Tag: Digital audio players
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Rotten Apple employed children at Foxconn
Local and mainland Chinese university students, dressed as the Foxconn workers and the mock Ipad with skeleton print as they try to block the customers at an Apple Premium Reseller shop in Hong Kong Saturday, May 7, 2011.They protest against the Foxconn and Apple for the dire working conditions of workers. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Kin…
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Phoenix release complete multitrack of ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’
1901 and Lisztomania has not left my sets nor has Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix left my iPod since they were released…so the news that the French band Phoenix has released the entire multitracks for the whole album for your remixing pleasure is news to warm my heart (and hopefully yours too)!
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unGenius barred
As badpauly correctly points out, there are serious caveats about the Genius feature in the new iTunes 8 and iPods. Submitting information about your whole library to Apple? Okaaaaaay. Yes Google does that and everyone’s running around like their Large Hardon Collider is on fire. Apple does it with shiny shiny colours and a big…
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Help me, oh iPod-kenobis (and Zune-masters)
OK you techno-g33kz out there can help me – I have been creating video podcasts but having nothing but problems, because although if you follow Apple’s specs for video that will play on an iPod, it still won’t work depending on what software you use (does this sound familiar? And people wonder why I have…
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Zen and the Art of Podcasting
I keep a sort-of eye on my stats, usually to see if TwoRetardsOneCupRickRollMutantPigF**kersFromMars.com is still linking to me – but sometimes it brings good news – like I’m listed on Creative’s ZENCast (which as someone pointed out is not the same as Zune – too many MP3 players with similar names!) which for all the…
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Reasons to hate Apple part 2
I just got this email: Recommendations for Formatting Video Podcasts 1. If you’re encoding your video podcast at 320×240, please increase the resolution to either 640×480 or 640×360 (depending on the aspect ratio of your source files). Why? Because video podcasts at this resolution look great on Apple TV and still port to video iPods.…