Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 86 views
According to his own blog, 18 year old Even Sandvold Roland is a big fan of Dave Matthews Band. His excitement was therefor high when he discovered that their new album was going to be released bit by bit ahead of time on iTunes. Hitting the link, he got the all too familiar message (at least for us in Europe) “only available in the USA”. Annoyed as one can understand, he tweeted the following message on the microblog service twitter (translated from Norwegian): “Pissed now! iTunes Music Pass for Dave Matthews Band’s new album is only available in the USA. Typical! Don’t complain about pirating!” Nothing out of the ordinary so far, but the reply he got from the Artists and Repertoire manager from Warner Music Norway, Terje Pedersen , certainly explains why there’s now a trend on Twitter called #warnerfail : “I think you should steal it, then you can brag about the process on your little kid blog afterward. After all I don’t want you to be angry”. It should also be mentioned that the Norwegian word for “little kid” (alternately “brat”, “little kid” is from the Oxford dictionary) he used is a curse word that doesn’t have a good translation, and that directly translated it would be “shit kid”. The story has blown up big time and Even has been on radio talking about it, as well as his own blog and articles in national newspapers in Norway. the original reply from Terje Pedersen has been deleted, but can still be seen as a screenshot on Even’s blog and at the time of this writing it can also be seen by searching for “drittungebloggen” on Twitter. Terje Pedersen later apologized for the incident in a comment on Even’s blog , but frankly the apology talked more about why the record industry is still in the stone age. The story is probably not over yet and I’m sure we’ll hear more about it in the next few days. Record companies are extremely busy digging their own graves these days, with the Pirate Bay trial giving pirating more free advertising than anyone could have hoped (or feared) and I doubt Warner will have more supporters after this little stunt. That fact makes it even more ironic that this whole story started because Even tried to pay for his music, but no-one would take his money.
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Record Labels Still Hate You. #warnerfail
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 231 views
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 206 views
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 108 views
Browsing around the forums I see a few people purchasing screen protectors for their MP3 players that have glass screens. Some might say better safe than sorry but these screens are much more durable than one would think. Below I put a few of these glass screen players though some rather harsh scratch tests, well beyond what the vast majority of users might experience.
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Glass Screen Durability Test: A Lesson on the Mohs Hardness Scale
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 245 views
The new information on ostensibly preparing “answer” on iPod Touch from party Microsoft. It as you fine see, any not the photo, but a common view to receive it is possible. The technical information while almost any. I will watch development of this thriller.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 122 views
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ILUV Clock Radio for iPod and iPhone – 89.99 USD
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 94 views
Sony updates their stick player series every so often, and this time it’s the Asian market that’s getting a refresh. In Asia, Sony uses the NW model numbering for the players, while in Europe and the US we have the NWZ series. While it doesn’t seem like there is any difference, players don’t often mix between the two markets and this is most likely another player we’ll never see outside Asia. For some reason the Asian Sony stick players have a much more impressive feature set than we’ve ever seen over here. Amon the more unusual features for a player that size is a 30 hour battery which can be charged in only 1 hour, a color LCD screen and capacities up to 8GB. The player will also feature interchangeable face plates like the last Asia-only E-020 series did. If only Sony would release these players over here instead of the less impressive B130 series we have, then there might finally be a real competitor to the Sansa clip. [ Sony Japan (translated) via GenerationMP3 ]
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Sony Japan Announces E-040 Series
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Monday, April 20th, 2009 213 views
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Monday, April 20th, 2009 328 views
Apple has dispatched to developers the third beta version of operational system iPhone OS 3.0 which release is expected in the middle of summer.
Visual changes in the new beta version while it has not been noticed, therefore they do not become so obvious from the very beginning. Changes directly have concerned SDK (software development kit – a set of tool means for an application creation for iPhone/iPod touch) and such components, as Xcode IDE (the integrated environment of working out), Interface Builder (utilities for creation of interfaces) and Dashcode (the tool for creation of widgets).
In the accompanying documentation it is specified, that in this beta version it is impossible to test the applications compatible to the previous versions of OS. Apple promises to correct this situation in one of following versions.
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Monday, April 20th, 2009 192 views
iPhone complaints was a thing that people most watched for, but iPhone complaints were truly things that was unforeseen before. iphone made a nonplusing became] the must-have electronic gadget of 2007 by the backing of Apple’s advertising unluckily, iPhone complaints came out the exhilaration alert to as well as weaknesses of the iPhone system. While they didn’t necessarily be sorry of their decisions, they started to second-guess the rapidity with which they sank into the iPhone trend. A large spectrum of iPhone complaints has overwhelmed the fame of the Apple device. While the iPhone lingers a status symbol, new customers are more cautious to buy it, not wanting to buy into the early hype that burned lots of individuals.
The Sucker Punch
The underlying agreements between Apple as well as AT&T are the issue that many customers were not aware of all through the early iPhone hype. Without a cell phone contract, the iPhone could not be used and badly, the iPhone could only work on the AT&T network. Put bluntly, users would need to opt AT&T as their provider if they wanted to be able to operate their iPhones.
This made a storm of iPhone complaints. Users with pre-existing cell phone plans did not want to have to pay fees to opt out of their contracts in order to opt a new contract with AT&T. And for those without contracts, the AT&T plans were a lot more costly than they expected. Numerous iPhone complaints centered on the extreme cost of the iPhone itself, but the AT&T service plans were even more extreme.
The iPhone requires more than a simple cell phone plan; it requires a multimedia plan. In other words, while many cell phone plans include minutes and a certain quantity of data transfers, the perks of the iPhone are completely multimedia related.
These costs hastily added up, and the additional fees for doing over these limits spawned even more iPhone complaints. Owing to the iPhone being locked onto the AT&T system, AT&T reserved the right to charge whatever it wanted; it had no competition. Fortunately, hackers have Currently unlocked the iPhone, allowing it to work under other providers of cell phone.
Hopefully, by the iPhone unlocking there will be a healthy competition environment as well as plans prices will decrease. This really advantages the customers. In fact, iPhone remains a must-have gadget for anyone in quest of social status even if iPhone complaints come and go.
Does that answer your question? For further explanation about iPhone complaints you can find the complete guide here!
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