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- BBC Announces Mac Compatibility for Digital Archive
You might recall that we raised something of a ruckus in these parts about the BBC's plans to open up its full archive online -- and not let Macs in on the game. There was a petition and hand-wringing, and,...
You might recall that we raised something of a ruckus in these parts about the BBC's plans to open up its full archive online -- and not let Macs in on the game. There was a petition and hand-wringing, and, yes, even overt weeping. But it paid off. Yesterday, the BBC announced its iPlayer will be re-engineered to work with Macs. This was all reported by...the BBC.
The BBC's plans for the iPlayer were put on hold earlier this year after its regulators, the BBC Trust, asked the corporation to look at whether the iPlayer should be platform agnostic.
Mr Highfield said Apple's "proprietary and closed framework for digital rights management gives us headaches," but, "it is one of our top priorities to re-engineer our proposed BBC iPlayer service to work on Macs".Unfortunately, you still need to live in the UK to use the service. And the Windows version will still be first. But you win some, you lose some.
(Image comes from the BBC's glorious "Look Around You" series. This was from the Your Vision of 2000 segment. This gem is the iTrak: "I believe that in the year 2000 people will want to carry their music collection everywhere they go, and the i-Trak is the answer. An 8 Track cassette player that runs off a large square blue 9V torch battery (enough for 30 minutes of continuous playback) with leather carry strap, making this unit truly portable." Bless.)
BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC to open up archive for trial
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Pete Mortensen - Interview With Will Friedland, Owner of Largest iTunes Library
I have a pretty big music collection -- I can't come close to fitting even all of my favorite tracks onto my creaky 15GB iPod -- but I have nothing on New York Sun staffer Will Friedland, who allegedly has...
I have a pretty big music collection -- I can't come close to fitting even all of my favorite tracks onto my creaky 15GB iPod -- but I have nothing on New York Sun staffer Will Friedland, who allegedly has the largest iTunes library in the world: 172,150 tracks, taking up 849 gigs and 809.2 days of music. Glenn Wolsey has a fun interview with Will. Obsession is a beautiful thing, sometimes.
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Pete Mortensen - What The? DLO Creates iPod Case That's Different!
It takes a lot to surprise me in the iPod accessory market these days. The new DLO Jam Jacket managed it. Amid a sea of seriously generic cases, the company came up with a good way to manage the headphone...
It takes a lot to surprise me in the iPod accessory market these days. The new DLO Jam Jacket managed it. Amid a sea of seriously generic cases, the company came up with a good way to manage the headphone cord of standard iPod headsets. And it's not ugly! That alone puts it ahead of 70 percent of iPod cases.
On the downside it, appears to only work with 30GB models, not the full 80. But it's only $20, so it would be hard to go wrong at the price, anyway.
DLO | Jam Jacket with Cord Management
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Pete Mortensen - Blogger Hysteria: Virginia Tech Killer a Mac User?
Yep, you knew it was going to happen. News about Monday's Virginia Tech shooting has officially leaked into every other domain. How do I know? Well, the blogger at Habla Mierda has begun speculation that killer Cho Seung-Hui... might be...Yep, you knew it was going to happen. News about Monday's Virginia Tech shooting has officially leaked into every other domain. How do I know? Well, the blogger at Habla Mierda has begun speculation that killer Cho Seung-Hui... might be a Mac user:
I was reading the article and found this line pretty interesting.
Among the materials are 23 QuickTime video files showing Cho talking directly to the camera, Capus said. He does not name anyone specifically, but he talks at length about religion and his hatred of the wealthy.
Quicktime Video? Talking directly to camera?
Let's check Apple's site real quick.
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I don't even know what to make of this. The guy over at Mierda is pretty juvenile about all this -- he wouldn't throw ethnic terms around casually otherwise -- but I don't think he's suggesting Mac use as playing a role in Cho's attack. Give it a rest, everyone. Sometimes, people just do horrible things, and we can't blame an external forces. A few dozen people are dead right now not because of gun control (or lack of it), video games, terrorism, video games, illegal immigration, conservatism or liberalism. They lost their lives because one very mentally ill individual chose to do something incredibly destructive.
Habla Mierda. VT Killer probably a Mac User
Via Digg.
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