Archive for November, 2006

That new Apple gadget smell

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I picked up one of the spiffy new iPod shuffles last Friday. This thing is ridiculously small. I’ll probably lose it within a week. It sure is cool, though.
My only real complaint is that it forgoes the hold switch for an on/off switch. If you want to toggle hold mode, you have to press play/pause [...]

GarageBand sucks

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

I recently tried to use GarageBand to create a podcast. What a terrible mess. GB has a huge amount of potential, but when it fails, it fails miserably and utterly. You have to do an insanely complicated dance to get anything close to what you want out of it.
The Setup
I co-host a weekly live streaming [...]