Category: Gadget-related Services
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RIAA Suing Individuals Over Ripping CDs for Personal Use
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Washington Post reported that The RIAA is arguing that ripping CDs for personal use on your iPod or other digital music player is illegal. The argument has reportedly been made in a case against Jeffrey Howell from Scottsdale, AZ. According to the article: The {RIAA’s} lawyer in the case, Ira…
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Gadget Links: Snow Fun Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesBills return to Buffalo by bus after loss in Cleveland, The Associated Press on ESPN.com: “Mother Nature sure had it in for the Buffalo Bills this weekend.” “Bad enough that a blizzard contributed to Buffalo’s loss at Cleveland on Sunday, ending the team’s playoff chances. Then, following an unscheduled overnight stay because…
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Unique Perspectives on the Amazon Kindle
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of friends of mine asked me to what I thought of the Amazon Kindle at lunch before Thanksgiving. I said that I was aware of it, that reviews and comments from blogs that I read had been more negative than positive, but I would keep my eye out for…
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GooSync Provides SyncML Glue Between Google Calendar and Many Mobile Devices
Reading Time: 2 minutesKathleen and I are both Treo 650 users, and we often need access to each other’s calendars so we can see whether we can plan another event for a day in the near future. As good as the Palm Calendar is, it has never been able to show another person’s appointments as…
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iTunes Purchases May Be As Much of an Influence on Network Programmers as Nielsen Data
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVerne Gay of Newsday.com wrote a column called How iTunes saved ‘The Office’ that I’ve been meaning to point out. Kathleen has fallen in love with The Office in the past few months, but if there’s truth to what Verne Gay is saying, the program wouldn’t have lasted on NBC’s schedule…
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Seattle Times Reviewer Thinks That The Sony PS3 is Too Expensive
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out that Brier Dudley of The Seattle Times didn’t like The Sony PlayStation 3 as much as he would have if it had been less expensive. Dudley wrote: Don’t get me wrong. The PS3 is an amazing machine. I’d love to have one sitting beneath my TV. But…
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Jason Fried of 37 Signals Finds that Performance of Comcast DVRs Has Improved
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, Jason Fried of the web application service provider 37 Signals reported that he had noticed an improvement in the responsiveness of the Comcast DVR thanks to the most recent software update pushed by Comcast. According to Fried: I have a Comcast DVR. It recorded on time, the menus and…
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Cable and Phone Companies Fight for Triple-Play Supremacy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe New York Times had an interesting article a few days ago on the degree to which the incumbent cable and telephone companies are battling each other for residential customers who are willing to subscribe to “triple-play” service plans. The article talks about the battle between Verizon and Cablevision in the…
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Cleaning Up My Inbox to Solve Mobile IMAP Performance Problems
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the past couple of months I’ve noticed that my Treo 650 has more and more trouble opening the IMAP Inbox for my main email account. The reason for this is obvious: I’m an email pack rat. At the height of my madness, I had over 25,000 messages in my main email…