Random Tech Stuff for the geek in you

Ohhhhhhhh!

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/JbZ2s0JFhps/

A source with inside knowledge of the situation claims Apple will
release an iPod Touch with microphone and camera in two to three
months. The implications for voice-over-IP could be staggering
(especially for telephony providers).

AM is still alive in some places!

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2009/07/15/whse-cbc-tower.html?ref=rss

The CBC’s top official in the North says the Yukon government’s move to extend the CBC’s lease for its AM transmitter in Whitehorse does not necessarily mean the broadcaster will scrap plans to switch from AM to FM.

Might be: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/KMdrWTboCYY/ideas-we-like-ipods-with-cameras

Usually new iPods come out around September!

You can now rewind by 30sec increment and speed playback up. Cool for talk only podcast, you could go trough a 60min in 30 min! And it’s very listenable, it’s time compression so voices don’t end all like Mickey mouse.

More later! As i discover new features.

Sad. I was using this for so long. Was still synching my T3 with it every day, just in case the iPod touch would fail. Will miss it.

http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=04fde89097a0dd086b9ab5c3e6610601

AvantGo , a popular offline browser for PDAs and smartphones, will cease to exist as of the end of June. Sybase, AvantGo’s parent company, has announced that it will close down the service at the end of the month. AvantGo has been around since the days of the first Palm Pilot’s. The service provided mobile formatted online content channels with an offline browser and desktop synchronization client. It started out as a Palm OS service and was also ported to Windows Mobile PDAs and Symbian Phones. PalmInfocenter published a review of AvantGo v3.3 way back in April 2000.

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4963

In a first-of-its-kind deal, Universal and Virgin Media have agreed on a U.K. plan that makes Universal’s entire catalogue available – DRM-free – for a monthly subscription price, while Virgin will take a more active role in identifying unauthorized downloading of the label’s music, The New York Times reports. …