Upgraded the photo gallery to the latest version of Gallery, G2 beta 4, code named Flippin’ Sweet. Seems to be a tad faster, although I ran the maintenance tasks which rebuilt all the photo thumbnails boosting the loading speed. That took about 3 hours though… yikes.
I’m slowing adding more photos but lack of [...]
Most shareware/freeware is crapware and no one seems to give a damn. Couldn’t have said it better myself. I do pay for a lot of shareware but only the really good shit. Support the good ones.
Some analysts believe so. Personally, I enjoy listening to a very small subset of podcasts because they contain information I want to hear. A lot of the other very niche podcasts don’t appeal to me because I don’t really care about someone’s movie reviews or whether or not they like so and so [...]
As registered user of NetNewsWire, I’d like to respond to comments made by the developers related to Apple’s new iTunes podcasting features. There are two things that iTunes offers up that are so good and useful, I’m currently using iTunes as my podcasting downloader of choice.
iTunes stores podcasts away from your regular music files [...]
Microsoft released their “lame excuse for a music store”:http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BD5657B75-0B35-461F-9526-AEFAC1924F61%7D yesterday, dubbed the “MSN Music Store”:http://music.msn.com/.
bq. “ITunes has done a great job of helping to elevate the [digital music] market,” said Christine Andrews, lead product manager of MSN. “We’re different because Apple is a closed system. If you want Apple, you have to use the iPod. [...]
Nokia is trying it’s hand again at the world of handheld gaming with the N-Gage 2. “Leaked photos show”:http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/first_ngage_2_pictures_014911.php that the newest N-Gage still won’t support a built-in camera making the device completely worthless for me. If Nokia really wanted to sell me one of these things they’d at least include the top [...]
Out of all the vendors and monthly services I pay, AT&T and Sony are the first to finally cough up some free swag. In a few weeks I’ll be receiving two free “Sony Ericsson T226 phones”:http://www.sonyericsson.com/T226 from Sony to replace my current line of T68i phones.
I was a little miffed to learn about this [...]
In what seems to me like another attempt at the French trying something new for the sake of world attention, a “French group is going to sue Apple Computer”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=1292&e=1&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_hi_te/france_apple over their sales of iPods in France.
bq. The argument centers on a fee levied in France on sales of blank CDs, tapes, hard disks and other [...]
Napster CEO “Chris Gorog is crying”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1164179,00.html over the fact that Apple uses the AAC encoding format for it’s music downloads from the iTunes Music Store instead of the “bully” format of WMA, Windows Media Audio.
bq. Gorog believes pressure from iPod owners will force Apple to reconsider its stance: “The iPod is great if you’re happy [...]
Although the Clint Eastwood “movie of the same name”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/ did in fact rule when I was 8 years old, I’m talking about the new version of the web browser formally named Phoenix and Firebird.
“Firefox”:http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ is the new name of the Mozilla based web browser that is a lean, mean, browsing machine. Are you still [...]