June 5, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 5, 2007

Tuesday might as well go down as upgrade your favorite Mac app day: we have had new versions of some of the more popular Macintosh applications – Net News Wire, Mars Edit, and more importantly, Camino, the best Mac browser of them all.… Read More »

iTunes Plus files unplayable by TiVo

TiVo owners who have connected their Series2 boxes to their home network have been able to play their iTunes library on their TV ever since TiVo released the Home Media Option in 2003. But it was limited to MP3 files until a hack was discovered… Read More »

 
 

I don’t know what their names are but these three baby birds are quite the trio. It took me nearly a half-hour to find the source of the incessant singing, which… Read More »

Quote of the day 06/06/07

Learn from the bad experiences, replicate the successes, and always, always be gracious. *Founders’ Lesson #12* : Enough said. Read More »

British startup VideoJug drew our attention with its recent $30 million funding round. Since then we’ve been talking with the company about its U.S. launch, which just happened this week. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind; since mid-January, the company opened a U.S, office,… Read More »

Now this is interesting; just got word that the Melodeo folks have launched a new beta service called nuTsie. The concept is simple: stream your… Read More »

If you’re a fellow feed-addict and you’re running Mac OS X, we don’t have to tell you what’s right about NetNewsWire. It was already considered “best in class” long before developer Brent Simmons joined forces with NewsGator. The Mac feed reader just got better… Read More »

Boss Box From Alienware

The Hangar18 from Dell’s boutique brand Alienware is like a muscle car of home media servers: up to four tuners (two digital, two analog), two terabytes of storage, 1080p resolution over HDMI, 200 watt surround sound amplifier, a DVD drive (eventually Blu-Ray) and WiFi. Of course,… Read More »

The rise of the social web, with everything being kitted out with comments, presence, tagging, voting, avatars, and similar features, continues to show no sign of slowing. We try to pick out some of the most useful and interesting applications in this arena to mention here,… Read More »

Miro Almost Here: The Participatory Culture Foundation just released the last beta of the Democracy Player. (BoingBoing) Hart Promoted at MTV Digital: New senior vice president and general manager Dan Hart takes over Ben White’s old job at MTV Digital. (paidContent) How-To Use Federally Mandated… Read More »

I’m not a big photo-totin’ guy, but if I was, I might be interested in one of these iWay iPod SD Adapters. $70 rids you of using a… Read More »

More YouTubers Get Gigs

William Sledd, the fourth-most subscribed YouTube member, is the latest web video star to score a job for his efforts, taking his Ask a Gay Man series to Bravo’s gay-themed web portal. He joins singer Ysabella Brave (see update below) and comedian Sherry Sirof… Read More »

More Must Reads

What is  a mobile guy to do but try to get as mobile as humanly possible?  That´s what I am doing right now sitting in a very nice coffee shop.  I´m using… Read More »

Now they don’t call it Crackberry for nothing! Apparently pop-singer Nelly Furtado is ready to give up everything – her passport, her bag, her watch – except one thing, her Blackberry. Apparently she was ‘punked’ on MTV and the way the joke went was that her… Read More »

Ah, the rhythm of life: we ruminate on Apple rumors, the Apple store comes down, the Apple store becomes available, new Apple products appear. One… Read More »

Since I enjoyed my recent mobile blogging experience at the Borders in Montgomeryville, PA, I decided to give it another go this morning. No free Apple Pie samples yet but… Read More »

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