June 25th, 2004
Coolest Bluetooth Headset Yet
More of a Handset than a Headset - very cool, retro handmade kit Sold on EBay.
It was made by: Pokia.com.
Archive for June, 2004
June 24th, 2004
iChat at 35,000 ft.
Wow - that’s cool. Bet it was ultra-laggy.
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June 21st, 2004
Euro2004 Software
A bit late - but better late than never:
Two apps to help you track your team’s progress:
 GoalWatcher |
 Euro2004X |
Also two great pages from the Beeb:
Shockwave Virtual Replay
and
Score Predictor - which is not really a predictor - but shows you the effects of the 1st round matches. (put results into games that have not happened yet and see what happens to the group tables.)
June 19th, 2004
Quickly, pour fuel in my Ear!
Christian Lindholm gives us a brief glimpse of what kind of tech we’ll be seeing in the future:
Very, very interesting, but it raises two questions -
1 - How hot would it get?
Where do the exhaust gasses go?
2 - Do we really want to burn more hydrocarbons?
Of course the electricity that we currently use to charge our electronics is often generated by hydrocarbons (and in the UK we’re not building any more nuclear plants - mainly gas-fired) - but their scale means that they are much more efficient than this new tech (I assume.)
Maybe they run on Bio-fuels, who knows…
While we’re on the subject of charging - SplashPower sounds very interesting.
[update]
InfoSync has another article on FuelCells in mobile devices - It seems that Methanol is the fuel.
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June 15th, 2004
For You Sir, 79p
MacWorld UK iTunes announcement coverage.
“every song in the store costs 79 pence, and albums cost £7.99″
Nice! I expected 99p / £9.99
[update] - I’ve been looking around the store and am rather disappointed by the selection so far - here’s a list of artists I went looking for and couldn’t find:
Squarepusher, Underworld, Ash (2 tracks), Oasis, Orbital, Adam Freeland, Basement Jaxx (1 remix), Elbow, Lemon Jelly, The Prodigy (only One single), Unkle.
Of course, that’s only my personal tastes - but other UK people on the MacNN Fora appear to be finding the same lack of artists.
Ho hum….. I can only hope that like the US store it will expand over the coming years - and more labels will get involved.
[update2] -
I’ve made my first iMix.
There are a lot of artists listed in the store that have no tracks up - this maybe because of a breakdown in negotiation with AIM. I hope that gets sorted soon.
June 12th, 2004
Calling all SMTP Gurus!
Any SMTP gurus out there?
I’ve got a very odd conundrum -
I use Vodafone for my GSM provider - who allow you access your phone’s MailBox via Mail (i.e. you get a mail account into which your voicemail goes, and you can SMS via outbound email - at 10p a go.)
The odd thing is that I cannot send out via their SMTP Server - or rather I cannot authenticate to it via my Mail client.
Mac OS X Mail.app and Entourage 2004 refuse to allow the Authentication Protocol that the server uses (AUTH LOGIN).
But strangely, Entourage X (the old version) can authenticate to it (and I can authenticate by hand via telnet.)
Here is a transcript:
Widebook:~ diggory$ telnet smtp.vodafone.net smtp
Trying 212.183.156.228…
Connected to www.vodafone.net.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
220 Smtp Filter ESMTP Server ready
EHLO Localhost
250-Smtp Filter Hello
250 AUTH=LOGIN
AUTH LOGIN
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
RGlnZ29yeQ==
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
(Encoded Password Removed)
235 Authentication successfull
Does anyone out there have any idea why the Client apps are throwing a fit over this?
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June 9th, 2004
New Apple Hardware
New G5s are out - all dual proc.s up to dual 2.5GHz.
mmmm, liquid cooling…
Airport Express is not a train to Gatwick, but a mini Airport Extreme extender and allows a quick wireless hook-up between iTunes and ordinary audio hardware.
Interesting combination of features - but I personally would want some way of controlling the music and having a display showing the music meta-data - like the Slim SqueezeBox.
As for little wifi boxes this is a lot cheaper (but not 802.11g and it doesn’t have that Apple well-designed-ness. )
In other news
Unusually, Using mobile while driving saves one man’s life.
RSS feeds from Ofcom - for UK übergeeks.
BT is testing getting rid of the switched network, and going all IP.
