Archive for April, 2005



MacCentral:
Apple’s own retail stores aren’t the only places that will celebrate Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger’s” release on Friday, April 29th. Major computer reseller CompUSA announced Thursday plans to have a Tiger Unleashed event at its stores as well. The festivities run from 6 to 10 PM local time on Friday, April 29th, at CompUSA [...]

C/net Eliot Van Buskirk over at Cnet has an article on podcasting on which he gives you short synopsis of podcasting. Then he goes on to talk about a windows tool for creating podcasts called Propaganda and a new search engine specifically for podcasts at Podscope.

Two women claim they were bilked out of their life savings by an apocalyptic religious group that promised them land and a face-to-face meeting with Jesus Christ.
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What can you say about this wack job besides that this stuff never ceases to amaze me. You feel sorry for the women on one hand, but on [...]

Weather sucks

Man this has been a wet spring, you’d think I live in the Pacific northwest rather than Utah. I just saw the forecast and it’s not getting any better. So much for the drought we’ve been in the last 6 years. So I guess it’s not all bad.

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DirecTV New HD Satellite

Great news if your an DirecTV subscriber, but not so good if you have a Tivo HD unit. I suspect DirecTV will offer some exchange program.
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Posting

The reason I haven’t posted in quite awhile is because ……..

Wired News
Podcasting will soon break out of the “pod” and onto the public airwaves.
The world’s first all-podcast radio station will be launched on May 16 by Infinity Broadcasting, the radio division of Viacom.
Infinity plans to convert San Francisco’s 1550 KYCY, an AM station, to listener-submitted content. The station, previously devoted to a talk-radio format, will [...]

Study: Digital audio to surge

Interesting read, but as with all forecasts one can take it with a grain of salt.
Digital audio formats–from satellite radio to podcasting–are catching the ear of U.S. consumers.
By 2010, more than 20.1 million households will be hooked to satellite radio, up from 4.5 million subscribers at the end of 2004, according to data released by [...]

Depeche Mode Recording New Album

LONDON (Billboard) – Veteran electronic-rock outfit Depeche Mode is in Santa Barbara, Calif., recording the follow-up to 2001’s “Exciter.”
The as-yet-untitled set is due in the fall via Mute internationally and by Reprise/Warner Bros. in North America. It is being co-produced by the band with Ben Hiller (Blur, Elbow, Doves).
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Podcasts catch on with news, marketing and education
It’s must be getting big even Paris Hilton is doing it or does that mean it’s turning to shit.