Apple – AirPort Express: I think I’ll be getting one of these when it hits the stores. I’ve been looking for a nice simple way of getting some of the music on my computer(s) out through my stereo.
Category: Apple
iPod
A nice article about the iPod from the NY Times Magazine: The Guts of a New Machine
The iTunes Music Store
Apple’s New Online Music Service
“Now Mr. Jobs and his team have taken another dysfunctional, user-hostile product and bashed the ugliness out of it: the downloadable-music service.”
Apple
I decided to check out Apple’s new music service today. Looks pretty good. Just for yuks, I bought a song — “Glad and Sorry” by the Faces. I was hoping I could find the cover by Golden Smog, but no luck. Also no luck finding “I Can’t Stop Loving You” by Ray Charles, which has been stuck in my head ever since I saw Metropolis.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year!
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I got a chance to see Adaptation and Nicholas Nickleby this weekend. Both were definitely worth seeing.
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So what’s going on at Macworld right now? Boy it’d be nice to be in San Francisco right now.
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I give up on the Giants. Hey, the NFL admitted that there was an officiating screw-up on the last play, though. Can we just play the game over next week? Can we? Huh?
new iPod
I just listed my old MP3 player on eBay, since I ordered an iPod last night. I’m getting a refurbished 5GB unit for $200. (I couldn’t quite talk myself into a new 20GB unit.) Looks like the Apple Store already sold out.
printing
Hey! I got my iBook to print to my desktop printer, attached to my Win XP machine! Okay, maybe that doesn’t sound impressive, but it’s something I’ve wanted to be able to do since I had the PowerBook 1400, and I’ve never been able to do it until now. Relevant links:
Gimp-Print — for PC printer drivers
Mac OS X Hints — search for “SMB”, “printing”, or something similar.
Essentially, you need to enable SMB printing, install relevant printer drivers, then add your printer, using the arcane syntax “smb://user:pass@workgroup/server/sharename”.
blogging from the iBook
Just for yuks, I’m blogging from Mozilla on my iBook. The Blogger interface actually looks OK, although it doesn’t have some of the functionality it has under IE on Windows.
new iBook
The iBook showed up this week, too. It’s great. OS X is much better than OS 9. It looks great, too. DVD playback is nice. The sound quality is good, if you use good headphones. Lots of stuff to explore… I haven’t really even looked at the underlying BSD stuff yet.
new iBook
I broke down and ordered a new iBook tonight, from PowerMax. 800 MHz, 12.1″ screen, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB HD. And, surprisingly enough, they’re giving me $475 for the old iBook. I didn’t quite talk myself into getting the 20 GB iPod though.