hear it with normal headphones. Most headphones can’t handle the bass, the detail, the dynamics. Bottom line: the music doesn’t move you. With Beats, people are going to hear what the artists hear and listen to the music the way they should– the way I do.

Beats by Dr. Dre Headphones

Another image editor for OS X is in town…

Designed from the ground up specifically for Mac users, Iris provides a powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use solution for all your photo editing needs.

[via Todd Dominey]

Chris Prillio enthusiastically links us to “Secrets” a nice prefpane to get at hidden app settings.

The idea of “my computer as my music library and my iPod is my walkman” was very quickly adopted. Conversely, it’s very interesting to see how slowly people are adopting the same strategy in regards to video. But, I see the shift starting to happen.

Personally, I’ve started ripping my DVDs (just my favorites) to my computer and purchasing more and more movies in pure digital form. I hate the thought of DRM invading my movie files, but the convenience is just too great. Sitting down with some friends on a late Saturday night, I can rent ,on demand, an HD version of almost any movie I want, through my AppleTV - many of these movies I can also purchase. The AppleTV is severely under-appreciated. I think there will be some big moves in store for the AppleTV in the near future.

So what’s holding us back from clearing our shelves of cumbersome DVD cases and praying to the encoding gods? Hard drive speed and capacity. An hour and a half movie takes up about 1.1GB. HD versions take up about three times that. We need faster and larger hard drives and we need them yesterday.

I can’t wait till the day my shelves are clear of DVD cases.

How do you get those fancy hearts, or other unicode characters, without going to the character palette?

Add the Unicode Hex Input via the International System Preference pane and then hold down shift-alt and type in your unicode character code. shift-alt-2665 is the solid black heart.