Monthly Archives: October 2005

Apple sells 1 Million Videos

“Selling 1 million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests that there is a market for legal video downloads,” Jobs said. “Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings so that customers can enjoy watching more videos on … Continue reading

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Invasion of the Ladybugs

So I have no idea what’s going on today, but we’ve been officially invaded by Ladybugs.  There are tons of them all over… The morning was frosty, but it got up near 70 during the day and literally hundreds (perhaps … Continue reading

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MCE vs. TiVo??

Thomas Hawk pointed me to an interesting piece written by Alex Raiano at the TiVo Blog comparing MCE to TiVo. First, thanks for blogging on TiVo (Alex specifically), but what the hell are you thinking with this?  MCE certainly has … Continue reading

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Mobile Bloglines Enhancements

Do you often find yourself reading Bloglines on your mobile phone with too many feeds and too little time? Well, we’ve got great news. No, we’re not selling you gecko lizard insurance. But we have made it easy for you … Continue reading

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Katonah Sunset

Right from my backyard dinner time tonight…

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Digg gets financed

Congrats to Kevin Rose and team!  I really like the Diggnation pod / vid cast and enjoy using the site as well.  I’d describe it as Slashdot 2.0 (ala Web 2.0), and you’ll find a good mix of stories – … Continue reading

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Nano returns!

My Nano returned today from Apple which is most excellent as I was seriously missing my commuting partner.  Apple replaced my previous model with a brand new replacement — certainly the right move in my book.  I was actually suprised … Continue reading

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College Life, Powered by Google

You spend your life dealing with information. A lot of it is academic, a lot more is personal, it all matters, and you can probably use better tools for handling it effectively. On this page, we’d like to introduce you … Continue reading

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Proprietary web applications kill openess and standards development

At work, I use Flock like I do at home and before Flock I was using Firefox since I have a basic disdain for IE.  This is fine for my basic needs, but frequently – and I mean frequently I … Continue reading

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Viagra iPod Spam

I just caught this as I was purging some spam and have to admit it caught my attention as I am sure was the intention.  It’s a total rip on the iPod ad treatment, minus the white headphones… best spam … Continue reading

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Simultaneously Releasing Movies

The idea of a movie being available on DVD or VOD the same day it’s released in a theater is very attractive to me.  There have been plenty of times in the past few years when I was not able … Continue reading

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On Aperture

I mostly run it on my 15-inch PowerBook. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy the refreshing wind-blowing-through-my-hair feeling when I sit down in front of a G5 running Aperture. But a PowerBook is fine for what a lot … Continue reading

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Can Adult Content drive adoption of yet another consumer technology?

Matt Goyer reports on a adult VOD service available for MCE users …  It worked for VHS and DVD. Technorati Tags: Porn, Marketing, technology, DVD, VHS

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Riya – Facial Recognition

Riya looks like it will be a killer, killer application for digital image management.  What is it?  A facial recognition system for your pictures that lets you tag things (people, place etc) and it seems to learn based on what … Continue reading

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Akismet

Installed! Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again. Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet … Continue reading

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Flickr Prints!

Finally!!! Flickr has implemented printing on an official basis — if you are in the US. For now, you can order prints and have them fulfilled through Target. You can either pick them up the store or have them delivered … Continue reading

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WashingtonPost video Podcast!

Very cool – the Washington Post goes video. This video podcast includes news and documentary video from washingtonpost.com.In the first video Washington Post personal technology columnist Rob Pegorarodiscusses his initial impressions of the latest iPod which can play video and … Continue reading

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Treo Mass Storage Synchronizer aka Treo ROKR

If the Treo is your preferred device for all occassions this certainly seems like a great add. PocketTunes is a killer app for the device and iTunes integration is just solid. The newly released version 1.3 of Mass Storage Synchronizer, … Continue reading

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Is it really the picture?

While Thomas thinks it’s all about the picture, that unfortunately is just a detail.  There are plenty of other details that need attention as well… music library management is certainly a key piece — but I think it’s really much … Continue reading

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MCE — I’m with Stupid

I just caught this hilarious post on BYOPVR courtesy of Channel9.  This piece chronicles the adventure of a seemingly highly techncal geek setting up their own MCE box from scratch. The main way MCE gets sold is through packaged boxes … Continue reading

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