January 2008
49 posts
Amazon buys audiobook vendor Audible →
Filed under: iTS
The tie between spoken-books merchant Audible and iTunes has always been strong. Audible’s catalog forms the backbone of iTunes’ audio book offerings, and there’s a history of Audible offering iTunes-exclusive content. So it came as a surprise to me when Amazon bought Audible for $300 million, announced today. I’d imagine that the deal includes provisions...
iPhone Dog Costume →
Whoa!
Fraggles and Farscape come to iTunes! →
Filed under: iTS, Video, iTunes, Apple TV
OK, this is cool. Starting today, properties from the The Jim Henson Company are coming to iTunes. The complete first seasons of Farscape and Fraggle Rock are available now for $1.99 an episode. According to the company’s press release, the entire series should be available on the site in the coming months. Now, I never watched Farscape, but as a...
Kennedy Calls Obama ‘New Generation of Leadership’ →
Edward M. Kennedy placed the aura of his family’s name around the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.
Barack promises to keep you safe from iPod... →
Apparently there’s this thing called an election coming up in the US. I thought all the advertisements were just new personal injury lawyers, but I guess they’re called “candidates”. I learn something new every day. Anyway, on the Democrat side, one of the leading candidates is Barack Obama. I’ll tell you right now that he will soak up nearly all of the highly important Apple fanboi vote...
Kennedy Chooses Obama, Spurning Bill Clinton Plea →
Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama pits leading members of the nation’s most prominent Democratic families against one another.
Kennedy Chooses Obama, Spurning Bill Clinton Plea →
Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama pits leading members of the nation’s most prominent Democratic families against one another.
Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move →
Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website.
The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on that website.
Wei Zhu from Facebook explains the benefits:
Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a...
Gee, a $2.2 million house in Noe Valley? So what? →
Mark Pritchard: Yesterday Valleywag posted about a house in Noe Valley going to two Google employees for $2.2 million. The 2500 square foot, 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom house on the corner of Noe and Elizabeth (map) is very nice, sure. And the price is double what it would have been n number of years ago and ten times what it would have been in, say, 1980. But so what? Is anybody surprised that a...
Dems shocked -- shocked! -- to discover Bill... →
As you know, I’ve never liked the Clintstones. And as a committed lifelong super liberal I was stunned and saddened by the way the Democratic party establishment circled the wagons and people like Sidney Blumenthal, Lanny Davis, James Carville and Paul Begala (photo above) bent themselves into pretzels to defend Bill during the Lewinsky thing and swallowed his lies and looked the other way...
Nude Buttocks May Cost ABC $1.4 Million →
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue. The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower. The…
Wait—Are You Implying I Need to Read This Article?... →
Web Site Assembles U.S. Prewar Claims - New York... →
I love it!
Hillary / Tracy Flick Video | Public Knowledge →
Genius!
An online storage service worth a look →
Last week I came across an interesting backup and archival solution: JungleDisk. It uses Amazon’s S3 storage and makes it available as a local WebDAV disk. You can use it to make regular or incremental backups, or use it for longer-time archival, e.g., of your documents. And if you’re worried about your privacy: JungleDisk encrypts not only the transmission but also the files before uploading. The...
jwz: Classic backup advice →
jwz - PSA: backups This forum question about a comment I made on the most recent MacBreak Weekly reminds me that I mention jwz’s advice on backup often enough that it’s worth reposting the URL (as well as making sure credit goes where it’s due). On the one hand, his advice could hardly be simpler (that’s one reason I like it), but how many of us have taken the time to put a mature backup regime in...
AirMail, the manila folder sleeve for MacBook Air... →
When we saw Steve Jobs pull the MacBook Air out of that manila envelope, we knew it was just a matter of time before it would strike someone that they could actually sell a similar envelope to MacBook Air users. So it wasn’t all that surprising when we stumbled across AirMail, a handmade “manila folder notebook sleeve” designed for, you guessed it, the MacBook Air. The product is...
Bobby Fischer, Chess Master, Dies at 64 - New York... →
The Democratic Debate in Las Vegas: Competence... →
If you didn’t catch last night’s Democratic Presidential debate from Las Vegas, here’s what you missed: trustworthy competence. mcjoan and Trapper John did a stellar tag-team job of live-blogging the debate from the Cashman Center (starting here), and they captured the back and forth very well. To get a good synopsis of the questions and answers, you should read their reports. Midway...
