Apple Video iPod (Speculatively) Demystified
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Apple Pleasure: iPod Mini Demystified
Apple Pleasure: iPod Mini Demystified
08/10/2004 09:19 PMAple's iPod mini is a deliciously cruel device. Like a chocolate cake
when you're on a diet. It's possibly the most beautiful piece of
digital audio hardware currently in existence -- but it costs over Rs
20,000 and has a capacity of only 4 gigabytes. By Shiv Aroor and Ashu
Kumar, Financial Express (via MyAppleMenu)
Is Apple Really Developing A Video iPod?
Is Apple Really Developing A Video iPod?
05/25/2004 06:56 AMApple job posting hints at video iPod
Apple job posting hints at video iPod
12/19/2003 03:46 PMAccording to a new job posting on Apple's Web site, the company is
looking for an engineer with experience in "overall system design of
audio and video products" to develop a next generation iPod product...
Apple seeking video iPod developer
Apple seeking video iPod developer
12/19/2003 01:12 PMA job-posting on Apple's site implies that the next generation iPods
will do video, too.
Seeking a highly motivated engineer to develop next generation iPod
product. Must have experience in overall system design of audio and
video products.
LinkEncouraging sign that Apple has a video
iPod on the way
Encouraging sign that Apple has a video
iPod on the way
12/19/2003 05:03 PMMore evidence that Apple is working on a video iPod. MacMinute reports
that a posting for a job has appeared on the Apple web site...
Apple iPod with Video and WiFi
Capabilities?
Apple iPod with Video and WiFi
Capabilities?
08/30/2004 01:58 PMApple Marches To Own Tune In Shunning
Video iPod
Apple Marches To Own Tune In Shunning
Video iPod
06/15/2004 09:26 PMBrokering licensing deals with content distributors and creators, such
as movie studios, is expensive and time-consuming. Also, there is yet
to be any sign of great clamoring for portable video players by
consumers.
By Duncan martell, Reuters (via MyAppleMenu)
Apple Marches to Own Tune in Shunning
Video iPod (Reuters)
Apple Marches to Own Tune in Shunning
Video iPod (Reuters)
06/15/2004 05:55 PMReuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O)
already has a smash hit with its iPod digital music player, so
it might seem a no-brainer to follow up with one that plays
movies in time for Christmas.
Apple iPod: Apple's Evolutionary iPod
Gets Better But Leaves Room For
Improvement
Apple iPod: Apple's Evolutionary iPod
Gets Better But Leaves Room For
Improvement
04/13/2005 01:49 AMThe iPod's thoughful design and features make it an excellent MP3
player. But for picky buyers who are holding out for the ideal
portable music device, the wait continues. By Eric Dahl, PC World
Apple posts Apple Expo 2004 keynote
video
Apple posts Apple Expo 2004 keynote
video
08/31/2004 01:50 PMApple may not have provided a live Webcast of Apple Vice President of
Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller's keynote address to
attendees of this year's Apple Expo 2004 in Paris, France, but the
company has posted a link to from its
QuickTime home page.
Schiller gave a state of the union address recounting Apple's success
with its iTunes Music Store, its plans for Mac OS X v10.4, codenamed
"Tiger," and offered users the first look at Apple's new iMac G5. The
video is available in QuickTime and MPEG-4.
Starbucks' offerings demystified
Starbucks' offerings demystified
01/06/2005 12:14 PMCory Doctorow:
This website presents a key to translating Starbusian pidgin Latin
(want a mochalattamericanafrappaspressachino?) into English for coffee
civilians.
Single Made with just one shot of espresso. This is the normal
amount for all Tall-sized drinks except Mocha Valencias and
Americanos.
Double Made with two shots. This is the normal amount for all Grande-
and hot Venti-sized drinks except Mocha Valencias and Americanos. Also
the normal amount for Tall-sized Mocha Valencias and Americanos.
Triple Made with three shots. This is the normal amount for Grande-
and Venti-sized Mocha Valencias and Americanos. Also the normal amount
for most iced Venti-sized drinks.
Quad Made with four shots. Hope you weren't planning on sleeping
anytime soon.
Ristretto This is so rarely requested that even many baristas don't
recognize it. A normal shot of espresso takes about twenty seconds to
pull; a ristretto shot is stopped at fifteen seconds, making a
slightly smaller, less bold shot.
