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.. Read More
Super NES on my Macbook Mini
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.. Read More
WordPress Prowl notification
I just added Prowl Notifications to the blog (throttled, of course). Awesome.
Dropbox beta adds LAN sync!
If you don’t know about dropbox yet, then go here and get a free (2GB) account. Then, after you’ve got it set up and know a few things about it, get the beta here; it supports LAN syncing, which is what I’ve been after for a LONG, long time. At one point, I had three people and 5 machines all trying to download the same 10 files that someone posted.. Read More
New Audio Controls
I was really pleased to find a few controls added to the audiobook (and podcast!) iPod controls in last night’s iPhone 3.0 update. The small “30” with the arrow moving in a circle takes you back 30 seconds; quite handy when you’ve missed something that was just said. The “2x” is a speed toggle; clicking it multiple times will change between double, normal and half speed. Prior to this, you.. Read More