Ipod Touch / Iphone

[MexicanDragon]

IANAL, but a quick scan of this suggests to me that it is now officially ON, girlfriend, between Apple/iPhone OS and Google/Android.

Apple vs HTC

Heh, I love that the ad I get from Google ads is for the Nexus One.

Back to reading... I saw a couple tweets about it from Topolsky, first chance I've had to read it.

**BRENT**

[n_maher]

Who are the asshats handing out patents when you can patent "unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlocking image"? How fracking generic can you get. Someone should patent the extraction buggers by picking ones nose.

[Salt Peanuts]

Who are the asshats handing out patents when you can patent "unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlocking image"? How fracking generic can you get. Someone should patent the extraction buggers by picking ones nose.

Same folks who handed out patent for a combover.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,022,227.PN.&OS=PN/4,022,227&RS=PN/4,022,227

[Hopstretch]

The patent system is a mess. That's why everyone in the tech arena now just files for everything and then uses their respective ludicrous patent portfolios as shields or (as in this case) clubs against each other.

[Hopstretch]

And it's getting ugly out there on the Internet. The armed fanboy camps are assembling on both sides.

[morphsci]

[blessingx]

[mypasswordis]

Hey, it's kind of like this, but more tone deaf and not as good:

[thrice]

sweet.

[blessingx]

For helping with future posts...

Edited March 6, 2010 by blessingx

[episiarch]

I'm enjoying Hipstamatic, a very fun camera app for those of us old enough to be nostalgic for bad lenses and worse film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IacLpVeOs9c&NR=1

(Disappointed that all the simulated flashes are electronic, though. Looking at the pictures I could almost smell the sizzle of a just-fired Magicube.)

[Smeggy]

I'm bummed, my ipod touch popped it's left channel Saturday

[Hopstretch]

My name is Stretch and I, too, am an iPhone addict. Apparently.

iPhone can be addicting, says new survey

Although, "In fact, 75 percent admitted to falling asleep with the iPhone in bed with them" is a bit of a shocker. Respect, Stanford geeks.

[blessingx]

What percent woke to the iPhone hitting their forehead as their arm relaxed? I'm in that camp.

[Smeggy]

Pervs.

[Hopstretch]

Holy crap those are some speedy thumbs!

[Hopstretch]

Also, this sucks.

Simplify Media: An Important Announcement

[Salt Peanuts]

Also, this sucks.

Simplify Media: An Important Announcement

Frick.

[tyrion]

I like Simplify Media but it doesn't appear that those I have shared with have been using it as much or maybe it's just me. I received an email from Rhapsody that they will be adding a feature allowing you to take music with you without need for a 3G or wifi connection to listen. They are submitting soon to Apple. Hopefully, it will be approved.

[HeadphoneAddict]

I don't know what all the features of Simplify Media was/are, but it sounds like a few of you liked it. I've been using DOTTUNES and I can listen to my entire iTunes library from anywhere with a 3G or Wifi connection with my iPhone or Macbook. You should check it out. The only problem is that it doesn't let you share videos or photos, just your music playlists. You can give people a user name and PW, or set up a guest account, and you can set which playlists certain people have access to.

It uses your home internet bandwidth to serve the music, and people can access it by trying to visit your external IP address from the web. If you don't want to have to worry about remembering and logging into your external IP address and want an easy to remember domain name, then you can get someone like no-ip.com to issue you a domain name that links to your home IP address. You also can run an app that no-ip.com supplies on the home computer that updates your external IP with no-ip.com if it changes, so you can still get into your home computer.

[blessingx]

Below linked from Daring Fireball. Cool, simple iPhone/touch stand. Case considerations of course.

MoviePeg

[episiarch]

Less minimal, and currently out of stock, but a useful-looking stand: MovieWedge

[blessingx]

I am T-Pain taken a bit further...

[deepak]

Is anyone using ipeng to control their Squeezebox/Transporter/Duet? The last posts on this program are from 2008.

[morphsci]

I still use it some, but it has become somewhat redundant now that I have two controllers. It should get new life when the ipad arrives.