21 Nov
Sounds scandalous, doesn’t it? No, it’s not what you might think. The other iJacking has been around for a a long while now. This is new. Excerpted from this WIRED article…
Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod.
Crandall was boldly approached by another iPod user, a 30ish woman bopping enthusiastically to some high-energy tune.
“She walked right [...]
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14 Nov
In an effort to stay somewhat in stride with the household laundry (as any good househusband would do) I scooped up all of the dirty laundry I could find this morning. Most of it was in the clothes hamper where any good househusband would place it, but other random articles of clothing were found on [...]
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04 Nov
I recently picked up a Griffin iTrip for my Apple iPod . This little device broadcasts the audio from my iPod to any nearby (optimally within three feet) FM radio. (You remember FM radio, right?)
The iTrip comes packaged with a collection of “songs” in the form of mp3 files. Each “song” is about five seconds [...]
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02 Nov
A few months ago I purchased one of those nifty new HDTV sets that all the kids are raving about these days.
The picture looks great (when supplied with the proper signals), but it hasn’t made TV shows any better. Was I ripped off? Shouldn’t there be a “plot enrichment” mode? Can’t it be made to [...]
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