Category: iPod

  • WordPress app for iPhone/iPod Touch launched

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    WordPress launched it’s long anticipated WordPress app for the iPhone and iPod Touch this morning. See http://iPhone.wordpress.org for more. I downloaded to my iPod and am writing this post using it. The write screen seems quite bare. I don’t yet see how to add links, emphasis or photos to posts. I am sure the functionality…

  • iPhone and iPod Touch leading to huge increase in mobile web browsing

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    Two stories being reported today point to how Apple got it right with the iPhone/iPod Touch. In the first story, coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, EE Times is reporting that: A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best…

  • Screaming fast browser?

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    After reading Seth Weintraub’s post on how the upcoming versions of Safari are blisteringly fast I decided to download the latest nightly (WebKit r30123) and check it out for myself. To check the different browser versions I used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. The results were pretty amazing – on Vista the performance times came in…

  • Is the iPod Touch the ultimate Internet tablet?

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    I recorded a video on Seesmic yesterday on why I think the iPod Touch is a spectacular Internet Tablet. It has an amazing screen, great UI, and tiny form factor. Seesmic now includes the ability to embed videos you record there, so rather than go over it again I thought I’d embed the video here.…

  • iPod Touch – a gateway drug?

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    Pilar gave me an iPod Touch for my birthday the other day and, wow I love it! As you can see, it looks fantastic. The interface is unbelievably slick and surprisingly responsive. Using Nokia smart phones means I have become used to devices this size being slow but there is absolutely no lag on the…

  • Beatles tracks to be made available for sale online finally?

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    The Toronto Sun is reporting that the entire Beatles back catalogue may be released through iTunes in the coming months with the first songs being made available as soon as next month- wohoo! This follows on from a deal having been struck between the Beatle’s Apple company and Apple Computers over naming and sales of…

  • FairPlay cracked

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    According to an article on CNN Money, Jon Johansen, the hacker who cracked the DVD encryption, (aka DVD Jon) has now broken the ironically named FairPlay. FairPlay is the Digital Rights Management (DRM) software which Apple puts on songs sold through its iTunes store – this DRM stops songs bought through iTunes playing on devices…

  • Zune to illegally add DRM to podcasts?

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    Microsoft is to launch the Zune on November 14th according to its PR site. This date is just in time for the American holiday of Thanksgiving. What is not clear from the site is if this is an American launch date of a global launch date. I wrote, in not too glowing terms previously about…