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iPodVox Pop: What's on your iPhone app wish list?Merlin Mann | Oct 17 2007Now that Steve has announced there's an iPhone/iPod Touch SDK coming in February, what's at the top of your application wish list? The Question to YouWhat’s the first application for iPhone you’d like to see? Where’s the biggest hole in your iPhone world right now? 68 Comments
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Microsoft to boldly go where Apple is already going...eventuallyMerlin Mann | Apr 7 2007Microsoft changes tune on selling DRM-free songs Exciting news on the digital music front. Microsoft plans to follow Apple's plan to sell DRM-free tracks from EMI to its extant army of Zune enthusiasts. Welcome to the social:
Way to innovate, Redmond. Once the period of EMI's exclusive deal with Apple has ended, this should make both Zune owners very happy. [via: Boing Boing: Microsoft dropping DRM from Zune Music Store] POSTED IN:
Vox Pop: Want HD video from iTunes and Apple TV?Merlin Mann | Mar 25 2007Since the new TV can handle video up to HD's 720p resolution, there's been a lot of speculation about whether the iTunes store will eventually start selling HD content, such as TV shows and movies. You can bet that the desire for that quality of presentation is theoretically out there (at least it is for this HD TV owner). The problem, as many folks have discussed at length, is that the file size for HD movies, in particular, may be prohibitively large for the garden-variety home broadband user. As Greg Keene notes, "With simple math, we can extrapolate that a 2-hour movie would be about 3.9 GB." That's not only a substantially lengthy download for, say, a residential DSL subscriber, it also represents the investment of over 10% of the available space on the Apple TV's drive (as well as, it should be noted, an equivalent chunk of space back on your Mac or PC's disk). read more »POSTED IN:
Cool-looking "Buddha Machine"Merlin Mann | Feb 11 2007I've been hearing about the $25 Buddha Machine for a while (I recall Leo mentioning it once) and was tempted enough to go ahead and order my own today over on Forced Exposure (probably not least because of the amazing exploded drawing they use as a logo). From the FAQ (which comes from a Pop Matters review):
Sean notes that the manufacturers will also let you download uncompressed versions of the 9 included drones for free, so you could presumably emulate some of the functionality on your iPod. Friendly. Anybody out there got one of these? How you enjoying it? POSTED IN:
Introducing the Hipster ShuffleMerlin Mann | Jan 29 2007POSTED IN:
Let OS X developers at the iPhone. Please.Merlin Mann | Jan 11 2007Sixfoot6 Archives: 30 Things the iPhone Could Do That You Haven't Thought of Yet Ryan's list contains a lot of the tear-inducingly sexy fantasies that were going through my own mind on Tuesday morning when we all heard that the iPhone was going to run OS X. Like a lot of my friends, I (probably naively) took the announcement to mean that, as on my own Mac, I'd be able to install Cocoa applications built to take advantage of announced features like WebKit, Core Animation, and so on. Sure, given the foreseeable hardware limitations, these wouldn't be the exact applications that we're each running on our MacBooks today, but, hell, I'd take "OmniOutliner Mobile" or "iTerm Lite" or "Textmate for iPhone" in a heartbeat. No question. Yesterday morning, though, I started to hear rumbles about the "inability for users to install additional applications of their choosing." And then later, after Brian from Gizmodo got a hands-on demo along with a sit-down with official Apple honchos, he noted...
...and I died a little inside. read more »POSTED IN:
Podophile on Actiontastic for GTD with your iPodMerlin Mann | Dec 28 2006Getting Things Done With Your iPod My head swims with the number of Mac GTD apps that have sprung up over the last year or so, one of which is the Quicksilver-friendly Actiontastic. Although I haven't spent more than a few minutes playing with Actiontastic, as described by Podophile it appears to merit a look for Hipster PDA-centric iPod fans: read more » POSTED IN:
Bandwagon: Links not to miss, 2006-11-27Merlin Mann | Nov 27 2006A few of the links that have been pretty popular on other sites, which I’d be remiss not to mention in passing here: read more »POSTED IN:
Revenge of the Smart Playlist: 5 tricks for packrats & power usersMerlin Mann | Nov 10 2006The success of yesterday's post on the basics of Smart Playlists makes me think you might enjoy seeing a few more. So, today I want to show you how to get control of a very large iTunes library -- to save space by getting rid of stuff you're not enjoying or listening to, as well as bubble up stuff you may not even realize you like. If you are an iTunes packrat but feel overwhelmed by your collection (or are simply running out of drive space), try these recipes for Smart Playlists to help you get it together. read more »POSTED IN:
"Music Only" for your iTunes playlistsMerlin Mann | Nov 9 2006New for Friday 11/10: In my MacBreak Weekly capacity as Vice-President in Charge of Digging Pointless Ratholes™, I recently mentioned some tricks that I use to create better playlists in iTunes. One of these tricks -- which is an oldie, and which I'm certain I yoinked from some uncredited smarter person out in the blogtropolis -- is to create a "Music Only" list. So you know how you have increasing buttloads of non-music (podcasts, audio books, etc.) in your iTunes library? It's really annoying to throw on one of your sexy Smart Playlists or the Party Shuffle, only to have a 20 minute nap or a Noam Chomsky lecture kick in. I get around this by basing almost all my Smart Playlists on my one canonical "Music Only" list, which currently looks like this: Yes, it's very hacky, and yes there's probably a more elegant way to accomplish this effect, but so far it's been a handy jumping off point for my favorite Smart Playlists. This helps me build stuff like... read more »POSTED IN:
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