Author: Jeff Morgan (Page 20 of 168)

      MOG is driving me crazy

      September 15, 2010 /

      MOG for the iPhone.About a month and a hlaf ago I decided it was time to give a streaming music service a shot. Rdio had just launched with a nifty little free trial so I jumped in there right away, but the selection was severely limited. I went to MOG, which started out okay, until I realized just how much better the Rdio service is.

      For starters, Rdio has a vastly superior interface. Every god damn time I open MOG I have to sign in, which is bad enough, but then I can’t just open the player from that sign in page. Yes, I can point my browser to the player location, but I do not want to. I also do not want another browser window open. Seriously, what decade is this? For all the goodness that MOG brings – a nice library, good quality, sturdy streaming, the ability to download and play stuff later – they are way behind the times with regard to design.

      The saddest part, much like the current TV streaming, is that MOG just might be the best around. From what I’ve seen of the other services, they’re just as bad, maybe worse, and that just isn’t going to cut it for a service I will use every single day.

      Digital Media, Music, Websites

      USB 3.0 is here, but to stay?

      September 14, 2010 /

      USB-3.0The title of this post is a little misleading. USB 3.0 has been out for a while, there just haven’t been many peripherals to support it. Several firms finally released USB 3.0 products today, and though they are certainly cool, certainly fast, I certainly won’t be buying any of them.

      Why? That’s my question, actually. Why would I? There is precious little I need to drop onto a thumbdrive these days. Even the raid arrays that launched today are fairly unappealing. My main storage device is attached to my router, and I do nearly all of my backups over the air, which USB 3.0 isn’t going to improve. Documents? Pictures? I have Google, Flickr, Facebook, insert-cloud-storage-of-choice. The days of carrying around the few things I really need on a thumbdrive are long gone, replaced by the convenience and security of offsite backups in duplicate or triplicate.

      Don’t get me wrong, USB 3.0 will be around and become increasingly prevalent over the next several years, but my guess is the general public will hardly notice. The one thing consumers understand about the new transfer technology is price, and it’s a price that’s hard to justify when it only gives you faster transfer rates on hardware connected devices.

      Kingston’s new 16GB thumbdrive is $89. The 64GB, a whopping $270. A USB 2.0 64GB stick can be had for half that price, and when the holidays roll around, likely a fifth. I can think of precious few consumer applications that would require the 60Mbps write speed that USB 3.0 will provide. So few, in fact, that I couldn’t even name one.

      accessories, Computers, News, Storage

      The truth behind the new iPod Nano/Shuffle

      September 13, 2010 /

      iPod Nano cut. I love Reddit, especially for things like this. This image shows the real truth behind the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle. Was it years of careful industrial design an planning? Nope. It was the scissors tool in Photoshop.

      If you take a look at the two new music players it gets harder and harder to deny that it just looks like the old iPod Nano has been cut in half, leaving behind a screen (which is now touch sensitive) and a control scheme (welcome back, hardware controls – glad you’re off those headphones).

      As good as Reddit is for these little gems, the discussion can be a bit polarized. Continue through those comments at your own risk.

      Apple, Music

      Say goodbye to free iPhone 4 cases

      September 12, 2010 /

      iPhone 4 bumper.Apple’s realized something I’ve suspected all along – the iPhone 4 antenna issue isn’t as widespread as everyone thought. I know I’m a bit of an Apple fanboy, so no one listened to me, but I hadn’t met a single person with the problem, and as loud as the complaints were, it would have been a complete shitstorm if it was actually the huge epidemic people wanted you to believe it was. That’s not to say it didn’t happen, or that it wasn’t a big problem – it is, especially for such an expensive device that is the cornerstone of communication in most of our lives today – it just wasn’t every single phone.

      Unfortunately, this means Apple is ending the free iPhone 4 program. After September 30th, you’ll only be able to get a free case if you do a bit of complaining.

      We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even smaller than we originally thought. A small percentage of iPhone 4 users need a case, and we want to continue providing them a Bumper case for free. For everyone else, we are discontinuing the free case program on all iPhone 4s sold after September 30, 2010. We are also returning to our normal returns policy for all iPhone 4s sold after September 30. Users experiencing antenna issues should call AppleCare to request a free Bumper case.

      There you have it, folks. This seems like the solution Apple should have offered the second there was talk of an issue. There was no reason to give them to everyone, other than to fix the screw up that was waiting 3 months to do anything about the people having problems.

      Apple, iPhone, Mobile, News

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