January 9th, 2007 is going to be here before you know it. At 9am Pacific time, Steve Jobs will deliver the Macworld Keynote, and if next year is anything like the last few years, it’s sure to be full of big announcements, and maybe even a few surprises. While it’s still early to speculate…let’s face…
You might have heard about this little show called Jericho. If you haven’t let me give you an idea of what happened. The show got cancelled. Fans got angry. Fans sent thousands of canned nuts to CBS. CBS uncancelled the show. This week my buddy Drew over at TV Jab reminded me and everyone else…
A new feature is rolling out in iTunes tonight: 90 second previews for songs. The extended previews are only available on songs longer than 2 minutes and 30 seconds — anything shorter and only 30 second previews will be available. Will the extended previews make it easier for you to buy music from the iTunes…
After a week of rumors about Paul McCartney’s next album being available online, we find out that it’s not only going to be online, but an iTunes exclusive, at least for a little while. The new album, “Memory Almost Full” (anyone else thing it’s kinda funny that the album title is a computer reference?) features…
Well, the iPod game market just got a whole lot more interesting. Today, Apple released an Official iPod game based on the TV series LOST. The game was created by Gameloft, a popular mobile gaming developer, and is based on a storyline created by the writers of the television show. In the game you play…
Something terrible is happening in Darfur. We don’t hear a lot about it, and it isn’t something most of us think about everyday, but it is happening. While we’re sitting here at our computers awaiting the iPhone, Leopard, and that widescreen iPod (that ain’t coming, btw…not right now anyway) to be released…people in Darfur are…
You know, this is always a slow time of year for the Apple online community. We’re in the place between Macworld and WWDC…in alot of ways it’s like the eye of the Apple yearly hurricane. So when something happens that might remotely be interesting to talk about, the Apple community (and the tech community in…
Last week, Sony began experimenting with using iTunes to deliver content by adding shows like “Spider-man”, “News Radio”, “Till Death”, and more to the iTunes Store. These are hardly the cream of the Sony crop, but a nice starting point to try out the Apple helmed distribution method. I hope, if this is successful for…
If you’re a podcaster, or thinking about becoming a podcaster, Apple has issued a series of tips for improving performance of podcasts on Apple TV. If you’ve used the AppleTV for watching podcasts its clear that some shows load more efficiently than others, but I hope that, over time, a standard is developed that produces…
NBC issued a statement to the press responding to Apple’s Press Release on Friday. “We never asked to double the wholesale price for our TV shows. In fact, our negotiations were centered on our request for flexibility in wholesale pricing, including the ability to package shows together in ways that could make our content even…
Apple Music’s release was anticipated by Apple fans, especially those who have been using Spotify and wanted a better experience. However, the reception of Apple’s streaming service has not received the big applause that the company was in all likelihood was expecting. 9to5Mac recently held a poll asking readers if Apple Music should be labeled…
If you’ve watched the Keynote on Apple.com you know it’s streaming, and it’s small. It short, it sucks watching it in streaming Quicktime. Well, fret no more folks, because the Keynote is coming to iTunes. I say coming because it hasn’t been made available for download yet…although you can subscribe to the podcast by clicking…
