As you may know, I currently use iTunes. And despite it’s quirks which include difficult to migrate library and the occasional instability it’s a very nice application overall and I’ve been reasonably happy with it for more than a year now (ever since I bought my ipod).
Well, there’s a great new music player called songbird. [...]
It’s only two days ago that I bought myself a Lacie Porsche 0.5 TB usb drive. Yesterday evening, after a reboot caused by an apple security update weird shit started to happen. Basically windows informed me that “you have 3 days to activate windows”. WTF! So I dutifully click the activate now only to watch [...]
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Apple iPhone costs $246-281 to make, analyst claims | Reg Hardware
Interesting that they can have such good margins.
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I installed itunes 7 with some mixed feelings yesterday: I was fully aware that it was not working as advertised for some people. Prior to installing I read about various issues people were having with disappearing files, crashes and sound quality. I had a good reason for upgrading anyway: version 6 never really worked well [...]
Also tagged reviewsOne of the innovative features in Mac OS X is support for DNS-SD, a.k.a. rendezvous. I was reading about the Java API for this by apple on onJava. Then I wondered if there was a pure Java implementation, because I dislike using native stuff in Java (complicates deployment).
That’s why I like google: “+rendezvous apple pure [...]
One of the nice things of buying a new pc is that you have an old pc to mess with. Having backed up the most important stuff, my old machine now is the victim of some random linux installer abuse. Right now I’m installing ubuntu, a debian derived linux distribution. It’s been a few years [...]
Also tagged google, linux, reviews, ubuntuWhoohoo! My new hardware has arrived, last week. I’ve been busy playing with it so that explains the small delay in posting.
Right now I am still going through the tedious procedure of getting everything the way I want it. I have a local network so I can access my old PC. However, dragging my external [...]
The coming paradigm shift in TV broadcasting
The coming paradigm shift in TV broadcasting
This article comments on Apple’s latest move to offer video content through their iTunes and how this is a logical and inevitable move with some far ranging effects.
In this blog post I abstract from this and apply it to the whole telecommunications, media [...]
As posted earlier, since a few days, I am the proud owner of a 60GB color iPod, which as of today is already obsolete. Nevertheless a few impressions.
My previous mp3 player was a shitty Philips 128 MB memory stick with even worse software (tip, don’t install it at all). The only nice thing about it [...]
