Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
MTV Games and Apple Corps have announced an exclusive Beatles game from Harmonix, the Rock Band folks. This is not, however, a Rock Band-based game.
The game will be a journey that will take you through the entire Beatles catalog, from the first album to the last. There will be an ...
Posted in Games, Music |
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Brent Simmons takes a walk down memory lane.
Posted in Design, Software |
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Have you ever seen the show Ghost Hunters on the Sci Fi channel? It's effectively a weekly argument against the existence of ghosts, but somehow the hosts keep pressing on, and viewers keep tuning in. Sci Fi is opening up the Ghost Network, a social network where fans of the ...
Posted in Sci-Fi, Social, Television, Web |
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Episode 4 of LoDo Conversations is available now. Despite some slight static in the audio (which I tried to isolate, but could not), I think this is my favorite episode so far.
Posted in Podcasts |
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
FriendFeed and Pepsi have teamed up to give you the Pepsi Cooler, a FriendFeed room to discuss Pepsi's new logo.
Love the typography, love the simplicity, hate the logo.
Posted in Design |
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The father of the cellular phone, Martin Cooper, doesn't care much for the iPhone:
In an interview with Forbes.com following his talk, Cooper said that he had used an iPhone for a few weeks before handing it off to his grandson, saying that he couldn't navigate its contacts and that its ...
Posted in Apple, Technology |
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Vying for the coveted "Stupidest Idea on the Internet" award, The Christian Science Monitor suggests that Bush run for Congress after his second term is up.
Posted in Politics |
Monday, October 27th, 2008
In the early days of the Apple TV, I followed the hacker community far enough to enable USB storage support and add the Perian Quicktime component. This was enough to watch downloaded TV shows, which is all I really wanted.
But several software revisions later, Boxee provided an easy way to play Hulu ...
Posted in Apple |
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Devin Reams of Crowd Favorite has posted his notes on going paperless at home and at the office. I remain unconvinced that recycling paper has any value, but agree that not dealing with paper in the first place is more convenient, and that's good enough for me.
Posted in Software, Technology |
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
TechRadar has a short interview with John Gruber about the iPhone.
What can Apple do to maintain the iPhone's momentum?
"Keep pushing ahead technically. Faster CPUs, more storage space, more RAM. Then write software that takes advantage of those hardware advances. Also, continue nurturing the third-party iPhone developer SDK and marketplace. The ...
Posted in Apple |
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The microphone I ordered for the podcast showed up broken, so I subsequently returned it to Amazon. Today, I got this in my inbox:
Hello from Amazon.com.
We're writing in regards to Order [REDACTED]. We hope you're pleased with the replacement order completed on 11-Sep-2008.
As it has been more than 30 days since we ...
Posted in Web |
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
From Gizmodo:
[The chip in the new Macbook Pro] can support up to 8GB of RAM. It can do on-the-fly GPU switching. And it can work together with the MacBook Pro's discrete 9600M GT.
This software to make this all happen is likely slated for Snow Leopard. Apple is smart to not ...
Posted in Apple |
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Sage advice from Wired: don't even bother trying to be good at anything, because you'll probably fail.
Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. ...
Posted in Social, Web |
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
The story looks pretty good; tons and tons of iPod, iPhone, and Mac sales. But because Steve Jobs didn't announce an $11 trillion profit, AAPL is down 6.95 today. Right now is a great time to buy.
Posted in Apple, Business |
Monday, October 20th, 2008
The long-awaited Brightkite iPhone app has hit the App Store. Congratulations to Martin, Brady, and the rest of the Brightkite team.
Posted in Social, Software, Web |