From the monthly archives:

September 2006

Hi-Def TV

September 27, 2006

Over at InfoWeek, my friend Cory has written a great feature on why High-Definition Video is Bad For Consumers and Bad For Hollywood . It’s a tale of silly monopolists, complacent and compliant governments, and dodgy technology. Well worth a read.

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The USBCELL – brilliant idea of the day

September 20, 2006

Sometimes, an idea is just so simple and yet so cool that you just end up shouting "that’s BRILLIANT" across the room. The USBCELL is exactly such an idea. The principle is simple: a standard battery of the kind that are used in just about everything, but with a flip-off top that exposes a USB [...]

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Print your own stamps

September 20, 2006

So Web 1.0, but so much more useful than most of Web 2.0 – you can now print your own stamps in the UK. Hurrah!

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There’s something the water in Austin: Second Life to overtake WoW?

September 14, 2006

Over at GigaOM Wagner James Au gives a report on a talk by Raph Koster on the Long Tail and gaming – including the astounding claim that Second Life (currently 400,000 subscribers) will overtake World of Warcraft (currently 7 million subscribers) by 2008. I can only imagine that someone has been putting something in the [...]

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Copying in design

September 14, 2006

Over at Robert Scoble’s place, there’s a fairly standard and heated flame war between Robert, who claims that Apple has copied the Windows Media Center for its forthcoming iTV, and various Mac aficionados who point to Microsoft as copying Apple for lots of and lots of stuff. It has, of course, descended into the usual [...]

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Firmware update for older iPods?

September 12, 2006

I can’t find any reference to this anywhere else, but I’m guessing that Apple might be releasing a firmware update for older iPods that allows them to download and play games. If you click on the “Games” tab when an older iPod is connected to iTunes 7, it says “A software update is required for [...]

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Two thousand and WHAT?

September 12, 2006

From Ina Fried’s coverage of the latest Apple announcements: For now, the movie downloads will only be available in the U.S., but “we hope to take this international in 2008,” Jobs said. Well there you have it. It will take two years – TWO years – to bring this to Europe. I hope that this [...]

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Living on the edge

September 10, 2006

Currently updating to Edgy-Eft. Wish me luck!

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MacLibre – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

September 7, 2006

Link: MacLibre – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW). MacLibre allows users to browse a library of Open Source software which they can then chose to download and install. Although the current selection of software options offered by MacLibre is fairly small compared to the overall Open Source offering for the Mac, I think its safe [...]

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A quick note on RSS feeds

September 2, 2006

If you’re not subscribing to my RSS feed over there, you should: not only do you get the full text of all the posts here, you also get links that I post via del.icio.us, and my Flickr feed too. So for special bonus content, subscribe.

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