September 11th, 2006 | by Simon | published in Apple, Film / TV, Web/Tech, iTunes
A lot of people in the UK are already downloading TV shows over the Internet - usually using BitTorrent, which can be a bit complicated if you’re a novice. Peekvid is yet another, very simple way to watch well-known TV shows online - it simply links to TV shows which have already been uploaded on [...]
August 2nd, 2006 | by Simon | published in Apple, Food and Drink, Music, iTunes
After the demise of the Mycokemusic site, Coke has decided to pair up with iTunes and is apparently getting ready to give away free tracks in the UK and some other European countries. Great! In fact according to Fox News, they’re going to give away a total of 70 million tracks in the UK alone.
The [...]
July 16th, 2006 | by Simon | published in Apple, Music, Technology
I wrote a while ago about how ridiculous it was that you can’t use iTrips and the like legally in the UK. Basically they are a FM transmitter that you plug in to your iPod. You can then listen to your iPod through any radio once you’ve tuned it into the same frequency.
My mate Rob [...]
May 23rd, 2006 | by Simon | published in Apple, Internet, Mac, Technology, Web/Tech, iTunes
In what I think is a pretty interesting link, Apple and Nike today announced that they’re lanching a new ‘sports kit‘ for the iPod nano. Basically, it means putting a little sensor in your Nike+ shoe which then talks to a receiver attached to your iPod nano. The sensor then transmits data about your run [...]
May 18th, 2006 | by Simon | published in Apple, Mac, Music, Technology
I had an iTrip for my old iPod, which wasn’t compatible with my new one, and I used it quite a bit whenever I was on a long drive for work. It’s basically a wireless transmitter which plugs into your iPod and transmits music to an FM frequency you set on a radio - be [...]
April 16th, 2006 | by Simon | published in Apple, Mac, Web/Tech, iTunes
So once I’d got Airtunes all sorted out (see previous post), I started fiddling around with iTunes, and decided to look for a new and more interesting visualizer. Visualizers are the changing patterns that you can switch on to play on the screen whilst music is playing (Windows Media Player has them too).
Anyway, I found [...]
March 24th, 2006 | by Simon | published in Apple, Technology
I haven’t been posting much of late, and it’s all been quite boring. My excuse is that my Mac has died - the hard disk decided to stop working about three weeks ago, so I’ve only been posting when I have a spare minute at work, which isn’t often of late, with all the commissioning [...]
January 28th, 2006 | by Simon | published in Apple, Belfast, Friends
Well, I’m another year older! (And apologies for the lack of posts recently - I’m about to make up for that!)
So it was back to Belfast for my birthday. I had a night out with a couple of people on the Friday night when we went to Bar Bacca, and then Irene & Nan’s. Then [...]
November 9th, 2005 | by Simon | published in Apple, Music, Shopping, Technology
Well after work tonight, I headed into Regent Street to the Apple Store, to see if I could grab a look at the new generation video iPod (or iPod with video) depending on how you look at it.
I was trying to work out whether I should ask for one for my Christmas or just wait [...]
October 29th, 2005 | by Simon | published in Apple, Technology
Well now I’m back in Belfast, and have a PC at home, I’ve downloaded the BBC’s iMP program, as I’m part of the trial.
Basically, the iMP (above) lets you download any BBC programme from the last seven days and watch it on your PC. If you have a certain mobile device as well, you can [...]
