Things have slowed to a crawl around Nuketown, and I can blame a lot of that on two failing computers. The first to go was Sue’s Vaio, which had been freezing up and hibernating unexpectedly since the day she first powered it up. Within the last few weeks however, things got much worse; where as … Read more
Bill Gates says that ultimately, cellphones will kill the iPod as they invade its music-playing market. It’s possible, but three big things have to happen first: 1) Storage: Cellphones need as much storage capacity as an iPod. Don’t point to a 512 mb cellphone and say that’s going to get me to ditch my iPod; … Read more
I love my Macs, but I know they can be a little frustrating for the uninitiated, particularly those who come to the platform from Windows with absolutely no experience on the Mac. My goal with this blog entry is to help ease the transition a bit by addressing some of the frustrations that I’ve seen … Read more
Last weekend my wife and I were out computer shopping. Her for a new Dell laptop, me to dream of the laptop I might be able to buy around about 2007. We traveled to the King of Prussia Mall in southeast Pennsylvania, where Dell allegedly had a store, and to keep me quiet during Sue’s … Read more
I’ve spent a fair amount of time on Nuketown singing the praises of Audible.com, so I figure it’s only proper that I also mention the drawbacks. A friend of mine recently subscribed to Audible, and was eager to use his new MP3 player to listen to books. I’ve long hyped the benefits of Audible to … Read more
Radio sucks. iPods are everywhere. So someone got the brilliant idea of bypassing the vast audio wasteland that is the radio dial nowadays, and broadcasting original content directly to people’s iPods. Well, almost directly. The idea behind “podcasting” is brilliantly simple. We’ve already got a standard for syndicating text content on the Web, called “RSS” … Read more
Firefox Preview Release 1 is out, which is very cool — the browser’s come a long way from the ponderous days of Mozilla. What’s not cool though, is that the browser identifies its version number as “.01”, which threw my browser-sniffing script for a loop ’cause it assumed that anything .8 or higher was kosher … Read more
It’s no great secret around here that I’m a Mac fan, but I’ve got to say that Apple’s design for the new iMac has left me cold. As with the previous iMacs, it’s an all in one design. This time around though, that design takes the form of a flat-screen monitor that’s been bulked up … Read more
Out in the mainstream, a lot of people seem to think Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is the only game in town. That’s not surprising, given the huge number of people who use it, but there are alternatives, and after having played with it for the last two weeks, I think Firefox is one of the best. … Read more
It finally happened. After an year and a half, I’ve finally managed to fill my 10 gig iPod. This may not seem like a particularly impressive milestone to some — after all, I know people who’s music collections are upwards of 100 gig, But for me, as someone who doesn’t steal music off the Net, … Read more