Tag: electronics
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Applecack
Now frequent readers of this blog will know how much I love Apple, and when Charles II the iPod went wrong a few weeks back (problems with the headphone and docking socket, freezes, havign to keep restoring it) 10 months into the warrant, I wasn’t holding out much hope. The speed of Applecare’s response and…
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grr
Sony DVD-R’s are shit. Bought a large 50-stack of 16 speed ones them and about half have failed, even at 8 or 4 speed, where my usual TDKs are fine. AVOID! That is all…
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Cheap places to get iRiver iFPs (aka Welcome Long John iVer)
Ok as any fule knowz, the biggest podcaster’s friend is (and was) the iRiver iFP series. Why? Well they were cheap, portable, you can record on them via external microphones and do the sort of outside broadcasting/interviews you’ve heard here on Radio Clash and the likes of Bicyclemark, amongst many others. Problem is that apart…
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iSweatshop – Not giving everyone a bite of the Apple?
Got an iPod? You’ve got to check this out: Following the expose of Foxxconn in China, who assemble Apple’s Nanos and iPods, Apple now say they are looking into the claims of sweatshops, workers having to work 15 hour days, and forced overtime. Very embarassing for Apple, who tries so hard to seem like a…
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The Return of Charles
DJ Charles is in the House! The iPod returneth, weird having to create a new directory and dragging everything in and charging it via Firewire, but it’s cool. A sort of generation 2 chunky old-skool cool. Not sure it’s been treat well since John pointed out it was leaking a brown rusty susbtance…err…what has he…
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Pay to Play – your digital rights?
Something that has been bubbling under for a while is the attack on DJs using CD-Rs or laptops to play tracks they either already own but burn onto CD (like I do, burning a set onto CD saves wear on my original CDs and I can burn my mashups to CD as otherwise I couldn’t…