Link
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Snacks of America Demystified
Snacks of America Demystified
04/09/2004 04:12 PM
Chicken? Are you a man or you an elf?. I see this van around
quite a lot. Next time they should use a bigger marker and write
backwards so the car ahead can read it in the rear view mirror. :)
The Morning News has a brilliant article titled Unexplained Snacks of America
written by an Australian who has a few observations and guesses about
a some mysterious American foods. This coming from the land of
vegemite is a bit amusing. :)
Americans tend to assume that 99.9% of the population of the planet
have a deep, broad knowledge of American popular culture and for the
most part few disappoint us in that assumption. Finns, including my
own husband, know more at times about my own culture than I do. I find
that I take a near absurd pleasure in explaining things to Jarkko that
he hasn't ever seen, like 'Rooty tooty fresh and fruity'. Suddenly,
somewhere, a bunch of Americans just got a craving for breakfast at
midnight at Denny's. :) The world gets innundated with American TV,
movies, books and cartoons so I always feel dreadfully exposed and
dull by comparison to my European friends. It's like a woman who gets
shagged on the first date; the mystery is gone. I have a giddy glee
in seeing that the popular culture machine hasn't given up all the
little things that make life in America and that some enigma still
remains.
The author, Matt Roden, makes some very good observations and
I have only a few small bits to add to his explanations of the
unexplained. :)
-
Grits ~ Grits are, most assuredly, a food found in the
southern US, south of the Mason-Dixon line and as far west as Texas.
I've seen boxes of 'instant grits' as far north as St. Louis. Grits
are also known as hominy grits and less often grit-corn.
Hominy is ground corn separated from the hull and germ. It is ground
corn [ though i've also had wheat grits ] cooked in a vat of salted,
boiling milk. It's like a corn porridge served with butter and milk or
cream. There is also the expression, "Kiss my grits", which was made
popular by the TV show Alice in the 1970s, but us yankees have
no idea what that really means. I mean, ok, she was saying "Kiss my
ass", but does that mean that grits taste like ass? Some would tend to
agree with that assessment. Hollywood doesn't have a clue what grits
are either so this is likely why it hasn't been exported via the usual
channels just yet.
-
Hush Puppies ~ Curse you for reminding me of one of my
favourite foods! :) Hush puppies are deep-fried cornmeal batter.
Again, this is mostly in the South and in parts of the Midwest, like
St. Louis. Where did the name come from? Well...the more colourful
explanation is that after hunting, fishing and eating a big meal,
folks would toss the cornmeal bits to the dogs, calling, "Hush,
puppies!" You can, of course, add a nice southern drawl for extra
flair. The UK has fish and chips and the southern half of the US has
catfish and hush puppies.
-
Tums ~ My father used to eat these by the pound. They
are, essentially, flavoured chalk. An antacid for the tummy, a.k.a.
the tum tum. They are now marketed as a 'calcium supplement' for women
who want to avoid osteoperosis. Not much fun as a candy goes.
-
Mr. Pibb ~ Not Pibbs. Mr. Pibb was Coca-Cola's
competition for the Dr. Pepper market for crappy, sugary, not quite
root beer. If you want real root beer, those yankees with good taste
drink IBC Root Beer which
probably hasn't made it into the tinsel town marketing machine yet
either. There is one soda fountain still operating in North St. Louis,
the Crown Candy Kitchen, but few are left these days since most folks
just belly up for the super-size coke at the McDonald's drive-thru.
-
Collard Greens ~ Collard greens are another very
southern menu item. I'm starting to get the idea that the South needs
a better PR guy in Hollywood. Collard, derived form colewort, is
another word for Kale but collard greens these days can be a
mixture of kale, spinach, cabbage and other green leaves. They are
boiled in a big pot with fatback, i.e. pork bacon fat and served with
corn bread and black-eyed peas. Only southerners eat this stuff as the
smell is enough to kill a northern yankee at 40 paces.
-
Pork rinds ~ *ding*ding* A bag of gristle is a 100%
correct answer. Pork rinds are just pork skin, sometimes a bit of
seasoning, cooked in the fryolator and munched while watching sports
with a cold Bud. Accept no substitutes that aren't genuine pork skin.
Again, a southern treat especially loved by former president Clinton.
