Archive for August, 2006

Universal Music to Offer Free Downloads

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Free music downloads? Is this good news for music lovers!? What's the catch?
Universal Music, the world's largest music company, has shaken up the record industry by announcing that it will make its song catalogue available as free internet downloads. Unlike Napster and other competing online music retailers, could this service actually pose a [...]

Bosch iPod Power Box Review

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Like to listen to music while you work but find your workplace a little too dangerous and dirty for your fragile little iPod? Bosch, a company more famous for their power tools than stereo equipment just might have the perfect solution for you.
The Bosch Power Box is a feature-rich stereo system that not [...]

Apple Recalls Laptop Batteries

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Unfortunately Dell isn't the only company plagued by exploding defective Sony batteries. On Thursday afternoon Apple announced that they will recall 1.8 million lithium-ion notebook batteries after nine devices overheated. Two people have even reportedly suffered minor burns due to these battery malfunctions.
You can check out some of the fiery Apple laptops in [...]

Shower with Your iPod?

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

There's no doubt the iPod has revolutionized the way we to listen music. People take their iPods everywhere. On the run, in the car, or at the gym, our iPods have gone with us to the ends of the earth… except places near water.
Until recently, a short fall or a splash of water [...]

Free iTunes TV Show Page

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Want to beef up on content for your iPod Video but don't have a lot of money?
Lately the iTunes Store (US) has been full of free videos. A common trend has been for networks to offer a series pilot for free in hopes of getting you hooked on the show. Not a bad [...]

What if Microsoft Designed the iPod?

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Apple definitely has a successful formula when it comes to their elegant product design and marketing. Simple. Uncluttered. Clean… and very un-Microsoft. But what if Microsoft designed the iPod? What would the packaging look like? This video parody explores those possibilities.
What makes this video even more funny is that it was [...]

A Look Back at the 1st iPod

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Are you one of the digital music trailblazers who owns a 1G iPod? It's hard to believe, but Apple first unveiled the iPod back in October 2001.
Today, the iPod amounts to almost 50% of Apple's quarterly income - but back then few could have predicted that the iPod would become such a major game [...]

Watch the WWDC Keynote

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Did you miss Steve Jobs' Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote? Apple has posted the keynote as a streaming QuickTime movie on their site. A video is also available of "The PC Guy," who delivers his own greeting to the attendees of the conference.
Some keynote highlights include a preview of Mac OS X "Leopard" [...]

Stuck in Traffic, Sort Of……

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

It has been many moons since my last post here. I wish I could say I was doing something constructive or exciting in that time, but the truth is I have been doing just the opposite. Life basically just got in the way the last few months and I am just now starting to [...]

iPhone Rumors Confirmed?

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Is Apple working on a music player cell phone? Apple's CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, might have let the 'cat out of the bag' on an Apple analyst Q3 conference call. When analyst Richard Farmer mentioned the success of the Sony Walkman Phone, Oppenheimer responded by saying: "As regards cell phones, we don't think that the [...]