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Finding the best parking space for your iPod
April 19, 2009 1 Comment

Sometimes you need a bit more power than those shiny white earbuds that come with your iPod can offer. That’s where an entire audio sub-industry has sprung up, catering entirely to iPod owners who want to “dock” their music box somewhere and jam to a room-filling sound that’s not mashed into their ears. Blast and [...]
Crippled cell phones just piss us off
March 4, 2009 Leave a Comment

Wireless carriers consistently rank low in customer satisfaction rankings. One only need troll the pages of sites like Consumerist to understand why. Expensive, spotty service couples with poor customer service makes for quite a set of disgruntled customers. One of my big beefs with carriers (or even phone makers-I’m looking at you Apple) are carriers [...]
iTunes sucks. There I said it.
March 2, 2009 39 Comments

There are two pieces of software out there that are more greedy and bloated than Apple’s music-playing, music-downloading title: AOL Instant Messenger and Microsoft Internet Explorer. I hate iTunes. I’m sick and tired of Apple getting a pass on quality control just because they gave us the Holy Roman iPod Empire and, by a roll [...]
Hands-on: Safari 4 Beta
Feb. 24, 2009 Leave a Comment

Safari has never been very formidable in the browser wars, always holding just a few percentage points of the browser share on the bottom of the list. Of course, now that it’s no longer a Mac-only browser, it’s share has grown as a few (admittedly brave) folks downloaded it for their PCs. Even still, the [...]
BookEndz-es
Feb. 2, 2009 2 Comments

Docking stations are nice if you use the laptop primarily at one location or have lots of things to plug into it that don’t move — input devices, webcam, monitor. This leaves the BookEndz with a good chance to market third party docking stations. This is a hard thing for the company to manufacture since [...]
Macworld 2009: Big changes for iTunes
Jan. 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
With its customary flair for sexing up the art of gizmo glorification, Macworld 2009 didn’t disappoint with some big reveals today. Topping all the charts was Apple’s latest update to its iLife suite, touting major retrofits of iMovie, iPhoto and GarageBand. The changes range from a better system for organizing photos in iPhoto to more [...]
THQ launches Star Wars Sound Board for iPhone
Dec. 8, 2008 Leave a Comment
THQ Wireless has released Star Wars Sound Board, a Lucasfilm-licensed application that allows users to replay sound bites from the Star Wars series, they announced recently. Quotes from characters such as Darth Vader, Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and C-3PO are included, as well as sound effects including the Lightsaber, R2-D2′s beeps, Chewbacca’s growls, and TIE Fighters [...]
Wanna go diving with your iPod? Of course you do.
Oct. 21, 2008 1 Comment
The new iDive waterproof iPod case and speakers claim to give users the ability to listen to their podcasts, videos, music and movies up to 300 feet underwater. “Three years ago we introduced the world’s first waterproof housing and speakers developed for scuba diving, the DV-i700. Even though the number of supported mp3 players was [...]
iTunes upstages Wal-Mart as top music retailer
April 4, 2008 Leave a Comment
Apple proudly boasted on Thursday that their highly successful iTunes Store has passed Wal-Mart as the top music retailer in the US. iTunes has sold over four billion songs to over 50 million customers since opening in 2003. “We launched iTunes less than five years ago, and it has now become the number one music [...]
Safari 3.1 launched
March 18, 2008 Leave a Comment
Apple announced Tuesday that Safari 3.1 has been released for Mac and Windows systems. “Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2,” Apple said in a statement. “Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support [...]




