Archive for October, 2005

Shows I’m going to

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Oct. 19th - Voltaire @ The Vogue
Oct. 20th - Oktober-Noiz-Fest, with E-Craft, Terrorfakt, and Cervello Elettronico @ The Vogue
Oct. 21st - Bauhaus @ The Paramount
Nov. 4th - Front 242
Nov. 7th - They Might Be Giants @ The Moore
Nov. 16th - Depeche Mode @ Key Arena
Nov. 21st - Children of Bodom @ El Corazon

Still more Apple video

Friday, October 14th, 2005

The latest I, Cringely has this interesting little morsel:
There’s an outfit called DVDstation that puts video distribution kiosks in stores and malls. As its name implies, you go to the DVDstation to pick out a movie and burn it on a DVD right there. Well, DVDstation just announced that you can plug your video-enabled iPod [...]

Apple video thoughts

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

This guy takes a look at the video available from iTMS.
At regular size and even in the little window embedded in iTunes, it looks crystal clear, with no noticeable or distracting artifacts even in fast moving scenes with lots of action. At double normal size, you will start seeing a few artifacts, comparable to the [...]

Video iPod

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Well, I was wrong - Apple announced the long-awaited video iPod. I ordered a black 30gb today, and it should be here soon. I’m glad I waited instead of buying the iPod Nano. I will report back when I have it in hand.
Questions which remain unanswered:

Will it play DivX/XviD files as-is, or will they have [...]

Every email client sucks

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

I have come to the realization that every single email client ever made sucks. Hard.