June 5, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 5, 2007

Camino 1.5: Brisk, Better, Best

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 »

Listio Tracks the Social Web

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 »

Subscribe to Interesting Things, an irregular column of interesting things and get it delivered in you InBox Or you can sign-up for the RSS feed for this column Ask.com relaunches in 3D, and its pretty nifty and pleasant. Search Engine Land says when … Read More »

HTC now has a full web site up devoted to the innovative Touch phone.  It is chock full of video and information about the Touch and has a nice online demo of the Touch features.  Here’s the tasty wasabi green version of the Touch: UPDATE:  … Read More »

Being accessible is one of the most important challenges that webworkers face. It’s critical that colleagues and clients can be in touch whenever they need you — it helps reinforce the idea that you’re working and not “working,” and it is a boon to actually getting … Read More »

For the past five years I’ve made my living playing poker. It’s been a lot of fun, and even more profitable than I had hoped for when I first took the leap. I’ve travelled around the country and met all sorts of interesting people. I’ve even … Read More »

Creators are under-informed about their rights to reuse material, and the nascent field of participatory video needs to develop best practices, was the conclusion of a recent report from American University’s Center for Social Media. The key here is that this new font and style … Read More »

HTC is making some of the coolest mobile devices around, from the Advantage, a Windows Mobile device to the Shift UMPC.  Today they are announcing the launch of the … Read More »

Goodbye Ed Whitacre, Hello Randall Stephenson, the new CEO of AT&T and his new executive team. Long the crown prince of AT&T, Stephenson took over the top job yesterday. We decided to ask him a few questions, about AT&T, the future and what it … Read More »

You’re only allowed five words when you accept a Webby award, and the best five-word speech yesterday evening came from Eepybird‘s Fritz Globe, who, after the audience had watched Diet Coke and Mentos fountains explode on the screen at the New World Stages in Manhattan … Read More »

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