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This is the “speculating about the future” episode. What will the tech future bring?
Topics:
- Will Twitter or microblogging take the place of blogging?
- New Segment – Tip of the week: Instapaper
- Will podcast listenership become a requirement for job applicants?
- New Segment – Pick of the Week: Instapaper
- When will Apple release the App Store for Macs software?
- Vote on whether Apple should release an App Store for Mac: http://twtpoll.com/r/h09p23
- Rant: iPhone voice recognition… where art thou? Read more »
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There is no doubt that the killer app for the iPhone and iPod Touch is the iTunes App Store. Downloads have surpassed 100 million apps back in September, only a few months after the launch of the store. The success of the App Store has been a benefit for everyone involved, a symbiotic relationship of sorts that’s so desirable in business: developers make money selling applications while Apple takes a cut of sales revenue; developers focus on making awesome apps and let Apple take care of billing, distribution, and bandwidth. This much we know.
But the real beauty behind the app store is its simplicity and convenience: find an app you like, hit the install button, and the next moment the app is ready to use; it’s really that simple! Looking ahead, the time is right for the success of the app store to be translated to desktop computing: I believe that Apple will release a version of the App store for the Mac in the next year. Read more »
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After a long and drawn-out battle by many a tech enthusiast and digital rights management opponent, the utopia that is DRM-free music has finally arrived. Proponents of a DRM-free music world finally sighed a breath of relief when Apple announced early in January that the entire iTunes music catalog will be void of the restricting and inconvenient technology. But what about DRM-free video? It looks like that’s an entirely different bowl of spaghetti: consumers aren’t interested in downloading video as much as they are in consuming it via streaming. Here’s the lowdown. Read more »
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Does this ever happen to you: you find an interesting article on the web but have no time to read it at this moment in time? What do you do? Do you just leave the window open, hoping that your browser doesn’t crash and if it does, it will remember the tabs you left open? Do you the web page to that overflowing bookmarks folder called “stuff to read”? Or do you just take the environmentally-unfriendly route and send the article to print? All of those solutions work, but they can be equated to using a stick with dry leaves to start a fire: antiquated and inefficient, to say the least. With today’s technology having come as far as it has, there must be a better solution. Meet Instapaper. Read more »
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Update: all fixed; update your feeds. Sorry for the hassle.
It turns out that FeedBurner is horrible at burning podcast feeds for shows whos descriptions are a bit longer than ten lines.
I’ll be working for the next hour or so to get this fixed and transfer the feed from FeedBurner to a self-hosted feed.
Keep in mind that this does not effect our other feeds (for the blog entries or for the comments). They have changed a few days ago and can be found on the feeds page.
I’ll update this post when everything is back up and running.
Thanks for your patience,
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This is the “get real” episode. Controlled ranting abound.
Topics:
- Alex gets through an iPhone rant
- Netbooks netbooks and more netbooks
- Steve Jobs medical leave of absence
References: Read more »
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Ask any Mac user why he uses (and swears by) his Mac and you will most likely get many responses. One of such replies might be the fact that applications on the Mac all have a uniform “look and feel”, making the user feel right at home with any application, new or old. But there is an evil spirit flying in from the south, one that can put an end to this beautiful uniformity. This spirit goes by the name of Adobe AIR. Read on to find out what it brings. Read more »
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On a grand time line, podcasting today is still in its infancy. Looking down the road, however, can listening to podcasts become a requirement to landing a job? Read on to find out. Read more »
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NuevaSync logo courtesy of NuevaSync
As some of you may know from my previous posts, I have been an outspoken complainer about the lack of wireless over-the-air (OTA) calendar synchronization options for the iPhone. Simply put, unless you have access to a Microsoft Exchange server (medium to large corporations do) or pay for MobileMe (with which you can’t share calendars with friends and family), there is no easy, intuitive, or otherwise streamlined method to synchronize a web-based calendar such as Google Calendar with the iPhone. Luckily for us iPhone users, this has finally changed thanks to one company: NuevaSync. Hit the Read More link to find, well, more!
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Use iPhoto? Make an edit on a picture and no longer like it? Did you know that you can bring the original picture back with just one click? Read on to find out how! Read more »
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