There seems to be a lot of talk these days about a whole slew of new iPod Minis, and new iPod Shuffles, with expanded capacities. I am sure many millions will be sold, and thousands of words will be devoted to reviews, and analysis of these… Read More »
Archive for September 2, 2005
Given the high interest in podcasting, why doesn’t it surprise me that makers of AudioBlog, one of the podcasting playas’ is getting investment dollars from venture capital arm of Trans Cosmos of Japan. Earlier this summer Pod Show raised about $8.5 million from… Read More »
Anybody remember the game from the mid-80s called Sundog? It was released on the Apple II and later on the Atari ST and was one of the most enjoyable games I’ve ever played on any platform. It had two distinct modes, an overhead view when… Read More »
GMail Status app came out before the GMail Notifier which adds header-preview. Still, an acknowledgement from Google that us Mac users exist! Read More »
According to Engadget, Apple plan to introduce a new line of iPod minis in the coming month. They will be 75-80% smaller than the existing models, and offer a colour screen. There may also be an 8gb model introduced, likely to be priced at $299.… Read More »
There are no better testimonials for any program than those from long time users who are passionate about the application. jkOTR reader Scott Frickman sent me an email about the interesting program RecallPlus. Scott is an avid fan of the program and, oh,… Read More »
update 09/05/2005: If you wish to enter information about Katrina Survivors, please click here to enter it on the earthlink katrina survivor search site. The comments section on this blog entry isn’t the most effective place to do so. orignal information: Taking a second for an… Read More »
Chris Holland writes, “A few engineers here at EarthLink have gathered into a task force to quickly deploy a website, enabling disaster survivors to inform the world of their whereabouts and for their friends and relatives to find them in our database. We’re also actively seeking… Read More »
Thin client has a new best friend – the Writely! This is to Microsoft Word what Yahoo Oddpost was to Outlook. An online collaborative wordprocessing tool, that is amazingly brisk, clean and has the crispness that will make ya’ll love it. Here is the link! Read More »
On Tuesday Creative Technology made a claim that they have a patent on technology that Apple’s iPod uses. They’ve yet to say if they will be filling suit but technology lawyers believe it to be almost certain that they will. Creative said the patent covers… Read More »
Apple’s stepping up for hurricane relief in the wake of Katrina by including a link on the iTunes Music Store that accepts donations for the American Red Cross. All donations through the iTMS donation page are billed to whatever credit card you normally buy music… Read More »
One of the failings of iTunes is the inability to copy music files from the iPod to your iTunes library without third party utilities. I suspect Apple did this by design to keep we iTunes customers from copying our DRMed music. I recently rebuilt my… Read More »
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