Why Do Software Engineers Hate People?
It’s 2010. Are you kidding me?
It’s 2010. Are you kidding me?
One of the main reasons I switched to iTunes (and the iPod) was the way it handled podcasts. I listen to quite a few podcasts and this would be intensely frustrating without a setup that automatically handled the downloading, copying and deleting of these files. For the most part iTunes is pretty good at what [...]
Why is it so hard for iTunes to give me an idea of how much disk space my proposed transfer is going to take on my iPod? Instead I’m left to guess how many megabytes that John Lennon album is supposed to take up and push forward simply by trial and error. Not really what [...]
As regular readers would be aware, I’m a fan of giving Apple money. I like my iPod Nano I bought on my birthday last year and I’m pretty sure my next laptop will be a MacBook of some description. I also took the opportunity to avail myself of some of the DRM-free tracks that went [...]
As I’ve made clear in a few posts to the blog, I believe in DRM-free music. I believe in it so much I’m willing to support the Russian mob and spend $20 on a Damon Albarn side-project I don’t even really want. Yesterday, though, promised to be the end of those dalliances for good when [...]
With the impending launch of the iPhone in the US sometime next month prepare yourself for two things. First, prepare for the inevitable slew of articles from journalists attributing the success of the device to the multi-touch screen and its otherwise breakthrough design. Second, get ready for the similarly inevitable slew of challengers that will line-up against [...]
Some are calling it the end of DRM. That’s probably going a bit far. DRM seems too lucrative in the burgeoning markets of ringtones and videos to disappear anytime soon. Still, as far as music albums go, the announcement by EMI that it would be making its entire digital catalgoue available DRM-free was incredible news. [...]