A final point on the post about Steve Jobs’s letter to the music industry. In episode 84 of TWiT, Hahn Choi points one important factor in Apple wanting to keep DRM (especially FairPlay) on the iTunes Music Store. DRM adds lock-in. As Hahn points out – Since FairPlay is not …
In last night’s daily link dump, I had added a link to Steve Jobs’s article wherein he calls on the music industry to give up on DRM. I applaud the sentiment,but had mentioned that I wasn’t comfortable with how the article dismissed the idea of making opening up FairPlay to …
A very long time back, I had hoped to get started on using GTD. I’m sure you can guess that it hasn’t worked out. However, I have in my own way tried to start bringing some semblance of order to my life and have been surprised by just how much …
There exist a large number of bloggers out there, who blog about everything from world events to the colour of their poop that morning. I find blogging about the more mundane events of my life quite hard simply because I view my blog as a place to share my findings …
Came across this article where Lifehacker hands out some LH-love for Media Monkey :). The monkey is everywhere I tell ya! powered by performancing firefox
I finally got around to making some long overdue changes to my blogroll. The short version of the changes are: A new category for the podcasts I listen to Additions to the Geek News websites I read – the NYT tech section, Wired and Ars Technica Some deletions – 43 …
If you have decided to stay away from the cult of the iPod (like I have), your biggest headache typically is getting your songs onto the player. That’s not to say that the software supplied with your player doesn’t work, but I suppose you could say a monocycle works as …
It’s been a loong time since I posted here, but I came across something today that moved me so deeply I just had to say something about it. Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. At that time I am sure everyone of us wondered briefly …
I currently use Feedburner to handle my main site feed, in part because it takes care of the hassle of ensuring feed validity, providing Atom or RSS feeds and also the feed stats. One feature on Feedburner is identifying “Uncommon Uses” or sites where the feed content appears where it …
Everyone’s heard of it and I’m sure you’ve mistakenly fallen into that trap a few times as well – clicked on a link and found yourself at some blindess-inducing Myspace page – filled with flashing colours and annoying looped background music that leaves you scrambling for both the volume control …