Monthly roundup : September
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Apple TV I briefly owned the previous Apple TV (it didn’t fit my needs at the time) but I love the simplicity of this new one. I’m done with the hassle of downloading media, the pain of codecs and formats and trailing cables from my laptop to my TV. I’ll be buying one of these or the Boxee device very soon.
New iPods The new line up is great, the Shuffle proves Apple knows when they have screwed up and listen to their customers by bringing back buttons. I’m pleased a lot from the iPhone 4 filtered down to the Touch - particularly Facetime, although I feel this needs a desktop client before its truly going to useful. As for the Nano, wow - I’m really looking forward to playing with one.
Working on my first iPad project I’ve had this idea since we first got an iPad at work, but only recently have we had resources available to work on it. Check out the progress at http://theduckpad.tumblr.com/.
New Grinderman album oh boy. Spotify >
Twitter Redesign The new page looks great, I mostly use the iPhone app or Tweetie but I might start visiting twitter.com more often once this rolls out.
Google Instant Search 3.5Billion seconds saved a day - amazing!
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No Innis & Gunn in London?
One of the things I miss most about Edinburgh, I can’t find any bars serving my favourite beer.
Ping
This is so weak I’m unwilling to dedicate many pixels to it, I only hope Apple have plans to drastically improve it soon.
Still no iTunes in the cloud
Its 2010 and iTunes is in its tenth incarnation and still we aren’t storing our media in the cloud? I was really hoping that we’d be seeing a huge leap forwards with iTunes 10 rather than an interface tweak. I want to be able to buy music on my laptop and have it instantly available on my iPhone (without fishing around for a cable), be able to log into my iTunes account and listen to my library at work and generally not to worry about my GBs of media stored on external drives.
I still haven’t got my GetGlue stickers
Where are they, dammit? Don’t know what I’m taking about? Glue is a new kind of social network where you check-in to stuff instead of places and earn real stickers : http://getglue.com/khal_weir
