Archive for the 'Technology' Category

HBO’s Flight of the Conchords:
First Episode’s Free, Second One’s $62.90

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

HBO put the first episode of Flight of the Conchords up on iTunes for free, so I downloaded and, hey, it’s actually pretty funny.
So, I checked back in a couple weeks thinking I could pony up $2 for the next episode. No such luck. It would seem even though HBO uses free podcasts [...]

Perian 1.0: A Must Have for Mac Users

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Far too often, Quicktime fails to play a particular video or audio file. Perian fixes this problem. It’s a free, open-source plugin that adds support to Quicktime for a pretty wide variety of video and audio formats and it just hit 1.0 (congrats guys).
Download Perian

Apple Won’t Allow 3rd-Party Apps on the iPhone Because AT&T Fears VoIP

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Apple made it disappointingly clear at WWDC that it will not allow for 3rd-party iPhone apps. Why?
My best guess: Because AT&T won’t let it happen. There is likely an agreement between Apple and AT&T that bans any Skype or VoIP type application.
Selling overpriced talk minutes is AT&T’s bread and butter. If Apple [...]

Youtube + AppleTV = Sweet Sweet Time Wasting

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Out of my eight tech predictions for 2007, number three just went gold:
iTV will be released with the greatest killer app: a full hookup to Youtube in partnership with Google.
You can see screenshots of AppleTV + Youtube action over at TUAW.
AppleTV just got it’s killer app. Lower the price to $199 and fix all [...]

Palm Introduces the Laptop Jr.

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Palm’s answer to the Treo not syncing well with your laptop is as follows: you need to buy a new laptop.
Meet the Laptop Jr. Called the Palm foleo, it’s just like a real laptop, only less. Sure, it’s cheaper ($499) and lighter (< 2.5 lbs.) than a real laptop, but the moment you [...]

Fantastic Spider Vehicle Video

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

He really should have oversized goggles when he drives that thing. This guy is my nerd hero of the day.

Introducing Simple Spark

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been blogging much lately, I finally can show you why. Jon and I have been working for many months and are happy to finally pull the curtain back on our project.
Introducing Simple Spark, a great place to find and share a new world of web apps or, [...]

BusinessWeek Calls Windows Vista “Slow and Dangerous”

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

I previously wrote about Time referring to Windows Vista as “an embarrassment to the good name of American innovation”, but now BusinessWeek has chimed in by calling Windows Vista “slow and dangerous”.

Vista vs. Mac OS X Pricing and Versions

Friday, March 9th, 2007

The marketers are running Microsoft these days and the proof is in the Vista Launch and it’s multiple and confusing versions.
When XP launched, it actually launched in only two versions, Home and Pro, that were fairly easy to discern. As time wore on, and as Microsoft failed to launch Vista anywhere near it’s projected [...]

Mario + Disney = Mushroom Kingdom Hearts for the Wii

Friday, March 9th, 2007

A copy of EGM hit my mailbox today and the following caught my eye. Is it an April Fool’s Day joke? You decide.

It looks like it’s being developed by Square Enix and is slated for 2008. For the full scoop, go buy yourself a copy of the April EGM and support their [...]