iRiver PMC-120 Portable Media Center
Tuesday, January 18th, 2005Cool gadget…? Annoying that it runs Windows, but heck what doesn’t these days.. Just gotta fill her up with open source goodies, podcasts and futurama episodes…
iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife ‘05, iWork
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005CmdrTaco of Slashdot writes “A number of announcements from the Mac World keynote
this afternoon. The iPod Shuffle is pack-of-gum sized, no screen, weighs less than an ounce. Ships today, $99 for the half gig, $149 for
a gig. The Mac Mini is the headless iMac… 6×6x2.5 with all the expected plugs, starting at $499. Lot’s of tiger bits, spotlight, virtual folders in Mail.app. iLife ‘05 will ship Jan 22. iPhoto gets folders and video support. iMovie supports HD. GarageBand gets 8 channel recording. iWork includes Keynote 2, and ‘Pages’ the new word processor and ships the same day as iLife.”
Peercasting Ready for Primetime?
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005More news about p2p broadcasting:
Slashdotter ZephyrXero writes “Have you ever wanted to run your own internet radio or TV station, but thought the bandwidth would cost too much? While Wired
thinks Peer-to-peer broadcasting, or “peercasting”, will be the future of the internet (previously
posted); Peercast.org
says it’s already here today. Peercast’s software is available for Linux,
Windows, and Mac. You can broadcast both audio and video without needing a whole lot of bandwidth since each audience member also uploads back to the network. The Xiph Foundation
is also working on a similar project called “IceShare,”
but it’s still in planning. Peercast,
still in beta seems to already be fully functional and ready for an audience (even you dial-up guys).”
Gadget: Creative Zen
Monday, October 25th, 2004Pretty cool iPod like 5GB portable music player from Creative, it might not be as stylish but I like the FM+FM Recorder feature, plus it comes in ten colours. Go find your favourite Zen micro, or if your needs are greater, you might want a Zen Touch? Or the even smaller ramdisk player MuVo.
Creative.com: Creative Zen Micro
