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Consumer Electronics

How to beat the iPod

September 18, 2006

The Zen Vision W launched in the US today and I took a look at the specs on Creative’s website. Looks like a pretty cool product, but they’ve got some work in the marketing department. Maybe they figure this thing will market itself. Apple has probably the best marketing team in the consumer electronics and [...]

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Apple’s Showtime event

September 12, 2006

While Showtime lacked a few expected items, overall, this was a nice big present to current iPod owners and a cue that Apple has nothing to worry about from their competitors. iTunes 7 Includes two of the most requested features automatic cover downloads and gapless playback. New cover browse mode (no secret of why they [...]

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Links for Monday, September 11, 2006

September 11, 2006

What is pretexting?I’ve only kinda sorta followed the whole HP fiasco, but here is Valleywag’s explanation of what the hell pretexting is. New InfluencersDraft chapters of the new book Paul Gillin about blogging and the influence it has in the world. Paul wrote the book to “help marketers understand the changes that social media are [...]

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Fill your iPod, fill your head

September 8, 2006

Here’s a little weekend fun for you and your iPod. I’ve found that my iPod usage is a little unusual. First, my music collection is somewhere in the 130 gb range (most of it legal) and that while I do listen to music on my iPod, I listen to podcasts and watch video podcasts more [...]

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Links for Friday, September 8, 2006

September 8, 2006

Amazon Unbox beats Apple to the punchLaunched yesterday with Amazon front page hoopla. Now, all they need is a device that integrates well with the service. I’m planning a review of the service over the weekend. TextExpander ReviewProductivity guru and Mac nut, Merlin Mann’s review of this great productivity tool. Now, if I could just [...]

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Thursday Links

August 24, 2006

Apple’s having a bad week… Apple settles with Creative for $100mmI’ve got no real opinion on this other than, it sucks for Apple to lose a UI/Look and Feel case twice, once for each side. Oy. Of course, I’d take Apple’s market share minus $100 million in cash any day. Apple recalls 1.8 million laptop [...]

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Amazon Unbox Video launched?

August 18, 2006

Methinks someone pushed the wrong button at Amazon. Gizmodo Kokogiak.com Here are some pix, click for bigger images. More in my Flickr stream. It looks like the video will work on some portable players, will contain DRM, Mac users need not apply, and you will be able to rent as well as buy. Check it [...]

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Monday Links

July 31, 2006

Microsoft Photosynth demo Wow… I never say wow about Microsoft products (unless it’s wow, that’s lame or wow, have you heard of usability?). But this is a very cool 3d photo visualization tool. [via Addicted to Digital Media] Jeff’s Quick Guide to TV on the NetGet your fix here. Comprehensive guide to repurposed television shows [...]

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Monday links

July 24, 2006

Mergers, wikis and movies, oh my! AMD buys ATIAre any TLA companies starting with “A” safe from this insanity? SocialText goes open source and JotSpot goes 2.0Two wikis enter, one wiki leaves. Will the open source wonder take down its more usable, more expensive foe? Amazon to offer movie downloadsJobs better get their service out [...]

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Monday Links

July 17, 2006

Movielink to allow movies transferred to DVD Didn’t they already do that? Maybe it was the other guys. Build your own iPod HiFiTwo in wall speakers, $200. Two dead Mac Classics, $25. Retro iPod HiFi, priceless. Yahoo! to the 9′sDaily video feature of the top 9 videos from the web. No podcast, so you gotta [...]

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EyeTV meet FrontRow, FrontRow meet EyeTV

July 15, 2006

I’ve been a mostly happy user of EyeTV for about a year now (I’ve got the EyeTV 500 for recording digital TV signals), but I’d always hoped that they would go the 10 foot interface route. I use EyeTV in our kitchen and record programs mainly for my daughter and to stream signals to a [...]

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Thursday Links

July 13, 2006

CinemaNow gets more funding $20mm should help… I thought bandwidth was free? GUBA inks deal with Sony These guys are on a roll. Efax: How not to treat your customers I had a free account cancelled for overuse. Apparently, their customer service isn’t so great, either. [via Daring Fireball] Looking back at Hotwired Hotwired rejoins [...]

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Thursday Links

June 29, 2006

ReplayTV resurrected? looks like my old pal ReplayTV is back from the dead in the form of PC software. But for $100 and a $20 yearly guide fee, uh-uh. Replay, you were my first and my favorite, why did you have to piss off the TV industry so? See Dave Zatz for more commentary. Yahoo! [...]

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Tuesday Links

June 27, 2006

Toshiba wants unified DVD format god, as much as I want a single HD disc format, this smells like fear. Farecast launches public beta today I’ve been using this for a few weeks to book flights to various places. If you are in Seattle or Boston, or just a flight pricing nerd, check it out. [...]

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