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April 23, 2006
iPod Radio Found on Bus?
This sign was found late last night (April 22) on the 3rd floor of the Manhattan Port Authority bus station.
Found on bus: iPod Radio. Please see supervisor at gate 305 & 306
An “iPod Radio”? I didn’t know iPods had radios. Either an Apple employee lost a new iPod prototype or the Port Authority staff haven’t joined the iPod revolution yet. That’s alright, my friends mom still thinks I work for a company called “The Internet.”
The person who found this iPod may not know what exactly an MP3 player is, but you have to respect their good intentions. If I ever lose my iPod, I hope someone is as nice as this.
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New Apple HQ
Looks like there will be a break in the Infinite Loop!
Steve Jobs revealed this week that Apple is building a new, 50-acre corporate campus. They plan to tear down 9 different adjacent properties about 1-mile away from their current campus and build their second home.
Why does Apple need a new corporate campus? They are growing. The first iPod was released in 2001. Six years later the success of the iPod and the iTunes Music Store means Apple’s business has tripled. As result of this expansion, Apple has been renting every spare piece of real estate in Cupertino and their employees are scattered across 30 different buildings.
It was time for Apple to build a new home.
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April 22, 2006
Tetran Eats iPod Earbuds
Tetran is a terrifying little monster cleverly disguised as a earbud cable winder. When you’re not looking, Tetran eats your earbuds, then you can simply wind the undigested cable around his spiked, spherical body and it creates a neat little package.
Tetran comes in the menacing colors of pink, green, yellow, and orange and sells for a pricey $13.
[Syndicated post via iPoditude.com]
methodshop | Comments (0) | General, Music, Peripherals
April 19, 2006
Ogled with Google
Maxim Magazine celebrated their 100th issue in a BIG BIG way. They decided to print a massive 75-by-110-foot billboard of their January 2006 magazine cover featuring Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives).
However, you won’t see this 75-by-110-foot billboard in Times Square or while driving down the highway. It’s laying flat on the ground in the middle of the Nevada desert and can only be seen from the air or by satellite. If you are having trouble picturing what a 75-by-110-foot billboard would look like, just take a look at the image to the right. If you look carefully, you can see a tiny pickup truck parked under Eva Longoria. The poor guys in the truck are probably responsible for sweeping the sand off the billboard everyday.
In case you are wondering, the tagline printed above the Maxim cover says “The only magazine big enough to be seen from space - and only in Vegas!”
If you have Google Earth (Mac or PC) installed on your computer, click on this KML link to check it out. Otherwise, if you are in Las Vegas during the next week or so, rent a hot air balloon and fly it into the desert. The billboard is located just outside the town of Primm, near the California state line. Have fun.
methodshop | Comments (0) | General, Broadband, Software
April 15, 2006
Computers in Movies
Ever notice how different computers are in the movies from real life? Movie computers are always more powerful, full of special features and can do anything in the matter of seconds if the right person is behind the keyboard.
For example, the movies have taught us that anyone can launch a nuclear missile if you know the password (War Games) and infecting the entire Internet with a devastating computer virus is as simple as typing “UPLOAD VIRUS” (Fortress). But these are just a couple examples.
Read More: Computers in Movies - Fact vs Fiction
Links of Interest: Bollywood Movies Bollywood Movies
methodshop | Comments (0) | General, Broadband, Video
April 08, 2006
Save Your iPod’s Hard Drive
After 2 years of heavy hard drive use, my 30GB 3G iPod died last week. The iPod itself is fine, but the hard drive is toast. Luckily I was able to pull most of my important files off (some of them one at a time). Right now the guys at iPodMods are fixing it for me.
Why did this happen? I wasn’t just using my iPod for playing music. I was transporting large amounts of files everyday to and from work and even capturing DV video to my iPod. I also kept my iPod mounted to my computer all day and played music off it. As I later learned, this is not exactly a smart move. Over time I basically grinded my iPod’s hard drive into the dirt. So please learn from my mistakes. Try to use your iPod mostly for music and not for massive and frequent file transports.
I mailed my iPod off iPodMods to get fixed but I still need a portable hard drive to shuttle files back and forth with me everyday. I needed a small and reliable drive that I can use with both Macs and PCs. I also wanted one made by a very well known hard drive manufacturer. My data is very important to me and spending a little extra for a quality hard drive is well worth it in the long run. I had a bad experience with a cheap Maxtor hard drive before and will never buy a crappy drive for my data again. After an extended search I found the perfect match: the Seagate Pocket Hard Drive.
The Seagate Pocket Hard Drive is a standard high-speed USB 2.0, bus-powered device. It provides a true “plug and play” connection that supports hot plugging so you can connect or disconnect the drive even when your computer is on. The drive receives power directly through the USB connector so there is no need for an external power source or batteries.
The high-speed USB 2.0 is backward compatible with the older USB 1.1 standard. However, USB 1.1 only supports transfer rates of 12 Mbits/sec. To take advantage of the speed of your Pocket Hard Drive, connect it to a computer that supports high-speed USB 2.0 connections. High-speed USB 2.0 supports data rates up to 480 Mbits/sec (40 times faster than USB 1.1). You can save any type of data and files on the device including text, graphics, programs, music, and even multimedia files.
This hard drive is big on storage but small in size. If you are looking to put fewer “hard drive miles” on your iPod, then definitely look into getting an alternate portable data drive.
Seagate is well known for their quality drives and their Pocket Hard Drive gets the job done at a great price.
methodshop | Comments (0) | General, Music, Portable, Peripherals
April 05, 2006
Evolution of the Apple OS
On April 1, 2006 Apple celebrated it’s 30th birthday.
Having created one of the first personal computers and the graphical mouse-and-menu interface most PCs now use, it is now reshaping the music industry with the iPod and iTunes.
To celebrate the company’s birthday, Wired News has a series of special features this month that can be viewed here.
One of the Wired features is a photo evolution of the Apple OS from Lisa and the MultiFinder to OS X.
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01-02-03-04-05-06
NERD ALERT: Love numbers and weird chronological oddities? At 1:02 AM and 3 seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it will be the 1st hour of the day, the 2nd minute of the hour, the 3rd second of that minute in the 4th month and the 5th day of ‘06… or just 01-02-03-04-05-06 for short.
Can’t stay up until 1:02 AM? There is a controversial second chance to observe this event at 1:02 PM. The only problem is most countries and the US military consider 1:02 PM to be really 13:02 PM. Feel free to debate this at your next local science club meeting, but any hardcore math nerd will probably say that it doesn’t count.
Speaking of nerds, take a closer look at the time this blog post is dated. Did I stay up late and submit it at exactly 01 02 03 04 05 06, or did I schedule it… hummm.
[Source: AP News]
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