October 16th 2008
I lag behind my colleagues in the home-storage ‘n’ networking stakes. Joel has some stout NAS box that’s probably larger than my Shuttle PC, and John’s got a home theater PC, Airport expresses, the lot. He can probably flush the crapper with his iPhone.
Me, I have a 4-year old USB drive plugged into an old [...]
October 15th 2008
I lag behind my colleagues in the home-storage stakes. Joel has some stout NAS box that’s probably larger than my Shuttle PC, which John’s got a home theater PC, Airport expresses, the lot. He can probably flush the crapper with his iPhone.
Me, I have a 4-year old USB drive plugged into an old router. Network [...]
October 10th 2008
I’ve had high hopes for games on the iPhone, but for the most part the examples we’ve seen so far have been mostly pap, amusing but inessential bagatelles. And then there is Galcon.
Galcon isn’t an iPhone-exclusive game — a desktop version is available for all three major desktop OSes for $20 — but it translates [...]
October 10th 2008
The iTunes U service has been running for a while now and allows education institutes to easily make course content available through iTunes. Students can then download that content on to their digital media players or PCs.
In the UK the Open University and University College of London are already signed up, but now both Oxford [...]
October 9th 2008
One of our favorite apps for the iPhone is the iTunes remote, so we’re thrilled to see one for Android. Jeff Sharkey says that he reverse engineered the remote protocol from the iPhone and touch and…
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Tags: Android, Apps, Iphone, Itunes, Protocol, Sharkey
October 9th 2008
I’ve had high hopes for games on the iPhone, but for the most part the examples we’ve seen so far have been mostly pap, amusing but inessential bagatelles. And then there is Galcon.
Galcon isn’t an iPhone-exclusive game — a desktop version is available for all three major desktop OSes for $20 — but it translates [...]
October 8th 2008
If you are like me and prefer to write in landscape mode in the iPhone, go and download TouchType for just 99 cents at the iTunes App Store. This program will allow you to write your emails faster…
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Tags: 99 Cents, Iphone, Iphone Download, Itunes, Landscape Mode, Mail
October 7th 2008
In case you wanted to create your challenge to the world’s longest ringtone, CNET has an interesting little video tutorial up that’ll show you how to do so on the iPhone using iTunes. Turns out the…
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Tags: Cnet, Iphone, Itunes, Ringtone, Ringtones, Video Tutorial
October 4th 2008
I love this concept spotted by Yanko Designer for an external hard drive enclosure designed to hang off the lids of notebooks. I know it wouldn’t work nearly as well in real life, causing the laptop to either slam closed or catapult itself off the back of the table if a vibration knocked the screen [...]
October 4th 2008
In a bizarre little piece being sagely nodded over by delusional pro-Apple beardos around the web, Danny Gorog claims that Blu-Ray is never going to come to the Macs because Apple’s afraid to let Blu-Ray compete with its iTunes HD video streaming.
Fast forward to now, when the iTunes store is the largest retailer of music [...]
October 3rd 2008
Apple doesn’t have to worry about shutting down iTunes after all based on the ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board. The board met last week to set royalty rates for CDs and downloaded music for the next five years. Apple feared that increases in royalty rates would make the iTunes service no longer profitable for [...]
October 3rd 2008
I performed a Jailbreak on my original iPhone way back when and since that time it has become progressively more difficult to Jailbreak the latest iPhone builds. I’ve been reading about how much easier it is lately, though, so I charged up my iPhone 3G, synced it to iTunes so that I would have the [...]
October 3rd 2008
I love this concept spotted by Yanko Designer for a hanging external hard drive encloser for the lids of notebooks. I know it wouldn’t work nearly as well in real life, causing the laptop to either slam closed or catapult itself off the back of the table if a vibration knocked the screen akimbo out [...]
October 3rd 2008
In a bizarre little piece being sagely nodded over by delusional pro-Apple beardos around the web, Danny Gorog claims that Blu-Ray is never going to come to the Macs because Apple’s afraid to let Blu-Ray compete with its iTunes HD video streaming.
Fast forward to now, when the iTunes store is the largest retailer of music [...]
October 3rd 2008
Looks like its Update Day at Apple—the company just released Apple TV 2.2, which users can access through the “update software” menu option in Settings. The software revamp now includes support for…
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Tags: Apple 2, Apple Tv, Itunes, Menu Option, Software Menu, Tv 2, Update Software
October 2nd 2008
In case you haven’t opened up your iTunes in the last few hours, Apple’s released v.8.0.1 to fix several 8.0.0 issues with HDTV episodes, the Genius auto-playlist feature and software update checks….
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Tags: Apple, Checks, Genius, Hdtv, Itunes, Software Update
October 2nd 2008
One of my biggest gripes with the iTunes App Store is the lack of free trials. There seems to be little in the way of Apple logistics to offer this choice to developers. That’s one reason I’ve added less than a handful of paid applications to my iPhone. I simply don’t want to risk my [...]
October 2nd 2008
I test a lot of Windows Mobile phones and a good way to sync them with my Mac would be welcome. There are some commercial applications that will do this but a free solution would be pretty cool. Enter SyncMate from Eltima that will sync a long list of data types between the Mac and [...]
October 2nd 2008
Today the US Copyright Royalty Board is going to decide if they agree to increase music royalty payments as requested by the National Music Publishers Association, and for some reason the British are…
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Tags: Apple, Hadron Collider, Itunes, Large Hadron, Music Publishers Association, Music Royalty Payments, National Music Publishers
October 2nd 2008
Apple could shut down iTunes if the Copyright Royalty Board vote today to increase payments to artists from online music sales.
The group of three copyright judges meet today to set royalty rates for downloadable and streaming music for the next five years. They are considering a proposal from the National Music Publishers Association, which wants to [...]