IPod Thieves Hit Subways. Is Anyone Listening?

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iPod thieves hit N.Y. subways

iPod thieves hit N.Y. subways 04/02/2005 04:16 PM
Are iPod owners about to learn the ‘Market Share Lesson’? Just as Windows’ wide-spread popularity make it the target of choice for hackers, the up-and-coming popularity of iPods (not to mention their high price) is apparently making them the target of choice for theives. Read more……

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iPod bandits targeting subways

iPod bandits targeting subways 03/29/2005 08:08 PM
CNET News.com Mar 30 2005 12:50AM GMT

iPod Revolutionizing Listening Habits

iPod Revolutionizing Listening Habits 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Joseph P. Kahn writes for the Boston Globe, “Even more wondrous than its sophisticated technology, though, is how the iPods and their ilk are changing the way music is being experienced, or reexperienced, by all sorts of audiophiles in all sorts of settings, from health clubs and school cafeterias to malls and subway cars.” [Apr 5]

College kids are thieves, thieves,
thieves

College kids are thieves, thieves,
thieves 11/03/2003 11:13 AM
FoTW Software recidivists

"Instinctually I am listening for the
sound of her breathing or to the sound
of her swallowing, and if those noises
sound okay then I’m listening to the
sounds of the house to make sure
monsters don’t come out of the walls to
hurt her"

"Instinctually I am listening for the
sound of her breathing or to the sound
of her swallowing, and if those noises
sound okay then I’m listening to the
sounds of the house to make sure
monsters don’t come out of the walls to
hurt her" 08/27/2004 03:50 PM

"world subways"

"world subways" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Japanese Subways Are Packed

Japanese Subways Are Packed 01/04/2005 12:03 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: Short video clip of Japanese commuters getting squeezed into a subway car by three uniformed officials. Link (Via Ektopia)

Heavy Rain Disrupts Subways, Flooding
Tunnels

Heavy Rain Disrupts Subways, Flooding
Tunnels 09/08/2004 04:39 PM
Hundreds of thousands of Manhattan commuters were forced to overcome delays or negotiate alternative routes to work.

Live-action "Scotland Yard" on the
streets and subways of Toronto

Live-action "Scotland Yard" on the
streets and subways of Toronto 08/02/2004 03:02 AM
Joel is attempting to port a board game called Scotland Yard (something like Clue) into a live-action game played on the streets and transit system of Toronto.

To stand out from the crowd, Mr. X must wear his yellow "X" shirt. Detectives must wear the red "D". To win the game the detectives must physically touch Mr. X (optionally cuff, rough-up, interrogate and incarcerate).

Mr. X is randomly placed at a stop and must phone into HQ to tell his dispatcher what 3 methods of transportation he will be using on his next three moves (subway, streetcar, bus). 3 moves consists of a turn, Mr. X must reveal his location every second turn as he enters that location. His dispatcher must tell the detective's dispatchers, who in turn tell the detectives. The detectives locations known by Mr. X at all times.

Link (Thanks, Joel!)

Washington State Gets WiFi On Ferries,
NYC Subways Still Radio Silent

Washington State Gets WiFi On Ferries,
NYC Subways Still Radio Silent 06/11/2004 09:40 AM

Oh, this is lovely. Washington state ferries will be WiFi-enabled by summer, thanks to a small Port Townsend firm Mobilisa. They are beaming a fat signal from ship to shore over 5GHz (Glenn Fleishman is guessing 802.11a), they distributing it freely, at least until the fall, when they'll start charging. Each of the first equipped ferry runs have crossing times of 30 minutes.
Read [SeattlePI via WiFiNetNews]

Look At Me, I'm Not Listening To You

Look At Me, I'm Not Listening To You 05/31/2004 01:15 AM
Perhaps here's something the brand new iPod division in Apple can ponder on... invent a headphone / earphone that is aware when the user has it on the ears.
This is so that the iPod / iTunes / RealPlayer / Windows Media Player can automagically sense that the user has removed the headphone from the ears, and can proceed to pause the current tune / audiobook / broadcast for the user.

Oh, So You Are Not Listening?

Oh, So You Are Not Listening? 07/25/2004 01:02 AM
Jas on Snell describes a new feature of the iPod, where the music will automatically pause when you pull out your headphones from the iPod.
The world is now waiting for Apple to invent a new headphone which can detect whether you are listening to your tunes.
Imagine: you are grooving to your iPod, a phone ring, you pull out the headphone from your ears to attend to the phone, and the music automatically pauses. After the phonecall, you put back the headphone, and the music automatically re-start from where you left off. Cool, isn't it?

