I just wanted to get the word out about a new contest I saw recently. As I myself may be entering the contest I don’t believe that I will infact release any more details about my ideas, but I would like to draw attention to the contest in hopes that other people may be intersted in entering.

AWS has just launched the AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and software developers that will award the winner $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, an investment offer from Amazon.com, and more. What are you waiting for? Submit your idea now.

Please read all the fine print before entering, as there is a great deal of it. The few quick notes which I saw, please read them yourself in case I didn’t understand them correctly is that is isn’t open to people making over 10 million per year or people using the free web services, such as ECS. I’m looking forward to playing around with the Elastic computing cloud and seeing how many parallels systems I can power up (depending on my budget). O the joys of a contest.

Good Luck Everyone, and enjoy.

The new Mac, The Mac Home!!

The MacHome, home for home theater, homework, and home gaming is the newest mac in the mac lineup. This computer takes the classic Macintosh LC case and crams a ton more features and speed into the small, but manageable, form factor. With the best of both worlds, bringing together the iMac, Mac Pro and Mac Mini 1 small package. For the home theater buff there are full HDTV HDMI ports, for bringing in high definition video to edit, and then send it back out to a HDTV to watch. For the home gamer, 16x PCI express slot, allows the addition of a high quality graphic card, no longer stuck with the onboard video like the mac mini or iMac. The capablities to support dual monitors, or the amazing 30″ Apple Display are both supported with select video cards. For students needing to complete their homework, they now have a choice of running the standard Mac OS 10.5 or running bootcamp and booting into Windows XP or Vista. For the power user, Parallels Virtualization technology would even allow XP or Vista without rebooting while running the native OSX operating system.

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