It’s not an easy time for Microsoft — with Steve Ballmer having to field questions about being “buffoons” and an “evil empire” at the shareholder’s meeting (.doc) — so when they get together “the world’s most influential technology pundits and online writers” (nb: we weren’t invited) for Mobius to discuss super-secret mobile tech you’d think [...]
Here’s a guide for finding the best bargains on Apple-related gear during the infamous Black Friday sales on November 27. We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of gear from leaked photos of sales flyers and descriptions of sales.
The bargains include a 2.26 GHz MacBook + $150 gift card at Best Buy for $999.99 ; a 32GB [...]
New on the App Store is Voices from the clever folk at Tap Tap Tap. You can guess what it does.
Open it up, pick a silly voice. Helium is pretty silly. A microphone appears and the app even clears your throat for you (try it, you’ll see what I mean). Now speak your brains, and [...]
Press releases, you will hardly be surprised to hear, are rarely very interesting. But one arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago that made me double-take.
“Sony’s S Series Walkman,” it chattered, “is a serious challenger to the iPod Nano.” Gosh, really? Perhaps the Cult had better have a look at one, then, despite [...]
8:03 pm, November 20th, 2005,
This is a new player for Windows called Songbird. Recognize the layout?
It seems that they copied iTunes — and there are even links to music stores like Amazon in the player. A wild guess is that it works, and is intended for players other than the iPod.
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Ninja Assassin the movie is an anticipated Hollywood swords and sandals epic from James McTeigue, director of V for Vendetta, with a story from J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5 and the only Spider-Man comic in which Dr. Doom cries (though the artist allegedly came up with that last bit).
It’s also now an [...]
This is what you’re about to ask: Is Star Wars: Trench Run so good that it’ll have you wondering how magically your iPhone becomes an X-wing fighter? Answer: No. It’s better — it’s actually so good, you’ll be trying to figure out why your X-wing looks suspiciously like an iPhone.
Hit the game’s icon and you’re [...]
New on the App Store is Voices from the clever folk at Tap Tap Tap. You can guess what it does.
Open it up, pick a silly voice. Helium is pretty silly. A microphone appears and the app even clears your throat for you (try it, you’ll see what I mean). Now speak your brains, and [...]
Press releases, you will hardly be surprised to hear, are rarely very interesting. But one arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago that made me double-take.
“Sony’s S Series Walkman,” it chattered, “is a serious challenger to the iPod Nano.” Gosh, really? Perhaps the Cult had better have a look at one, then, despite [...]
If you jailbreak your iPhone, the first thing you ABSOLUTELY MUST DO is change the default filesystem password.
When you jailbreak, the filesystem’s password is set to the common password “alpine.” As people usually don’t bother changing this password after performing a jailbreak, it’s really easy for hackers to get access to any jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch [...]
Convert your mild-mannered Mac Pro into a hard drive speed demon. Stuff it with drives fast enough to work with full-quality, uncompressed video. Get more than 300 MB/s on your internal drives! It’s so easy even I can do it!
I’ve been working in video production for the last 20+ years. When you’re working with video [...]
Some readers might remember the fuss a few weeks ago, when Snow Leopard came out and people noticed that it did something screwy to the way files behave.
By removing support for Creator Codes in 10.6, Apple also removed the system’s hitherto built-in ability to distinguish which application created a file, and re-open it in that [...]
George Hotz a.k.a GeoHot has released blackra1n RC3, which is an update to a 1-click jailbreak that adds activation options and an add-on blacksn0w, which unlocks latest iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS baseband version 05.11.07. To use blacksn0w, make sure you have this new baseband (check under Settings –> General –> About –> Modem Firmware) [...]
it seemes that you forgot how to spelle.
virgil pfutzenrueter, on November 19th, 2005 at 6:36 am
“but OURS goes to eleven…”
sinisterdesign, on November 21st, 2005 at 5:01 am
Linkspammers are now the spelling police. How cute.
On topic, the iTunes interface is widely imitated. Look at Linotype’s FontExplorer X: they don’t hide the fact that they are trying to be “iTunes for fonts.”
Nate, on November 21st, 2005 at 7:44 am
I like how they explain how long it took to ‘design’. You mean to ‘design like itunes’? What a rip.
NoBos, on November 21st, 2005 at 8:08 am
oh man, now i’m a “link spammer!” actually, i just typed the first thing that popped into my head in the url box, because a lot of these sites *require* stupid stuff like that.
in reality, i was genuinely curious as to why the spelling was so bad. leander has always seemed very conscientious about stuff like that, so why the abrupt change? it was like his blog got hijacked or something.
the entry was invisible for awhile, and now here it is back again, with the spelling corrected. very strange.
virgil pfutzenrueter, on November 21st, 2005 at 8:17 am
My english sucks and all my articles shall go through leander before they are published, this one was a mistake
Roger Ã…berg, on November 21st, 2005 at 11:24 am
Apple has patents on the iTunes UI.. how long until they’re gobbled up by the cupertino clockwork?
Zack Smith, on November 28th, 2005 at 5:15 pm
How is this a “windows” app?
It is Gecko based, (well XULRunner based) just like Firefox. Is intended to work under Linux, Windows and OSX.
And I imagine if some idiotic thing like a UI layout is patented, they can simply change the UI. It is only XML, after all.
I think it is pretty cool if it delivers, will allow connecting multiple media sources more easily than iTunes, and in a cross-platform fashion.
nemo, on December 27th, 2005 at 10:08 am
I just got my 2000t and all of my songs are skipping in iTunes, and I cant figure out why. If someone could help me out and tell me how to fix this I would really appreciate it because its driving me crazy. Thanks for the replys.
Reese, on November 28th, 2006 at 10:11 am