Listening

Listening 12/06/2003 04:32 PM
I’ve written before about how listening is the most important skill a software developer can have.

One part of listening is the art of listening to feature requests.

Sometimes you get a feature request that describes a problem and proposes a solution that’s right on the mark: all you have to do is implement it. Sometimes you get a feature request that’s just about right, and with a little modification and back-and-forth you end up with the right thing.

And other times you get feature requests that describe a problem but propose a solution that’s not right. So the art here is listening to the problem. Sometimes it’s not always plain, you have to figure it out (often by asking questions of the person who made the request).

For example: think about how Exposé must have come about. Users made requests about ways to find a given window easily when you have a bunch of windows open. I imagine people suggested solutions like a system-wide window menu.

But what Apple did in this case was listen to the problem rather than specific solutions, and they came up with a solution that probably nobody had asked for—but that works wonderfully (and that, as a bonus, delights people who use it).

Not every feature request will be solved so dazzlingly. Most requests are for small problems with simple solutions. But it’s worth keeping Exposé in mind as an example of the art of listening.

Know what you're listening to

Know what you're listening to 12/02/2003 01:23 AM
It's becoming increasingly difficult to know exactly what it is you're listening to on the radio now that DJs almost never announce the names of the songs they're playing (though, there are a few different services that can help, like Shazam, which sadly isn't out here yet, not to mention satellite radio, which usually includes track information). Anyway, if you want to be able to look at your radio and know exactly what it is that's playing, there's a new tabletop radio/CD player from Cambridge SoundWorks called the SoundWorks Radio CD 740 which uses Radio Data Service information to display the song title and artist of whatever it is your listening to on the radio. Almost certainly something that is going to start showing up in more and more radios. Read [Thanks, Kit]...

dog listening to podcasts

dog listening to podcasts 01/01/2005 07:09 AM

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Listening to Antarctica

Listening to Antarctica 03/17/2005 03:19 AM
Listening to Antarctica is a daily web diary, including audio clips (RealMedia) of ambient sounds and conversations onboard the Aurora Australis, a research vessel currently on its way to the Australian Antarctic bases. Margot Foster's next port of call is Casey Base.

Easy listening

Easy listening 12/02/2003 01:19 AM
Today my music on the cd changer mirrors the gray skies but that's how I've always been. My moods often...

What is the Sound of One Ear Listening?

What is the Sound of One Ear Listening? 12/02/2003 12:36 AM
Paul Gilster writes about the problem of audiences at events with Wi-Fi access: The not-so-silent clacking of keys provides a sensory backdrop much like a white-noise generator. You speak, and a constant barrage of tippity tap tap clack clickety clack echoes in the background. It's not symmetrical: at times, people listen and the typing stops. Other times, one lone typer hammers away--is he or she blogging what you're saying or playing Doom? The sounds rises and falls randomly in different parts of the room. Interestingly, he talks about the second level of communication being a basement meeting, but I think he hasn't seen an O'Reilly conference in action. At Emerging Technology in April, there were always several simultaneous channels: it was more like instant analysis and commentary of a live event. People would blog and post; using IM, including IRC channels; use SubEthaEdit (ne Hydra) for Mac OS X Rendezvous collaborative note taking; use some of the unique services for discussion or note posting. [via Smart Mobs]...

Listening to the chatter

Listening to the chatter 02/05/2005 09:31 PM
I'm sitting in building 33 waiting for the Bill Gates keynote to start, listening to the chatter. A guy behind me is asked whether he'll make the investment in VSTO 2005. He's on the fence. "I've been doing a lot of the stuff you see here for years in VB," he says. "And there's no upgrade from VSTO 2003 to VSTO 2005 -- you have to buy it all over again." Stilll, he appreciates the productivity gains as as you climb the VBA -> VSTO 2003 -> VSTO 2005 ladder. He'd like to convince his money people to write the check, but isn't sure they will. And then he makes this interesting point: "With the VB solution, if somebody changed one cell they'd break you," he says. "Now the tool insulates you from those changes." ...

Review: Laptop Listening

Review: Laptop Listening 04/04/2005 07:05 PM
We put four USB-powered speaker systems—designed for your laptop—through their paces.

