Monday Links
Why Apple should buy YouTubeThis will never happen, but it’s fun to talk about. Apple has a long history of not doing big acquisitions (NeXT excepted). Fact is, Apple (a) could build a crappy version...
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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...
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Eric Schmidt joins Apple’s Board roundup
(image from Valleywag) Oh boy. I do love the interweb some days. Being a long time Apple nerd, I’ve been through a number of rumors of x acquiring Apple, Apple acquiring x, what does x mean? Frankly...
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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...
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Is Steve Jobs Bill Gates 2.0? Om works out that Steve has the new monopoly so he can afford to pre-annonuce products to scare the competition shitless. Interesting observation… Facebook to allow open...
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Apple’s Showtime event
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...
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How to beat the iPod
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...
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So, to be fair to Creative, things aren’t exactly rosy in the land of the iPod either. After numerous reports of a buggy iTunes 7(which I’ve had no difficulty), my 5G iPod isn’t doing so hot. My iPod...
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Links for Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Berkeley and Google Video team upNot content to get your lectures via podcast? Now you can watch your prof’s give lectures on Google (as well as talks, symposiums and more). I wonder what this does to...
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Cool Tools – Monolingual
Every so often I find something that saves my butt in some way. I’ve recently moved to using a Macbook as my primary machine. I immediately upgraded the hard drive inside, but my drive was filling up...
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Jobs’ saucy Newsweek interview
Apparently, sex sells iPods, at least according to Steve Jobs quotes in this week’s Newsweek. In celebration of the iPod’s fifth anniversary, Steven Levy sat down with Steve Jobs to talk about the...
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Nerd-tastic!
A bit of digression- Here are pix from a couple of events that I’ve gone to recently. Woz First, a couple of Friday’s ago, Steve Wozniak was interviewed on the UW campus by Robert Scoble (I say...
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Scoble on the Zune
After watching Scoble’s Zune video yesterday, I wasn’t sure how I felt about the Zune, but I did know one thing for sure, the Zune pm lacked something… I know. It was enthusiasm. Man… I know Scoble...
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Twas the Night Before Macworld
Twas the night before Macworld when all through the town No MacBook was mooing nor turning brown At Moscone, nerds were queuing with care in hopes that Saint Steve would soon be there. The new...
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Macworld 2007
Just a few quick general impressions from the show today. iPhone and AppleTV First, iPhone and AppleTV are two huge new platforms for Apple to develop and deserved the spotlight today. That said, not...
View ArticleSteve Jobs thinks DRM is pointless
Wow… here’s something I thought I’d never see. Steve Jobs posted on the official Apple blog, errr, Apple’s press release area a letter entitled “Thoughts on Music.” Basically, Steve boils it down to 3...
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iPhoto ’08 – screenshots and commentary
So, I’m an Apple fanboy who rushed out on the first day to get iLife & iWork ’08. Here are a few pix and comments of the new features (you can get a lot more here). I don’t have .Mac anymore, but...
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iPod Touch’s conspicuously absent button(s)
One of things that Apple is generally known for is their elegant design and ease of use. From a design standpoint, symmetry is a key element of any product. You just don’t see a lot of asymmetrical...
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Sync Yahoo! Addresses in iPod Touch
Here’s a pleasant little surprise in the iPod Touch setup. I’ve always wanted to sync my Yahoo! Address Book with Apple Address Book but most of the solutions didn’t work very well. While I was...
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iPhone issues in San Francisco?
So, I’ve had my iPhone for about a month now and by and large, it works well enough here in Seattle. The thing that I was most concerned about switching from my trusty but aged Treo 755p (my year old...
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