Sony, please take a time out

New post at Arrogantics!

Sony, please take a time out
Why does sony always come out with useless eye candy?  What can they do to change this?

Convenience or investment?

New tech post at Arrogantics!

Convenience or investment?
What would you choose:  the convenience of a subscription service, or the investment of purchased music?

Google answer session 10/20/06

Yup, another google answer session!

pioneer ipod controller sucks
Well, I wouldn’t say it sucks, but you do have a point that it could be better.

“you got me”
Boo!!!!!!

how to take off a ipod faceplate
My dear, iPods do not have faceplates, they have….the thing that is the front of the player. Your search should have been “how to open ipod” and the answer would be “guitar pick”, or at least back in the day it was. The mini (and I guess the new nanos) are a bit sketchy to open…so ya. Either way, iPods do not have faceplates. *ahem* IPODS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!!!!111!!

send photo cingular cripple motorola
You might assume that cingular crippled moto phones for this feature, but nay, it is simply a bit cracked out to figure out how to do. Reference your manual, you basically have to use the ‘copy’ function.

iPod Integration for Volkswagen jetta
AVOID!!! It’s all about the aftermarket baby.

Review of the past few weeks

I haven’t written for a while due to school, netflix, tivo, and reptile conventions.  However, this does not mean that I have been neglecting my blogs.  I’ve kept up, of a fashion, but just haven’t quite felt as if anything that interesting has happened to require a post.

Okay, okay, the new ipod nano, I got it.

To recap the last few weeks:

Apple’s going to kick ass no matter what.
There’s a new nano, I hate it less, but at least no one can sue due to the lack of shinyness.  The only exception: 8GB in a few mm?  Props.
Sandisk is going to own like whoa at second place.
Creative is going to fall, although I don’t see how they could get any worse at this point.
Samsung…well…you still suck.
Dell and HP are whores, but we knew this long ago.
The PS3 will be expensive, but what isn’t?
Grandmothers across the country will be confused as to their grandchildrens’ requests to urinate for Christmas.
OMG of the thousands they’ve sold your laptop is defective?  Ya, welcome to technology, get over it.
If you own a laptop, you might want to donate some sperm because your laptop will most likely fry your manhood.
Speaking of which, of all the reports of blowing up batteries, how come everyone’s lucked out and not received fried genitalia?
If myspace was a bar, you’d….well, insert something vulgar about molasses.
Facebook is becoming big brother, again, we knew this long ago.
OMG people can readz your infoz onlinez!!!  Excuse me, but may I slap you upside the head for not understanding that which is reality?  Get over it.
Zune dropped like a bomb because it sucked, not that Apple somehow has the hand of death up its ass.  It sucked.  Get over it.

More updates soon, I promise!

Ok Creative, you got me

http://sg.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/releases/welcome.asp?pid=12591

I had previously questioned the existence of Creative’s balls.  Well, today they finally answered.

60GB? Check.
Video formats for the common man? Check.
Memory card reader? Check.
Widescreen? Check.
Radio/Music store compatibility? Check.
Pretty?  Check.
Price to make sure you look at their other models first?  Check.

Damn.  If I were in the market right now, I’d run over my 5G60GB and buy the hell out of this player.  Seriously.  I’m known for hating Creative players, but so far it looks like they got this one right.  Now, lesse where that price ends up for black friday.  So far I’m not seeing this as an ipod killer, being as the price takes many out of the game, but def as a Zune killer.  Well, it’s shaping up that anything could be a Zune killer.

Apple: kiss your ass goodbye cause SanDisk’s got ya

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/08/21/afx2961842.html

An 8gb player for $250? No, this isn’t even part of their cheap-ass M series, this is a full out E series with video/radio/recording/etc.  Meanwhile, where the hell is Creative in this?  A year ago they were gung-ho to take Apple down and SanDisk was just the player you got because you couldn’t afford anything else.  Creative hasn’t really moved anything new, but SanDisk has really started to put the heat on by actually making players decent enough that not even I can sell the ipod over them.

Apple, my friend, if you ignore this you will lose this battle. I’m glad to see this competition finally start to take off. Your move Apple.

Movies for purchase in itunes…and then?

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/lions-gate-ceo-confirms-itunes-movie-downloads/

Movies on iTunes, I was so totally right last year.

Oh come on, you knew they had to do it. Just as there are apparently people who will spend $2 on music videos, I’m sure there are people willing to shell out the big bucks for renting movies on their ipods.

Every week we hear about new contracts for TV shows to be made available for purchase in the iTunes music store, and every time I flip open a magazine I see an ad telling me to download a new show’s pilot episode for free from iTunes. It will be interesting to see their method of DRM as well as their price point for the movies, but my general reaction to this is “Why took you so long?”.

To quote an old drive thru lady: …and then?

Wireless age my butt

So I’m moving in two days, and I always pack up my comptuer stuff first so as nothing gets lost.  My last few moves I had a whole bunch of random boxes of computer stuff but as I moved I found that the boxes migrated around thus causing much chaos and chord loss.

This time I just got one long tub thing that’s meant for rolling under a bed frame or such.  Pretty much everything fit in around my monitor.  Yay!  Don’t worry, the 2405fpw is in there upside down on top of a very squishy towel. 

Google searches roundup

WordPress tells me what google searches link here, and so far here are my favorites…

stupid cheap lcd monitors
very expensive car audio
sim cards what breaks them
can you exchange sim cards in a verizon (this one made me giggle)
cingular verizon sim cards
missing testicle (this linked to my post about sony missing a testicle because they were opening up formats)

Ahh…I should make this a tuesday tradition.

Dear Apple, please impress me

I have rarely been impressed by a new product release.  Either the product has so many quirks I want to burn it, or it works as expected but there’s nothing I’m particularly gaga about.

The ideas behind Apple products make me stalk the rumor sites at first, but by the time the products make it to stores the quirks have bobbed up to the surface and ruined any excitement left after the price tag. 

Why can’t a company make a product that doesn’t have errors/quirks in it?  Don’t companies test these things out on random people to find out if they will work right without knowing all the little tricks so you don’t want to stomp on it?

What has been the biggest disappointment for you?  For me, it was the nano.  The idea of it just wasn’t executed correctly.