Like so many other people, I’ve switched my personal email use over to Gmail. In fact, I did it back in mid-2005, redirecting my personal address on my private fosketts.net domain from Dreamhost’s POP mail service to my gmail account. I’ve been happy with it ever since, but my old mail still sat on my […]
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Just Picked Up a Cheap Bluetooth Headset
So I was disappointed by the range and sound quality for my Cardo Scala 500 when used with the iPhone. It was good with the BlackBerry but so bad with the Apple that I ended up using the wired headphones most of the time. Today I stopped by the local Best Buy and discovered the […]
Music in the Wild World
OK, so let’s get this whole new world of music straight… Apple now allows iPhone and iTouch users to buy iTunes songs without a computer and they’ve teamed up with Starbucks to offer in-store song shopping, but not yet… Amazon.com now sells real mp3s with no DRM or watermarking for less than iTunes, making Apple […]
Of Price Cuts and Buyers’ Remorse
On Wednesday, Apple dropped the price of the iPhone from $599 to $399. Predictably, many people went wild, complaining that they got ripped off by this 33% price cut after just 10 weeks of sales, while others defended the move, comparing it to price cuts by Sony (PS3), Microsoft (XBox), and even Apple itself (Mac […]
Apple Rocks the Flash
Apple just announced a total refresh of their iPod line, bumping up storage capacity across the board. The little Shuffle is the only one without more storage (still at 1 GB), but the Nano now has a nice screen (with movies) and 4 or 8 GB of flash storage. The disk-based iPod (now the “Classic”) […]
