January 2010
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Listen“Box of Rain” by The Grateful Dead I...
Jan 31st
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Jan 28th
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“There are many issues you could have with the iPad. No multitasking, still no...”
– - Stephen Fry on the IPad It’s obvious that I was going to be excited about this product, like any good Apple soldier. But the reactions from people who have held it are making me even more eager.
Jan 28th
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
Listen“Boy From School” by Grizzly Bear ...
Jan 26th
Google Reader now lets you track changes on sites that don’t have RSS feeds These custom feeds are most useful if you want to be alerted whenever a specific page has been updated. For example, if you wanted to follow Google.org’s latest products, just type “http://www.google.org/products.html” into Reader’s “Add a subscription” field. Click...
Jan 25th
In Apple Tablet, App Makers See a Wider Playing Field A few clues about what kinds of applications Apple employees are trying out on the tablet come from Flurry, a mobile analytics company that offers developers a free tool which gathers data about the use of their applications. With the data, Flurry can generate reports about the location of an application’s users, for example, or how long it...
Jan 25th
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Alan Carton, the 23-year-old, RIAA-Defying Creator of the @diditleak twitter account, died earlier this month In 2007, halfway through his first semester, Carton started Did It Leak—which began life as a blog—with the goal of total anonymity. For a year, he didn’t even tell his mother about the site. When he finally confessed, Jennifer asked how he knew that albums were...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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I missed this little morsel in yesterday’s Kindle SDK announcement: Developers will get to suggest their own prices for their programs, but they will have to shoulder the cost of wireless delivery at a rate of 15 cents a megabyte. - New York Times This thing is DOA.
Jan 22nd
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Jan 14th
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Listen“Oh It’s Such A Shame” by Jay Reatard Jay...
Jan 14th
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Jan 11th
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I keep playing the title track from Laura Veirs’ new album, July Flame. It feels like summer and winter at the same time.
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Despite some of the annoying fixie guys in the first episode, Pedaling’s mix of bikes and food is the perfect thing to watch when it’s 20° outside.
Jan 5th
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The Tablet, Unfettered Data and Verizon
While there has been a lot of speculation about the feature set for The Tablet, I am not that caught up in it. Honestly, whatever the feature set is, I’m sure it’s going to be awesome. There will be a quibble or two, but I’m certain it will be the “reconception of personal computing” that Gruber prophesizes. However, I think it’s all for nought if it...
Jan 5th