Come on over and talk gadgets at the new Thoughts From The Sidelines forum!
It’s run by the Thoughts from the Sidelines blog. Now you might think a gadget blog is a gadget blog, and you’ve got your Gizmodo or your Engadget, but this site has a more intimate feel that those behemoths are missing, [...]
I’m playing along with Ed Bott’s Uncensored Jukebox. (Link goes to the rules so you can play along!) The current edition is here.
1. We Shout - Tatu2. I Want Someone To Love - Sailor Moon soundtrack3. Hands - Jewel4. I Can’t Stand It - Danielle Paris5. Wild One - Faith Hill6. YMCA - Village [...]
Too funny! This eye chart iPod Shuffle case is $15 at the most colorful store I’ve ever seen, Pylones USA.
Just so we are all clear, cell phones are not banned from flights for safety. They’re banned for crowd control.
The airlines fear “crowd control” problems if cell phones are allowed in flights. They believe cell phone calls might promote rude behavior and conflict between passengers, which flight attendants would have to deal with. The [...]
If you’ve bought a single song, or a few songs, off an album from iTunes, now you can get the entire album at full cost minus the price you paid for the individual songs. Right now there’s a grace period in which you can do this with all your songs, but in the future, [...]
In iTunes, go to the music store and scroll down a bit. You’ll see a Just For You (beta) box with recommendations based on your library. Awesome!
I sent this to Consumerist, but since they haven’t published it, I’ll post it here.
I have a Sony Ericsson phone (z520a) with Cingular as my carrier, and I just found an interesting setting in my phone. Go to Messages -> Settings -> Multimedia Msg. and there’s an option that says Accept Messages. Clicking [...]
From Gizmodo:
Apple just called Giz Editor Noah Robischon to apologize about a few video iPods—less than 1%— that shipped with the Windows virus RavMonE.exe. The virus snuck onto iPods made after September 12th, via a Windows assembly line machine. The bug won’t cause any damage to macs and iPods, but it will reduce the security [...]
At least 42% of the time, Windows Genuine Advantage produces a false positive, indicating that a legal installation of Windows is pirated.
Warner has applied for a patent on a disc that can hold HD DVD, Blu-ray and standard DVD content via different data layers.
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I love colorful gadgets as much (or maybe more [...]
Microsoft’s Zune will place DRM on any song you share with someone else, regardless of whether that song has DRM in the first place.
Amazon’s Unbox video download service has some of the worst terms of service ever, including a clause that lets them report on what software you have installed on your computer.
German company Akuma [...]
