An Apple insider posts to Slashdot about the future of iTunes and the iPod. In short: iTunes will start selling video content (they already are,) and iPods won’t be getting video support anytime soon, if ever.
Month: May 2005
This is old news in Internet time, but here’s a photo of the Xbox 360. It’s nice to see Microsoft learning from their mistakes. The original Xbox was the size of a suitcase. This looks more like the size of a textbook.
With only two pressings ever made – each 50 years old – ABC’s original soundtrack discs for Disneyland’s live opening day telecast are a rare find indeed. Fifteen hundred dollars, eh?
“Your local weather on the 8s” is something we’ve all gotten used to watching on The Weather Channel. But how, you may have wondered, does your local cable company manage to splice your local forcast into TWC’s national broadcasts? Whelp, TWC provides every subscribing cable company with something called “WeatherStar” and this dedicated piece of…
Nice long interview with Randy Thornton, producer of the infamous and now completely-sold-out-everywhere 6-CD mega set. “Well, I knew that either the company was going to mandate us to do something to be supportive of the 50th or we’d come up with something on our own. Usually there’s never any time to put these things…
This morning a US Court of Appeals killed the broadcast flag, something that would have effectively prevented you from recording certain television broadcasts and then using those recordings for your personal use in whatever manner you see fit. After a certain date, all home theater hardware sold in the US was to be ‘broadcast flag-enabled’…
Going to Disneyland on weeknights turns me into a zombie the next day. I’m so wiped out it’s not even funny. By the time we got to the park after work last night the crowds had died down a fair amount: We made it to the Blue Bayou for dinner. The standby line was only…
The power of Craigslist combined with Googlemaps has produced HousingMaps, a quick and easy way to find places to buy or rent.
Do you have what it takes to operate the controls of a nuclear reactor without blowing yourself to kingdom come? The BWR Reactor Simulator will allow you to hone your uranium-shufflin’ skills without being a danger to yourself or all those around you within a 500 mile radius.
Google Web Accelerator: not all it’s cracked up to be.