Before I start on this, I’d like to acknowledge that my iBook G3 has reached its limit … streaming music from an AirPort, reading RSS Feeds on Safari, and posting this blog entry, all while checking my mail in the background and instlaling new widgets. Let the record show that G3 is far from defeated! (And right now, it’s looks real good considering it’s the highest native processor an Intel can transcode!)
Anyways, here’s some Engadget goodness for your perusal:
* Our man Ken Kurtagi at Sony is saying that the hard drive? Well, it’ll be an add-on device (bastards!) … why? Cause they can’t determine how big the hard drive should be. Guess our pocket books get to decide this one! Read up at http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000833046205/
* Hope you save your freeware downloads … I don’t, but it may not be too late! A great little program called DVD Decrypter bit the dust because, go figure, some unnamed movie company didn’t like how easy it made decoding DVD’s. There’s a great story posted about it at http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000053046210/ and it talks a lot about how these programs end up in the “Bermuda Triangle” of software. FYI, I’m advising getting your copy of RatDVD and DVD Shrink, these offer good fair use purposes too, but you know they’re on the hit list.
* Ok, no props to these guys, I programmed by calculator a long time ago to include a periodic table, and all the tools I’d need to handle any class in school … and back in 1997, they didn’t care! Check this out at http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000137046163/ and also … can anyone find me a TI-85? I want to reinstall my programs on one, you know, for old time’s sake!
Tomorrow, I talk about why I think the iPod will succeed as the PMP of choice, much like how the iPod Shuffle is the best flash player going now … not cause it’s best, but because it has “cool”!
