Ding Dong DRM is dead

Posted on Wed 07 January 2009 in geek

Well it took long enough to get there but finally iTunes is bowing to the inevitable. Of course I'm not the world biggest Apple fan so I don't see this as altruism on their part. When their market share is threatened they will act to maintain it and iTunes still …


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Finally

Posted on Sat 03 January 2009 in geek

One of the games we got for the PS3 was the wonderfully cute physics platformer Little Big Planet. It could prove to be a very funky distraction. One of the things it does have is some very cute music. Previously if you were looking for individual tracks your options were …


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Codec Fixing

Posted on Fri 02 January 2009 in geek • Tagged with development, rockbox

Rockbox happily made it through the New Years Eve gathering without frustrating anyone with its occasional rough edges. However I am having problems with .m4a files (unlocked iTunes files) causing Rockbox to throw a strop. Unfortunately debugging is made harder by the inability to attach the very much copyrighted tracks …


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Start of a Journey

Posted on Wed 31 December 2008 in geek

Fliss has always known I'm a bit of a Star Trek fan and on the run up to Christmas was probing me as to which series I thought was the best. The subtle questioning resulted in a present of season one of DS9 for Christmas (FWIW she got a Family …


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I have found what I'm looking for

Posted on Mon 29 December 2008 in geek • Tagged with nc10, netbook

Unlike U2's abortive attempts I have found the netbook I'm looking for. I went into town to play with it after my Dad pointed out the review in PCW. Sure I was wanting to go for an SSD based machine but who can argue with the battery life even if …


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