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➠ July 1, 2007
Apple - Environment - Recycle Your iPod or Cell Phone
Apple offer free recycling for old iPods and cellphones — Fill in your details, print out a postage-paid mailing slip, and send them in.
➠ February 6, 2007
Apple - Thoughts on Music
Steve Jobs publicly calls for the record companies to drop their requirement for DRM on online music sales: “Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. […] This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat.”
➠ February 5, 2007
BBC NEWS | Deal ends Beatles' Apple battle
It’s interesting that this news has been released today, when there were (inaccurate) rumblings a month ago that there would be a Beatles iPod commercial during last night’s Superbowl. Makes you wonder if it was planned but pulled.
➠ November 14, 2006
Apple Teams Up With Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM & United to Deliver iPod Integration
Wow. What a great move by Apple. Further domination of the iPod-only connector, plus it solves the “iPod batteries only last 4 hours when watching video, that’s too short for a long-haul flight” problem in one foul swoop.
➠ October 25, 2006
➠ October 16, 2006
Q&A: Jobs on iPod's Cultural Impact - Newsweek
Steve Jobs: “I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left! You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable.”. Subtle subtext: “iPods get you laid”
➠ September 14, 2006
➠ September 4, 2006
cabel.name: Multiplayer Game Of The Year
Cabel reviews the Nike+ shoe+iPod combo. Sounds like the kind of thing that might get me moving, like the Sportbrain of olde.
➠ September 3, 2006
➠ July 14, 2006
Apple Computer Nike + iPod Sport Kit
Looks like a splendidly well designed and smartly integrated piece of kit. Uses a small shoe sensor to count your steps, an iPod nano to track them and store the data, iTunes to sync it, and a Nike-run website to visualize it over time. If I were ever planning to get off my arse, this would probably convince me to drop $80 on Nike trainers.
➠ June 17, 2006
➠ June 8, 2006
➠ May 29, 2006
➠ May 12, 2006
Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Rob Glaser
Head of Real/Rhapsody opens mouth, shite dribbles out.
➠ March 31, 2006
➠ March 30, 2006
➠ February 28, 2006
Apple - iPod Hi-Fi
Obviously, I’m not a neutral observer, but my immediate reaction is that it had better sound good, cause it looks like crap.
➠ January 12, 2006
TuneCenter - Griffin Technology
Wow, this is a nicely designed piece of kit. Given that Apple’s on “AV Connection Kit” costs the same, and is lacking a nice on-screen display for browsing your music collection, Griffin are going to sell a gajillion of these.
➠ November 15, 2005
Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker
BitTorrent tracker focused on video content of a suitable resolution for video iPods.
➠ October 13, 2005
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software
Hurrah for Mark Pilgrim! Quick instructions on getting a fair use from your DVDs.
Daring Fireball: Brief Observations Regarding the New Stuff Announced at Today's Special Event
Some bullet points of interest about Apple’s announcements today. I’ll take this time to make my guess: A video-capable “Airport Express” with Remote Control, and an online movie store announced at MacWorld.
➠ September 15, 2005
Apple breaks the iPod UI a little more
Number of button presses required to see/change the rating of a track on the iPod nano: Three, Four or Five, depending on whether you have Lyrics and Cover Art attached to the track. Hey Apple! Remember “consistency”?
➠ September 12, 2005
➠ September 7, 2005
Apple - iPod nano
The replacement for the iPod mini is just delectable. Tiny, shiny, and available in a sleek black.
➠ February 25, 2005
New Toy
I treated myself to a new iPod, as I await our tax refund. This replaces the 20Gb 2nd gen one I bought in August 2002. I expect this one to be full within 9 months too.
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.