Opinion: We’re listening

Opinion: We’re listening 03/30/2005 05:42 PM
What makes a magazine what it is? It’s not the editors, writers, designers, and other content creators. It’s not the advertisers or the physical paper and ink that arrive in your mailbox or on your newsstand every month. It’s the readers.

Other News: AAC Listening Test

Other News: AAC Listening Test 03/06/2004 02:07 AM
Roberto Amorim has the results of a public listening test of several AAC 128Kbps encoding systems.

iTunes Vs The Listening Room

iTunes Vs The Listening Room 05/03/2004 12:28 PM
By Jon Iverson, Stereophile (via MyAppleMenu)

Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
Something. So Start Listening.

Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
Something. So Start Listening. 06/05/2005 10:45 PM
The Bodybugg is an attempt to create an activity monitor that people would be willing to wear during most of their waking hours.

Dozens may be listening to your
phonecalls

Dozens may be listening to your
phonecalls 08/27/2004 02:07 PM

Listening to David Byrne

Listening to David Byrne 04/06/2005 11:29 PM
His online radio station, that is. Awfully interesting and, while not all exactly to my taste, never disposable. It’s surprisingly unsurprising; that is to say, it sounds like about what you think the music David Byrne likes would sound like.

See who's listening to what on a shared
iTunes library

See who's listening to what on a shared
iTunes library 08/04/2004 11:43 AM
Wanna know who is listening to your iTunes library? Use the Rendezwho widget for Konfabulator. I have some issues with it, but I know of no other application that does what it does. Unfortunately it can't tell you anything o...

Listening to your customers, learning
from JetBlue

Listening to your customers, learning
from JetBlue 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
Street Smarts: Learning From JetBlue. One day flying JetBlue, I found myself being served by David Neeleman, the airline's founder. When was the last time you met your customers and asked how you could better serve them? [...] As we sat there, buckling our seat belts and checking out the televisions in front of us, a middle-aged man with slightly graying hair stood up in the front of the plane. He had on the long apron that JetBlue flight attendants...

Listening and Talking about Movable Type

Listening and Talking about Movable Type 05/18/2004 04:43 PM
Please continue to keep sending TrackBacks to this post. We appreciate our users taking the time to write up their...

Shhh! The FBI's listening to your
keystrokes

Shhh! The FBI's listening to your
keystrokes 04/19/2004 06:53 AM
CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh notes that police have long been able to intercept Internet traffic. So why is the FBI pushing to expand its snooping purview?

Building A Museum Listening Station?

Building A Museum Listening Station? 05/09/2004 07:52 PM
Slashdot May 10 2004 0:16AM GMT

Building A Museum Listening Station

Building A Museum Listening Station 05/09/2004 06:27 PM

Which listening patterns are
Radiohead-approved?

Which listening patterns are
Radiohead-approved? 01/19/2004 01:55 PM
Pat, noting that Radiohead "believes their albums should be listened to in their entirety and will not sell them online as singles," wonders:

# My CD player has a random feature. Am I allowed to listen to the Radiohead album on random play?
# The inside of my car is quite noisy and I'm thinking it might interfere with the "Radiohead experience." Can I listen to it in my car?
# At home I have two small JBL speakers for my stereo, are these "Radiohead approved?"
# What household activities am I allowed to do while I listen to the new Radiohead album? I'm guessing that dusting would be okay, while vacuuming would be right out...

...and so on. Link

Breaking RSA Keys by Listening to Your
Computer

Breaking RSA Keys by Listening to Your
Computer 05/08/2004 11:56 AM

Listening is important, but leading is
the main job

Listening is important, but leading is
the main job 01/11/2004 02:43 AM
Boston Globe Jan 11 2004 1:51AM ET

Easy Listening For The Long Haul

Easy Listening For The Long Haul 12/18/2003 03:28 AM
Need to keep the kids busy on long road trips? Check out audible.com, a repository for audio programming of all kinds. By Michelle Slatalla (New York Times via MyAppleMenu)

WINAMP.COM | Listening for the sound of
a pin drop

WINAMP.COM | Listening for the sound of
a pin drop 12/17/2003 08:23 AM
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Bored on a bus, listening to Psycho
Killer.jpg [Flickr]

Bored on a bus, listening to Psycho
Killer.jpg [Flickr] 12/30/2004 11:11 AM

Famous American launches 4G - but this
time, is anyone listening?

Famous American launches 4G - but this
time, is anyone listening? 06/03/2004 05:01 AM
McCaw is back
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