In a surprise move Warner Music Group have announced that they are going to be selling DRM free music tracks through a deal with Amazons Online Music store. AppleInsider have the following coverage of the announcment.
Over at All Things Digital Walt Mossberg has a review of Dells new all in one PC called the One. Surprisingly he gives this new Vista based PC a reasonable review comparing it directly to Apples iMac range. Ultimately the One doesn’t quite match up to Apples offering however, missing out in the areas of [...]
Since owning a Mac I have been meaning to have a look at Xcode, and this week finally got around to loading Xcode 3 onto my Leopard based iMac. It didn’t take long before I hit a problem though….
I just found out that a guy I was at school with is currently serving life in prison for murdering his flat mate ! Gary was apparently an alcoholic and killed his friend and fellow alcoholic during a drunken altercation in January 2005. This has really shocked me, Gary was a real nice bloke and [...]
Things is the latest in a long line of GTD apps for Mac for organising tasks and projects and getting your “things” out of your head and into a trusted system. This app is very definitely a Mac app, clean, slick and entirely appropriate for the task it is designed for, no more no less. [...]
Leopard introduced a change to the default Airport Menu which indicates whether networks are encrypted or not by showing a small padlock next to the network name. It now has an option that shows additional information for the currently connected wireless network. To access this press and hold the Option key ( alt ) while [...]
Now I am not sure if this is just me and I somehow missed the big announcement but who else knew that McDonalds restaurants in England now have FREE WiFi ?
QuartzFX.com is a new site which has a small number of add on effects for iChat and PhotoBooth in OS X Leopard. The Invisible effect is pretty nice. Worth a look
Roughly Drafted have an excellent blow by blow comparison of the new Zune 8 and the iPod Nano, including an in depth look at the Zune software in comparison with iTunes. Well worth a read.
It appears that VoIP apps just took a step closer to being a reality for iPod Touch owners. Over at iPod Touch Mods a bunch of hackers have been beavering away trying to produce a plugin dock microphone that will bring voice recording to the Touch and it appears from this article that they have got a working product now.