Showing posts with label ipod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipod. Show all posts
Friday, October 15, 2010

iPod interface wrong for instructional video

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I’ve been listening to a few instructional videos (lectures) on my iPhone lately. That’s how I came to realize that the iPod/iPhone/iTunes i...
Sunday, July 04, 2010

Apple's iBookstore and a FairPlay DRM review

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I'd delayed updating to iTunes 9.2, but the upgrade seems to have gone well. I can now browse my "Protected book " (FairPl...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

My Nano qualified for a $25 class action settlement

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I think I got $50 back from a flaky battery in my original iPod in the form of an Apple Store coupon [1], now I'm getting (maybe, some d...
Thursday, January 08, 2009

Apple's product cycles - handy for purchase planning

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Phil Schiller described Apple's product cycles for David Pogue ... Gmail - Circuits: A Strange Macworld Expo .. the holiday season (Nove...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

New Macs won't let some video play on projectors

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Old televisions, projectors, LCD panels -- they're not "HDCP" compliant. So they won't always work as expected with new Ma...
Monday, September 08, 2008

iTunes 8: what really matters is the household library – and its DRM

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iTunes 8 is coming out sometime soon, maybe tomorrow. When it does, there will be the usual array of obvious improvements, and probably a ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Standards for chargers: Thank you China

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An innocent question about organizing chargers produces and surprisingly good Slashdot discussion of power adapter standards. Did you know C...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

iPhone remote multiple libraries - what it means

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The iPhone Remote app supports connections to multiple libraries. Macworld | iPhone Central | Remote lets you control iTunes from iPhone, iP...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Software-as-service and DRM mean you don't own. You rent. Everything. Another lesson from Yahoo.

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This would be the third time I recall that a major vendor has shut down a DRM service and stripped customers of all their products. AppleI...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

My iPod has run out of room, so the iPhone is more appealing

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Since I don't have much video on my iPod, I though 30 GB would be plenty of room. Our family music library used about 14GB, and a few vi...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

The iPhone software advantage: strong Digital Rights Management

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This is sad. But it must be said. I am no friend of Digital Rights Management . I don't buy FairPlay'd music -- because I can...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Gordon's 4 laws of acquisition

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Contemplation of Apple's time capsule has reminded me of Gordon's 4 rules of acquisition. Well, actually, none of them are mine rea...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Music industry sows the wind

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In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: "You realize, of course, this means war" (emphases mine): Download Uproar: Record Industry Go...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Daring Fireball demonstrates why journalists are going to get smarter

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I don't remember a golden age of journalism, but rumor has it that once upon a time journalists did not merely parrot press releases and...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

In Our Time: Opium Wars and the 2008 Olympics, Spinoza's radical determinism and the new feed page

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Melvyn Bragg's BBC show, In Our Time , has begun a new season. I'm a fan . The bad news is that the BBC is sticking with its execra...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

From Napster to Amazon: A Yahoo! insider's DRM history and projections

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This gentleman has been around -- from WinAmp's Napster-associated glory days to an exec position at Yahoo! Music. He says Yahoo! is don...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Amazon MP3 Store: great news for Apple customers

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Amazon's MP3 store is a smash hit among OS X gurus like Gruber: Daring Fireball: The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader ...The s...
Saturday, September 08, 2007

Shared music, shared ringtones, iPhone - uh-oh

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Despite all chatter about iTunes and DRMd iPhone ringtones nobody seems to have caught on that Apple is going to make it very, very, hard t...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

NBC plugs the family loophole in Digital Rights Management

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Daring Fireball points out where NBC is going with its DRM: Daring Fireball This just shows how moronic these NBC clowns are. You don’t have...
Monday, July 02, 2007

Gordon's Tech is not gone -- but feeds may require a manual update

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The short version : I moved Gordon's Tech to a new address: tech.kateva.org . Subscriptions (like bloglines, google reader) were suppos...