-
Clark Bar ~ Better than the Butterfinger candybar, the
Clark bar gets a bad rap. The Clark bar was, apparently created long before the
1950s in one of those romantic rags to riches stories that few
immigrants experience anymore. It's interesting that Necco [the
company who make all those valentine candy hearts] bought the Clark
bar as they're right across the street from MIT and people always said
that the factory is right over the particle accelerator. So, think of
the Clark bar as the closest you'll get to MIT. :)
-
Snapple ~ *ding*ding* Fruit juice with a good marketing
team is an astute answer. Marketing in the US is a fight club all of
it's own. I lived in Boston, which is right in Snapple marketing
central. They dumped all the 100% juice flavours like cranberry and
have gone into the yuppie GMO fruit flavours. They're a lot like Ben
& Jerry's Ice Cream which is good, occasionally brilliant, but
it's the marketing that makes them so popular. And don't blame TV for
making you eat a cream cheese crust pizza...ick! :)
I hope he does another of these and I may just do a version of
unexplained Finnish foods just for the fun of trying to explain mämmi
without using certain words to describe the visual and the tactile
senses. :)
Flash Remoting Demystified
Flash Remoting Demystified
11/28/2002 04:54 AMFlash Remoting is Macromedia's brave attempt to make Flash into a
front-end web application development tool, and they've done a great
job. Now all that remains is to figure out how to use it.
Reseller Hosting Demystified
Reseller Hosting Demystified
11/11/2002 10:24 PMWebmasterBase Nov 11 2002 8:45PM ET
Apple posts Apple Expo keynote video
Apple posts Apple Expo keynote video
08/31/2004 01:40 PMApple has posted a QuickTime stream of Phil Schiller's keynote at
Apple Expo in Paris, where he introduced the new iMac G5...
Dual Core Processing: Over-simplified,
Demystified and Explained
Dual Core Processing: Over-simplified,
Demystified and Explained
09/10/2004 04:56 PMVideo iPod
Video iPod
01/16/2004 10:59 AM
Robert
Scoble: those of us who fly coach often sure would love a
nice "video iPod." I agree. However, the road
there is likely to be rocky.
Last month, I bought a
Casio EX Z4
camera. I'm quite pleased with the form factor and the
quality not only of the pictures, but of the monitor screen.
In fact, I remarked to my wife that this would be an ideal form
factor for a
Location
Free TV, and she readily agreed.
So I did a bit of research, and
found
that EX-Z4U marketed in North America does not include the
Movie Mode. Thanks, Casio.
Now, let's take a look at the
video formats supported by proposed
Portable Media Center. Windows Media Video, and an
assorted set of still image and audio formats. No mention of
Real. No Quicktime. And most importantly, no
MPEG. While I intend to keep an eye on this, for the moment,
I'll pass.
For the short term, I'm looking into the
WinTV-P
VR-350,
and possibly MythTV.
Since I tend to travel with my laptop anyway, for the moment, that
will be my target device.
Where's The Video iPod?
Where's The Video iPod?
09/08/2004 11:39 PMGartner's Michael McGuire thinks the "portable media center" already
exists. He calls it a notebook. By Blane Warrene, MacNewsWorld (via
MyAppleMenu)
" Video Ipod? Maybe"
" Video Ipod? Maybe"
05/15/2004 08:41 AMVideo iPod?
Video iPod?
05/14/2004 03:19 AM
Appleinsider claims that upcoming 4th generation iPods may have some
interesting new video capabilities.
While not quite the "video iPod" that many...
Who Needs A Video iPod?
Who Needs A Video iPod?
03/17/2005 03:09 AM By Macworld
Wifi/Video iPod?
Wifi/Video iPod?
08/27/2004 01:52 PM
Apple Insider has made note of an Apple job listing for an iPod
engineer. Readers speculate that the inclusion of several key elements
may point at a ...
Video iPod likely by 2006
Video iPod likely by 2006
04/11/2005 01:59 PMPersonal Computer World Apr 11 2005 4:46PM GMT
Next Generation iPod (Video) Product?
Next Generation iPod (Video) Product?
12/19/2003 01:16 PM
Apple continues to work on their "next generation iPod" products as
evidenced by this Job Listing at Apple for a Playback Firmware
Engineer.
Apple ...
How to Make iPod Video Work
How to Make iPod Video Work
02/05/2005 09:12 PMQuite simply the reason the iPod Video didn't come out is that the
only video that's copyright-free is the stuff you make in iMovie
(well, you own the copyright, so it's more of a non-issue
than copyright-free). Frankly, I know few people wanting to copy
their movies of weddings, kids, and cats onto a device to view them
elsewhere. What we want are our TV programs and DVD movies.
So Apple, to make the iPod Video work, would need a PVR app (and hardware). Then Apple can let you
create content that is free of issues (personal recording is allowed,
regardless of the 1984 world the MPAA
wants us to live in) and encode it in H.264/AVC so that it can scale down to the
iPod level well (it's also used in 3G phones, so the iPod is a
no-brainer). Set it up to record whatever you want, select "iPod" as
the recording destination and then you get a file that is as small as
it can be to give good quality on the iPod. Or choose "TV" and then
use the supplied A/V cables to view on a random TV somewhere (use
those front inputs on that TV in the break room at work!).
