Y’know I like Apple hardware, right? Some of its stuff is downright magical. The close attention to detail. The minimalist design. The shiny. As a hardware company, I believe there’s nobody that can really touch them. But as a software company, I find many of the arbitrary restrictions Apple places on software developers and vendors [...]
I posted yesterday about some of the features I wished my iPod could do, and some of the things it can now as of the 2.0 software upgrade. There was a huge din of silence surrounding some vagueness about being able to watch video and listen to podcasts on your iPods. To clarify, of course [...]
After struggling for a couple of weeks to get a working ADSL connection installed (and eventually giving up and getting a cable connection), I see the following article on Ars Technica: Canadian ISPs furious about Bell Canada’s traffic throttling Not that Rogers is any better. This leaves exactly zero alternatives for a residential internet connection [...]
An interesting thing happened last Friday. It seems Microsoft is making a strong bid for Yahoo! While much is being made about how this new conglomeration of hugeness will present a worthy opponent to Google, what I’m more concerned about is how this will affect users of Yahoo’s services. Let’s paint a hypothetical picture, 5 [...]
From Ars Technica: Canadian Privacy Commissioner: Just say no to intrusive DRM. It’s rare, but once in awhile, you hear something come out of the canadian government that actually makes sense. It’s very nice to see that our privacy commissioner has some excellent people guiding her through the current morass of copyright crap that’s being [...]
I’ve been meaning to get this Nintendo DS homebrew HOWTO out the door in the last month but I keep getting distracted. Right now I’m too pissed to talk about it. Apple’s turned into a complete asshole in the span of about a month. Maybe two. Maybe it’s been brewing for a lot longer than [...]
From Kevin Rose on digg’s blog: Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0: If you read digg, you may have seen something like this last night around midnight: it turns out, those 48 little characters that everyone was appending to everything happen to be a key to unlock HD-DVDs, thereby giving people [...]
The past few nights, I’ve been trying to hook up my iPod to my Xbox to get some LCD Soundsystem out of my speakers while playing the new 3D Ultra Miniputt on the Xbox Live Arcade. This is usually a pretty trivial thing. The past few nights however, I’ve been plagued by the inability to [...]
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