Michigan's Ominous Message for Hillary Clinton -... →
The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote in 60 Seconds -... →
iTunes 7.6 lets you manually manage iPhone... →
iTunes 7.6 adds a great new feature for iPhone users. You can now manually manage media on the device. This means you can drag and drop music and videos onto the iPhone icon to copy them to the device, or delete music and videos directly from the device while it is connected.
In order to enable this option, click on your iPhone in the left-hand pane of iTune 7.6, then click “Summary.” Make...
FCC Seeks Comments on How ISPs Handle P2P Traffic →
s foreshadowed at the Consumer Electronics Show, federal regulators took the first formal step into investigating complaints about how Internet service providers, such as Comcast, manage peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic on their networks. The Federal Communications Commission posted requests for public comment about two such petitions, both of which deal with the question of what practices...
iPhone January update, coming soon to an iTunes... →
Filed under: Macworld, Internet Tools, Software Update, Apple
I don’t know about you all, but considering I’m not in the market for a pricey, tiny notebook, and I don’t need yet another thing hooked up to my TV, the best news I heard at the Keynote today was about this iPhone “January update” (does that mean there’ll be one every month?) coming soon to your...
MW08: Comedy Central casts its vote for Macworld... →
Prognosticating what Steve Jobs announces at an Apple event is practically a sport these days. We hear that in Vegas, bookies are already eyeing the spread and everybody from Mac pundits to mainstream journalists have been issuing their thoughts, predictions, and most heartfelt feelings. So it’s little surprise that the folks over at The A Daily Show have thrown their hats into the ring,...
MW08: Comedy Central casts its vote for Macworld... →
Prognosticating what Steve Jobs announces at an Apple event is practically a sport these days. We hear that in Vegas, bookies are already eyeing the spread and everybody from Mac pundits to mainstream journalists have been issuing their thoughts, predictions, and most heartfelt feelings. So it’s little surprise that the folks over at The A Daily Show have thrown their hats into the ring,...
Debate on Copy Protection →
Should creators insist on copy protection and other technologies to block the unauthorized spread of their works?
Snopes Comic →
Top Cyberlaw Developments of 2007 →
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After... →
I’m sorry but this lawsuit is retarded. We’re all infringers if this goes the wrong way.
Kerry Endorses Obama as Campaign Goes Nationwide →
Senator John Kerry said Senator Barack Obama “had the greatest potential to lead a transformation, not just a transition.”
Kerry Endorses Obama as Campaign Goes Nationwide →
Senator John Kerry said Senator Barack Obama “had the greatest potential to lead a transformation, not just a transition.”
Sony caves; DRM is dead, dead, dead →
Okay, maybe Sony’s not entirely idiotic. Earlier in the week, we gave them a piece of our mind about their ridiculous DRM-free music plan (short version: go to a store, buy a card, take it home, then download your music). Rightfully so: it’s a lame move in an era where the rest of the major labels had actually stuck their necks out. Well, turns out that was just the first shoe...
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the... →
Announcing OmniFocus 1.0 →
After many months of development and countless blog posts providing you with murky updates on our progress, what else is left to say … except SWEET FAT HOT HAM, OmniFocus 1.0 is here!
Yes, OmniFocus has finally shed its beta-ness and it’s all ready for prime time. Uh, we hope. I mean, ha ha, we’re pretty sure it won’t eat your hard drive or anything! We totally fixed THAT bug.
To those who...
Fun CES Video About Bill Gates's Retirement →
La Blogothèque mp3blog audioblog - →
Found in Wired. Watch videos of your favorite bands on the streets of Paris, among other things.
Obama Lights Up the 100 Club →
It’s important to remember that the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club Dinner is an annual fundraising event. It’s attended by people who have paid $100 or more to attend an NHDP fundraiser, and people who have been given tickets by campaigns and the like. In other words, dedicated Democratic activists, the vast majority of whom are committed to a candidate when they walk...
So maybe there is a God →
So maybe it’s not yet time to join hands and sing “Ding dong, the witch is dead,” but man oh man you can kind of feel that day coming, can’t you? As many of you know, I’ve had some nasty run-ins with the Clintstones and I don’t exactly hold them in high regard. Frankly, I can’t stand them. And I can’t tell you how glad I was to see this mean old...
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Hotdoll: The Sex Doll for Dogs →
A Guide to Embracing Life as a Single (Without the... →