Bringing Technology out of The Cloud and Down to Earth…
Advertisements …And by distant past I mean, like Steve Jobs time frame… or just 15 years ago. I’m an Amazon Prime Member. For this service, I, like everyone else who subscribes to this service, get unlimited, free, 2-day shipping on all of my Amazon, physical goods, purchases and all of the digital video my internet …
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Advertisements Streamers and video junkies rejoice..! I’ve been a Netflix subscriber for years. I started off as a DVD subscriber and at one point had three to four DVD’s flowing in and out of my house a week. When the streaming biz started, we jumped on that too, as it was sometimes easier to stream …
Advertisements Amazon jumps into the streaming music business with the release of Prime Music. The world of digital music is complicated. With the RIAA still occasionally chasing after folks for illegally sharing copyrighted files, and artists complaining of poor pay-outs when it comes to pay to play rates on their songs that are actually streamed …
Advertisements The video rental industry is feeling the economic pinch, and key player Netflix is in the thick of it. Today, I received the notice that was already floating around the internet – Your plan rate is going up. Here is a screen shot of the note that I got from them, outlining the changes: …
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Advertisements This isn’t new news to anyone, but its significant in that most everyone will be able to get DRM free music out of iTunes. Ever since the dawn of iTunes, music has been tied to your Apple ID, and not playable on anything other than an authorized computer and a connected iPod (be it …
Advertisements Some of the best things about having an iPod is being able to play YOUR music just about anywhere, any time you want. If you’re the kind of person that has the music in them all the time, allowing it to resonate in your ears when you want or need it to is important …
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Advertisements One of the best things about writing for Gear Diary is the company that you keep. Judie aside, she has assembled one of the BEST teams of writers this side of the blogosphere that I’ve had the pleasure of being associated with. That said, I get very excited when we cross post between our …
Advertisements Comcast wants to bring social networking to a set-top box near you… I am a networking junkie. I’ve learned over the past couple of years that what you know isn’t always as important as who you know. While social networking can be fun, in many ways I see it as just a quicker way …
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Advertisements Sometimes, I need to have white noise playing in the background in order to be able to concentrate. This can take the form of music (CD, MP3’s etc), radio (Internet or other), or the TV. Sometimes, the simple sound of the air circulating in the room that I’m in can be deafening, and …
Advertisements In an interesting move, iTunes has a shot fired across its distribution-bow… I’ve been into digital music since 1998. I bought a Diamond MP3 player and a 32MB storage card back in the day, and was listening to MP3’s I had ripped from MY CD collection at all times of the day and night. …
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