Archive for August, 2007

NBC to End iTunes Sales of Its Shows

“NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes.”Media giants have new brilliant plan for making more money from their content: by pulling them off the most popular online music + video store.That is just so [ READ MORE ]

Beautiful World

  • August 30th, 2007
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I was just looking around the Japanese iTunes store and came upon Utada Hikaru’s new compilation. As it turns out, my favorite J-pop singer sang the song of the new Evangelion movie. Here’s clip of the promo for the album. The next one is from another anime “Freedom” with character designs from Katsuhiro Otomo of [ READ MORE ]

So long ATRAC, thanks for nothing

In case you missed it, Sony’s CONNECT music services based on the ATRAC audio format is finally — at long last — coming to an end. In North America and Europe, anyway.Unfortunately for the electronics giant, it’s a little too late for them to do so. The damage has already been done and the iPod [ READ MORE ]

Here’s her take

  • August 30th, 2007
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I think that it’s only fair that we link up to Ms. South Carolina’s response to the massive viewing of her flub on the pageant. Video below. What’s your take[ READ MORE ]

As much as I dont want to say it

  • August 29th, 2007
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She is one clueless teen. I just saw this on CNN and it has to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen since Jay Leno’s take on Larry King’s Paris Hilton post-jail interview. I just had to keep saying “OMG OMG OMG!” I can’t believe that she got that far in the competition. I [ READ MORE ]

iPhone Unlocked!

While I am not surprised that the iPhone has been finally unlocked for use with other services, I am however surprised that it took this long for the device to be freed. As the video (even if it is being somewhat blurred) below will show, the iPhone has ben unlocked. So what does this mean [ READ MORE ]

Coffee Seer

  • August 20th, 2007
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Apparently your taste in coffee describes what kind of person you are. I recently stumbled upon the “Starbucks Oracle”. Since Starbuckhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs is currently aiming for the 3rd place you go to aside from your house and the office, this actually says a lot. So it was a lazy afternoon gave it a shot over at [ READ MORE ]

My new favorite sites

  • August 12th, 2007
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Weekend blogging brings a certain type of peace and relaxation for me. Now why does that sound soo weird. Two things mentioned recently in one of the podcasts I listen to which happens to be Leo Laporte’http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs twit.tv. In a recent show they mention the human search engine Mahalo and Morgan Webb’s Webb Alert (yes [ READ MORE ]

DSL Rant

  • August 12th, 2007
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In the wake of my DSL rant I totally lost my telephone line and internet line in mere hours after I ranted about it. The following day I had a new cable internet line connected. It’s just seriously lame. My phone finally got fixed this afternoon but my DSL is still down. Still lame in [ READ MORE ]

Wow it’s been a long time since I posted

of course counting THE DAYS THAT MY STUPID DSL HAS BEEN OFF THE HOOK WHILE GETTINGLAME CUSTOMER SERVICE AT THE SAME TIME AND WONDERING WHY IT TAKES THE LARGEST PHONE COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY A WEEK TO FIX MY STUPID DSL. end of rant I just had to get that out of my chest. It’s [ READ MORE ]

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