Mandi asks… Any good tips for a noob to this fancy-schmancy world of phones intersecting with other technologies? Just got an iPhone since ATT only has NICE phones these days! What are the first things I should look into with this contraption? Once upon a time, a phone just needed to be able to call [...]
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What to do with an iPhone?
Posted in Analysis, tagged Apple, Digital Life, games, iphone, life, sync on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have a Hunch
Posted in Commentary, tagged Digital Life, hunch on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake, and a team of MIT computer scientists comes Hunch. It’s a fascinating project and you can read more about it here. My hunch… this is going to be big. The information they’ll be able to aggregate and analyze for patterns is huge. The API will open the door for [...]
App Store Hits 15,000 Apps, 500 Million Downloads – Mac Rumors
Posted in Commentary, tagged Apple, apps, Digital Life, games, iphone, itouch on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
App Store Hits 15,000 Apps, 500 Million Downloads – Mac Rumors. Further reason to believe the App Store & iPhone/iTouch combo is a gamechanger and is going to be BIG. Stay tuned for Apple’s fiscal results for the CY4Q within the next hour.
News-flash: Online media outlets pass print. TV up next.
Posted in Analysis, tagged Digital Life, nbc, news, podcast on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following my post about digital formats threatening Blu-ray, the Pew Research Center has a report out indicating that the internet continues to make serious gains as a source for news compared to traditional outlets like television and newspapers. The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all [...]
How-to: Copy music from an iPod to your computer
Posted in How To, tagged Apple, Digital Life, ipod, itunes, mac, pc, senuti, yamipod on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s question comes from a friend of mine who asks one of the most common questions iPod users face… “How can I copy music off an iPod without syncing it to iTunes?” A well known limitation of the iPod is that it is designed to sync with only one iTunes Library at a time. The [...]
It’s Over (or just beginning): iTunes is DRM-Free
Posted in Analysis, tagged amazon, Apple, Digital Life, drm, free, itunes, music on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a bit of a battle over the last few years but DRM-free music is finally here. Let’s recap: ~2006 and prior – Music industry can’t fathom the possability of DRM-Free music… it will be the end of the Industry. Feb 2007 – Steve Jobs writes ‘Thoughts on Music‘. The third alternative is to [...]
Blu-ray’s Next Battle: Digital
Posted in Commentary, tagged blu-ray, digital, Digital Life, dvd, hd, hd dvd on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times had a good read out yesterday on the upcoming challenges for Blu-ray. The argument comes down to, while Blu-ray may have ousted HD-DVD as the optical format of choice, consumers increasingly have far more to choose from than traditional optical media. Blu-ray’s backers, including Sony and the Walt Disney Company, face [...]
New Years hangover for Zune users
Posted in Commentary, tagged Digital Life, microsoft, zune on January 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’d suggest that if you’re trying to get past the perception that you still can’t compete with the iPod, or that you still have serious issues in your software development process, that the last thing you need is to have every single 30GB Zune you’ve sold simultaneously die on New Years due to a bug [...]
Nintendo dominating gaming sales but here comes Apple
Posted in Analysis, tagged Apple, Digital Life, ds, games, gaming, iphone, ipod, nintendo, psp, sales, touch on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s cut to the chase… the iPhone has been huge. Plenty of smart people predicted it would be a flop either because they simply missed the mark, or perhaps more cynically, because they just didn’t want to believe it. Well, in only 18 months it’s become clear that Apple is having a field day with [...]
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Wolfram|Alpha
Posted in Commentary, tagged data, Digital Life, wolfram on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wolfram|Alpha launched last night and I have to say it is truly freaky the types of data you can query via it. Billed as a ‘computational knowledge engine’, it can quickly let you calculate, compare, and visualize all sorts of fascinating things like: Birth rates in the USA and UK Chemical properties of various acids [...]
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