October 15th 2008
I am a big fan of the 1Password utility for the Mac. It stores all of my passwords in encrypted form so I only have to enter them once. I just got word from Agile Web Solutions that the iPhone version is now available in the App Store and it will be free for a [...]
October 15th 2008
Early last week a Qantas Airlines Airbus A330 surprised (and injured) its passengers with an inexplicable 300ft climb, followed by an even larger drop. Initial reports seemed to place blame on…
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Tags: Airbus A330, Crash, Initial Reports, Ipod, Qantas Airlines
October 10th 2008
If you have a new 4th-gen nano and a decent ear, you may have noticed something funny: After putting it to sleep, if you wake it up by inserting headphones, the left and right channels switch. I…
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Tags: Bugs, Headphones, Ipod, Nano, Sleep, Switches
October 9th 2008
Onkyo is poised to pack yet another wireless gadget on the 2.4 GHz band with their new MHP-UW2 headphones. However, the uncompressed connection should result in some decent CD-quality audio. (But…
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Tags: Cd Quality, Gadget, Ipod, Mhp, Onkyo, Quality Audio, Wireless Headphones
October 9th 2008
Play.com, the online store, has just bitten a chunk out of Apple.
Their range of DRM-free music now includes artists from Sony BMG, Warner and Universal joining EMI and a host of independent labels.
At 65-pence-per-track, that’s 14p less than the iTunes variety and you don’t need an iPod to play them either.
Smugness abounds in the Play.com camp [...]
October 8th 2008
Woz, interviewed by London’s Telegraph newspaper, has a just shocking prediction for the iPod: like every other item of consumer technology ever developed and sold, it will one day be an obsolete reflection of the time that produced it!
“The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one,” he says. “Things like, that [...]
October 7th 2008
Woz, interviewed by London’s Telegraph newspaper, has a just shocking prediction for the iPod: like every other item of consumer technology ever developed and sold, it will one day be an obsolete reflection of the time that produced it!
“The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one,” he says. “Things like, that [...]
October 7th 2008
In an surprisingly frank and fresh exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph, Steve Wozniak has left us some new gems of wisdom regarding the past, present, and future of Apple. Among his thoughts…
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Tags: Apple, Daily Telegraph, Gems Of Wisdom, Ipod, Steve Wozniak
October 6th 2008
The Obama campaign is using the power of the iPhone to make sure that when it comes to November their candidate will be elected the next president of the United States. Toward that endeavor the Obama website is featuring an official Obama 08′ application for the iPhone or iPod Touch. The application can be downloaded [...]
October 4th 2008
Amazon’s follow-up to the Kindle rounds the corners and smooths the keyboard, dropping the “crushed origami hat” look of the original for something that looks (sort of) like it came out of Cupertino.
The spy shots were sent to Boy Genius Report, which says that the refinements, which include USB charging, come at a price: [...]
October 3rd 2008
Amazon’s follow-up to the Kindle rounds the corners and smooths the keyboard, dropping the “crushed origami hat” look of the original for something that looks (sort of) like it came out of Cupertino.
The spy shots were sent to Boy Genius Report, which says that the refinements, which include USB charging, come at a price: [...]
October 3rd 2008
Boy Genius just unveiled shots of what is very likely the Kindle 2. Notice the follow-up to the snowspeeder-like original Amazon e-book reader is more rounded, more early-iPod in its proportions, but…
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Tags: Amazon Book, Boy Genius, E Book Reader, Ipod, Proportions, Snowspeeder
October 3rd 2008
You’ve got to hand it to Microsoft: not only has the Zune gotten consistently better since its initial release (it’s now a totally viable competitor to the iPod), but their cross-promotional Zunes are wonderfully designed. Following the steps of the Joy Division Zune comes a special Gears of War 2 edition, which contains a laser-etched [...]
October 2nd 2008
You’ve got to hand it to Microsoft: not only has the Zune gotten consistently better since its initial release (it’s now a totally viable competitor to the iPod), but their cross-promotional Zunes are wonderfully designed. Following the steps of the Joy Division Zune comes a special Gears of War 2 edition, which contains a laser-etched [...]
September 30th 2008
If $100 is just too much for you to pay for a homemade iPhone stand, then this paperclip version might be a better option. And to anyone who has ever paid more than 50 cents to hold any pocket…
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Tags: 50 Cents, Iphone, Ipod, Paperclip
September 28th 2008
Quick question: How do you make one of the world’s most stolen gadgets, well, more enticing? If we’re talking about iPods, which we are, then you slap 24 and 18 karat white gold all over the newest…
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Tags: Gadgets, Ipod, Ipods, Nano, White Gold
September 26th 2008
For those of you who were skeptical of the Griffin AirCurve wire-free iPhone amplifier/dock thingy comes this USB dock that is a genuine neato solution. Dubbed “Simplifi,” for once it’s a product…
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Tags: Amplifier, Card Reader, Crappy, Griffin, Iphone, Ipod, Neato, Simplifi, Usb Device
September 25th 2008
If you purchased Metallica’s new album Death Magnetic, you may have noticed that it sounds like complete shit. But don’t blame Metallica, producer Rick Rubin or mastering engineer Ted…
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Tags: Engineer, Ipod, Metallica, New Album, Producer Rick Rubin, Ted
September 25th 2008
So you’re an iPhone user who embraced the MobileMe cloud, at least when it would let you embrace it. Now all your files and documents are floating around in the cloud and you’d like to be able to put your fingertips on them from your iPhone, right? Well now you can and for free. [...]
September 24th 2008
Apple’s recently revealed its iPhone Developer University Program: it’s aimed at higher educational institutions who wish to introduce an iPhone/iPod touch developer curriculum, and supplies the…
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Tags: Apple, Curriculum, Developer University, Higher Educational Institutions, Iphone, Ipod