Posts Tagged ‘ipod

Best Buy Gift Cards Double As Speakers

No where near as cool as Targets Digital Camera gift card, Best Buy’s holiday cards will double as really crappy speakers for you iPod, or Walkman.
Engadget

Quick Bits, Technology

Project Silence Podcast 34: The EttaCast

In a universe where Jay and Jason are unable to bring you the Project Silence Podcast, what would your iPod (or Zune) sound like? You’ll just have to listen to find out. Also discussion of the new season of Heroes, reviews of The Force Unleashed and Rock Band 2 and a whole lot more.

 
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Todays Links

Do people still care about nature? With the rising popularity of television and video games, outdoor activities like camping and fishing are seeing a rapid decline. Sad.
Where does your candidate stand on the Real ID Act? The Real ID is a form of identification with RFID implanted to track everything you do and everywhere you [...]

Games, News, Politics, Technology

Mossberg: Free My Phone

I’ve said it before, but now that Mossberg says it, people actually seem to care more:
This whole cellphone subsidy game is an archaic remnant of the days when mobile phones were costly novelties. Today, subsidies are a trap for consumers. If subsidies were removed, along with the restrictions that flow from them, the market would [...]

Technology

New Harry Potter DVD to Include Digital Versions

PC and portable device compatible versions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix are to be included directly on the disc. Warner Bros. hasn’t said which portable devices (surely it will be iPod compatible) or what PC’s (probably no Mac or Linux support) will be supported, but kudos to them for being a [...]

Movies, Technology

Happy Birthday!

I know you really wanted an iPod for your Birthday, so I got you one. Oh, wait, it’s an iPod box, with rocks inside! Thanks Target!

Quick Bits

What a Day…

What a day I had yesterday, first my DVD player broke, then Apple announced a shit ton of new iPods and dropped the price on the iPhone $200, on the very day mine was set to arrive. I immediately called Apple and the friendly support guy I talked to refunded me the difference. Thank god. [...]

Sounds of Silence, Technology

Activate iPhone, Without the Phone, Why?

The infamous DVD John (the hacker we all love for originally breaking the encryption on DVD’s) has discovered a way to activate the iPhone without having to have phone service from AT&T:
The headline kind of says it all: a little hex editing of iTunes, a little hostfile hacking, a little program called Phone Activation Server [...]

Technology

Xbox 360 Spring Update Looks Great and Could Be Great for Home Theater

Microsoft has released details of the spring update for the Xbox 360, to be released May 7th. Updates include integration with Windows Live Messenger to chat back and forth from 360 to PC (using the super cool keyboard attachment), a dedicated Marketplace Blade (not sure if we really need more blades) and better codec support [...]

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Yet Another iPod Video Converter

I posted recently about how much I love to use iSquint, but it’s a Mac only product. I can’t say how good or bad Free iPod Video Converter is (great generic name), but I thought I’d give a quick link for you stuck on Windows users who would like to convert their video to an [...]

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