No more unlimited data =/
Oh noes :(
It’s evil genius. My father will probably go to $15/month and can use the tethering, and I’ll probably drop from $30 unlimited to the $25 limited, but the 2GB cap is going to be there at the back of my mind, annoying me.
Yay. Tethering.
Engadget HD has a source that’s claims to have seen the latest builds of the 360 Dashboard, including a Hulu app :O
It’s already my Netflix box, but adding Hulu would be fantastic. What remains to be seen is whether or not the Hulu premiere content is going to impact this. I’m still not clear on what they’re going to offer as premiere content, or whether I’m willing to pay for it, but this is a huge step forward for cable-less me :D
Pretty good stuff — hope he’s not too mad :)
iTunes link to the podcast — it’s episode 151.
Great, huh? :)
I just emailed Steve Jobs.
Steve –
I’m eager to get an iPad and could justify it if iPhone OS offered Fast User Switching, a la Mac OS.
When my woman gets onto the device, I’d love for her to be able to switch users and have all of her app preferences loaded.
- Tweetdeck
- WordPress
- Safari bookmarks/cookies/keychain
- Apple Game achievements
- iAd stats (we’re likely to see remarkably different ads).
… does this feel like something you guys are interested in?
I’m kinda excited to see if I get a reply.
I moved 8500 mailboxes over the weekend, and BOY are my arms tired!
…but seriously folks… I’m tired. It was grueling and lumpy. I was really disappointed w/ the whole affair and told my boss about it. He calmed me by telling me that the customer didn’t want to pay for the discovery & were happy w/ taking a few lumps.
That helps a little, but I still have 8500 customers who got less-than-my-best. That bums me out.
MobileRSS is on sale for $0.99 today. I have no idea how long the sale will last, but I’ve been using the free client for about a month now and it’s the only Google Reader (greader) RSS client for the iPhone that I’ve found useful/worth using.
The biggest feature that won me over is the fact that it syncs so seamlessly and quickly with the web interface. I’ve tried 3 or 4 other greader apps and they’ve all been slower and less reliable than the mobile Safari greader interface.
MobileRSS just works, and it offers Instapaper, Facebook, ReadItLater, Email and Twitter integration. Try out the free, ad-supported version first.
TUAW just clued me into iDisplay.
OMG is it incredible. mY iPhone is now a 2nd display for my netbook! XD
The Apple Blog just posted an interesting article about Wall Street Journal‘s (WSJ) upcoming iPad subscription cost:
via Wall Street Journal to Charge $17.99 a Month for iPad Subscriptions.
Just when you thought the iPad might be able to breathe some life back into the failing print industry, the industry itself seems dead set on making sure that doesn’t happen.
Well said. There’s no WAY that I would pay that much for their content.
Let’s pretend for a minute that this wasn’t WSJ and was instead some great video game or Mac site, making this argument meaningful to me (no offense, WSJ). For a site to ask me to pay for their so-called premium content (that IS their argument here, isn’t it?), I’d have to consider their exclusive content so much better than what’s already freely available on the internet, that I’d be willing to pay for it.
Is that even possible? In today’s information age, can I fathom wanting to pay for text? I already pay for media (music and video games), but I consume so much free, readily-available text in the form of interesting web articles (<3 Instapaper) that I already can’t keep up with everything that I find interesting.
Let me restate that another way:
There’s more quality free content available to me than I have time to consume.
Without even considering the cost of said premium content, I’ve already got to commit myself to prioritizing it above the free content since I don’t want to waste my money. Regardless of just how good this premium content may be, the internet also provides a wealth of great reading. The TRUE draw of a premium subscription is the promise of no longer needing to sift through hundreds of RSS feeds to filter out the delicious bits of reading, but the drawback of a premium subscription is it’s homogeneous nature. The very benefit they offer is their weakness:
Filtered, editorialized access to the same information that’s already available to me on the internet.
Think about that for a minute.
Are you willing to pay $215.88 every year for that privilege? Do you trust WSJ’s editorial process enough to not filter out dissenting views?
Snes9x is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator that lets you play Super NES games on your computer (Mac & PC). The emulator itself is legal, and if you own an original cartridge of the SNES game, then it’s apparently ok to have a copy of the program in a file on your computer, known as a ROM.
Snes9X has been around for ages, & I’ve toyed around w/ it for a grand total of about 15 minutes in the past. As entertaining as it was, there were always newer/different games to be had. My recent aquisition of the Macbook Mini (mbm) led me to reconsider Snes9X since the netbook isn’t powerful enough to play any modern games.
The first thing I realized was that the 10″ screen on netbooks is pretty well suited to playing 16bit SNES games. When I last tried SNES games on my other monitors, today’s monstrous resolutions make the blocky graphics start to look really ridiculous. They’re still as charming and innocent as you remember them, but it’s just not fair. After I smiled and laughed and tried out a few titles (Yoshi’s Island!), I immediately settled back into some Chrono Trigger. I’ve finished probably 30 hours of it on the DS, but my DS is currently on loan performing Animal Crossing duty for my woman, so I decided to start fresh.
After playing about an hour or so of Chrono Trigger, I realized I was hooked. The experience of playing SNES on the mbm is really satisfying! It’s a little tough playing twitch-based games on a qwerty keyboard, but the graphics, sound and emulation are perfect. Next up… a controller.
I just added Prowl Notifications to the blog (throttled, of course).
Awesome.
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