Showing posts with label itunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label itunes. Show all posts
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Tech regressions: MORE, Quicken, PalmOS, iOS, Podcasts, Aperture, Music, iPad photo slide shows, and toasters.

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One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

iOS 6.01 Podcast app: Die, Apple, Die.

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I had to update to iOS 6 sooner or later, and I knew that meant the Podcast app. Still, a small part of me hoped that that it wasn't as...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Why I'll be deferring iOS 6 and iPhone 5: podcasts gone

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I listen to several Podcasts; using smartlists to identiy partly played casts and those I haven't started. That won't be possible c...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Post-singularity life is burning a lot of neurons

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In 3 days I've tackled three monster Apple bugs . One is with Apple ID infrastructure, one with Image Capture in Snow Leopard, and a...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Side-effect of the iOS in-app purchase model - the reviews are worthless

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I haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere, so I'll get it on the record here. Prior to the introduction of in-app purchases there was...
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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Apple's FairPlay DRM, subscriptions, and the cost of MLB At Bat

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Last year I bought MLB.com's At Bat for something like $10 or $15. Then it was an "App". That meant, based on Apple's Fair...
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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Lessons in history: iTunes U and the quiet revolution in university education

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Amidst all the noise and turbulence of humanity, what will become historic? Some things are obvious. If there are history books in 100 year...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Managing the Google-Apple war: keeping options open, expecting the Android bicycle computer

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The Google-Apple war continues , with a new front opening last week. The notorious Larry Ellison, close ally of the infamous Steve Jobs, ha...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Google TV, Flash, iPhone and Curated Computing - it's all about the DRM

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Imagine that Drexler's engines of creation were real. Imagine we all had devices that could make diamonds, phones, cars and the like o...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

iTunes U - the Singularity is behind us

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Despite my IOT habit , I've only today rediscovered iTunes U in iTunes 9... This still brings tears to my eyes. As I (incorrectly - B...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

When DRM is a force for good - the Apple App Store software renaissance

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Once upon a time we had a pretty good collection of educational software for children. It wasn't quite as good as what we could find in ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Jon Udell's 21st century radio: SpokenWord.org

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Jon Udell, one of my favorite deep thinkers, is championing community collaborated audio sources, a kind of 21st century radio service ... I...
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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 ...
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, June 11, 2008

The end of Moore’s Law and the future of Dell

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I can’t remember when the main feature of a major update was that it was significantly faster on current hardware: Apple Gives Develop...
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...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Audio books for children: the list that's hard to find

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Audio books are more effective than sleeping gas for quieting our kids in the car. Since I figured out how to use iTunes and Missing Sync fo...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The iTunes Store fails to impress

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My 11 yo son has $30 in birthday credit at the iTunes Store -- and nothing to spend it on. This ain't a good sign. In the past we'd...