Do this, and the world will follow quite quickly. Make it simple,
Apple simple, and the portable media market is
Apple's. Get a foothold in music and video and the iPod will clobber
all the other devices.
It's not so crazy, and it just might work. Hell, it might kill
TiVo if done right, and I love mine as much as the next guy.
4th Generation iPod Video Rumors
4th Generation iPod Video Rumors
05/14/2004 10:47 AMAppleInsider has some speculation about the rumored 4th generation
iPod, including possible video playback functions that may not work
exactly as you'd expect. Although a color screen is possible (and,
really, it's time), the new video features may not come from the iPod
directly, but instead from an upgraded dock,...
Perspectives on a Mac tablet, video iPod
Perspectives on a Mac tablet, video iPod
09/08/2004 07:19 AMIn a blog posting on eWEEK, Matthew Rothenberg offers some of his
viewpoints on the likelihood of a Mac-based tablet PC and/or video
iPod...
Play video on an iPod under GNU/Linux
Play video on an iPod under GNU/Linux
06/05/2005 11:42 PMCory Doctorow:
Once you install GNU/Linux on your iPod, you can play videos on it!
Link
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Bringing VIdeo Playback To The iPod
Bringing VIdeo Playback To The iPod
01/05/2005 10:27 PMBeating Apple to the punch, little-known peripheral manufacturer
Nyko has unveiled an iPod accessory which enables the popular audio
player to play back videos on a 3.5" display. By Jorgen Sundgot,
InfoSync World
New technology paves way for video iPod
New technology paves way for video iPod
12/16/2003 05:30 AMThe Register today is reporting that PortalPlayer, the company that
produces the hardware, software, and processor technology behind
Apple's iPod, is planning to launch a "Photo Edition" of its
chip/firmware combination...
Video iPod: Will enough rumors make it
real?
Video iPod: Will enough rumors make it
real?
04/06/2005 08:33 PMCNET News.com Apr 7 2005 12:33AM GMT
Video iPod? How Steve Jobs Can
Not Take Back His Words
Video iPod? How Steve Jobs Can
Not Take Back His Words
08/27/2004 02:03 PMWhy is Apple looking for an engineer to work on
video
integration for the iPod, even after what Steve Jobs has said?
Here are some wild and crazy ideas...
1. Apple will pioneer a new
eyeglass add-on, where video will be piped to just one of the two
lens. Now, you
can watch video while exercising.
2. The
iPod will not only be able to record audio, but video too.
3.
Daddy and mommy can listen to jazz in the frontseat of their BMW,
while the kids can watch Barney in the backseat. From the same
iPod.
Do you have any
ideas beyond what
Microsoft is doing with its portable video player?
Video iPod tops Forbes writer's 2005
wish list
Video iPod tops Forbes writer's 2005
wish list
12/24/2004 12:57 PMArik Hesseldahl of Forbes says a video iPod tops his 2005 tech wish
list...
PBS' Cringley predicts cheaper iPods,
video iPod for 2004
PBS' Cringley predicts cheaper iPods,
video iPod for 2004
01/05/2004 01:13 AMRobert X. Cringley, author and technology writer for PBS, says Apple
will introduce cheaper iPods as well as a video iPod in his
predictions for 2004...
Apple - iPod
Apple - iPod
01/07/2004 07:00 PMportable mp3 player with 5 gigs of storage .. iPod: 1,000 Songs in
your Pocket .. totalmente nuevo .. Apple's new iPod .. 10 gig iPods ..
misses again .. 'Bout time .. stuff .. oPod .. need .. you .. dit ..
toy
apple.com/ipod
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Apple iPod 15 GB
Apple iPod 15 GB
05/19/2004 06:08 PMThis is undoubtedly expensive and not something everyone can afford.
But its cool looks, sound quality and the extreme flaunt value make it
a fair buy. By Ameya Dalvi, Techtree.com (via MyAppleMenu)
Apple - iPod Your BMW
Apple - iPod Your BMW
06/21/2004 08:33 PMAs if there weren’t enough reasons to want a BMW .. for one of
these .. Apple announced
apple.com/ipod/bmw
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Apple iPod
Apple iPod
12/05/2003 11:26 AMAlthough far from cheap, the sheer style and substance of the iPod
make it both a desirable and worthwhile purchase. By Robert Irvine
(Web-User via MyAppleMenu)
iPod: Think Different For Apple
iPod: Think Different For Apple
01/16/2004 11:04 AMApple Computer has a history of introducing innovative products and
then seeing competitors gain all the profits. Will iPod, its iconic
digital music player, be any different? By Robert Cyran (CNN Money via
MyAppleMenu)
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