Below are posts from August 2008
Do you own a first gen Nano? If so, you might want to check out the Apple support page – especially if it seems to be running hot.
Evidently there is a know acknowledged glitch that can cause them to malfunction slightly, and by that I mean ‘catch on fire and explode’. Nothing major though.
Check out this article on Consumerist, then head over to the support page and see if your serial number jibes up with the first gen production date. if it does, consider giving Apple a call or stopping by to …
Let’s start the day with a bit of a rant, shall we?
Been to the App Store lately? Have you clicked an application and decided to read the reviews given for an app before laying down your hard earned cash for it?
Have you been dismayed at the many inane and irrelevant comments that have been posted by people who haven’t even tried the application, but are instead bitching that it should ‘be free’ (don’t get me started on that particular line of idiocy) or that it should have X function instead of Y function?
Yeah, me too.
Listen folks – it’s called …
Bringing the total bonus time they’re offering as penance for the shoddy rollout to a whopping 90 days. That, my friends, is how you make amends – now, where’s my free App Store credit to make up for the crappy battery life on my iphone 3g? 
We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension.
This is in addition to the one month extension most subscribers have already received. We are …
Pretty slick looking bag – although I’m still convinced that the TSA is in cahoots with the 3rd party accessory industry.
Hmm…where did I put my tinfoil hat?
TOM BIHN, a designer, manufacturer, and retailer of laptop bags, backpacks, messenger bags, and briefcases, has introduced the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase, a new “checkpoint friendly” briefcase-style laptop bag with a highly protective compartment for a laptop computer.
The Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase Bihn’s answer to an intensive, five-month design challenge issued by the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) to design a laptop bag that meets its newly implemented “checkpoint friendly” program guidelines. …
I’m not much of a gamer. I don’t have the patience or coordination for games frankly – hell, Tic Tac Toe frustrates me if that is any indicator. However, I do enjoy a nice diversionary game on occasion. Fortunately, my iPhone provides me with several ways to distract myself while standing in line or sitting in traffic (I kid, I kid, sheesh).
Check out some of these great (and free) games. Title links jump to the appropriate page in the iTunes App Store.
Cannon Challenge – Discovery Interactive
From the Discovery Channel/.com team comes a very cool strategy …
Richmond, VA – The SkyBlueCanvas Development Team has announced the release of version 1.1 Beta of the SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight content management system (CMS). The new version includes improvements to the core functionality as well as several new features including single-click content publishing and re-ordering, an enhanced Plugin API (application programming interface) and simplified module placement and publishing.
“We have focused our efforts on responding to the great feedback we’ve received from our users”, says Scott Lewis, the creator and lead developer of SkyBlueCanvas. “Over the next several weeks we will be preparing a release candidate of the new version …
Kilmarnock, UK – Malkinware is proud to introduce Reference Tracker 1.0, their academic reference manager and research tool for Mac OS X. Reference Tracker is an indispensable tool for writers, researchers or students. It creates documents that store all the citations and references in an essay, research project, or book and automatically creates Harvard or APA (American Psychological Association) formatted reference lists to insert when needed.
Among Reference Tracker’s unique features is there is no need to type out all the details of a referenced book. Just give Reference Tracker the book’s ISBN and it will fetch all the …
Cuijk, Netherlands – DiskLibrary is a fun and easy to use media cataloging application for Mac OS X. DiskLibrary is indispensable if you have a lot of media to keep track of. DiskLibrary catalogs not just your complete file structure, it also creates thumbnails, and stores metadata, for most popular media formats. DiskLibrary is capable of importing export formats from CDFinder, FileFinder, WhereIsIt and DiskTracker.
What’s new:
* [FIXED] Crash when deleting a catalog
* [NEW] Improved support for importing DiskTracker export files
* [NEW] Support for Flash video (.flv) files
* [FIXED] Issue with cataloging certain UDF disc…
Waterloo, Ontario – SuperMegaUltraGroovy and toastycode today announced the immediate availability of TapeDeck 1.1, a free update to the popular recording application for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The new features in TapeDeck 1.1 make it easier to share tapes with others. By popular request, TapeDeck now imports from and exports to other audio formats, such as AIFF and MP3. And now, in addition to emailing tapes to friends and family, TapeDeck users can upload their recordings to YouTube with just a few clicks.
“We are especially excited about the YouTube uploading feature,” says Chris Liscio, SuperMegaUltraGroovy’s founder. “Our …
Simplify Media is now available for the iPhone and Touch. Free for the first 100,000 people to download it – so hurry up, as this one will go quick.
You can even invite up to 30 people to share your music via their Windows, Mac, Linux or iPod based systems.
Check out their demo video:
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