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Yahoo! Music Store taking DRM servers offline, freezing out customers {Engadget}
Jul 25th 2008 11:17AM Is this article accurate? Yahoo moved me to Rhapsody (which is a pile of crap) but it moved all my DRM music at the same time, and thus far it seems to work with no issue.
Yahoo! Music Store taking DRM servers offline, freezing out customers {Engadget}
Jul 25th 2008 11:17AM What are you talking about, needing a degree? The Redbook CD spec has NO COPY PROTECTION whatsoever. Here's how I rip CDs:
1) Insert Cd
2) Launch CDex
3) Click Rip
Maybe I should go to college, this crap is easy.
Palm Treo 800w review {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 24th 2008 3:49PM I just got mine last night. I really haven't had time to get used to it yet but my early impressions are:
* EXTREMELY buggy so far. It was locking up for 5 seconds like every ten seconds, and the battery went from 100% to 5% in under 8 hours. I went through the task manager and killed everything, no help, I finally had to remove and replace the battery. Today the wifi just disappeared for no reason. Couldn't find any way to re-enable it and it no longer showed up in connection manager. Removed / replaced the battery and all is well for now.
* It definitely feels better in my hand than my 755P. Flatter and more solid all around - The best way to describe it is the Thinkpad of phones. The SD card cover is increcibly chintzy and I think I'll rip the thing off by accident sooner than later.
* The screen is more recessed (as stated above) and more 'squishy' than my 755P, I think the material and build is straight off the Centro. Same goes for the stylus. Bendy and cheap feeling.
* Windows Mobile 6 is better than 5 for sure, it's /almost/ usable. Not quite, though. I wish Palm would update their OS.
* No idea what the reviewers are talking about, I can find the buttons in the dark without issue.
Walt Mossberg reviews the iPhone 3G, isn't that impressed (now with more David Pogue and Ed Baig!) {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2008 10:05PM Weird, I know somebody running the 2.0 beta and he has both Exchange and a personal IMAP account syncing on the phone. I wonder if they took that option out in the final rev or if ol' Walt is just mistaken.
Sprint's Treo 800w manual goes online, all 436 spellbinding pages of it {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2008 2:00PM I should have one in hand by next week at the latest, I'll be sure to send pics to the Engadget crew.
The Bill Day giveaway (part 4) - Windows Vista Ultimate {Engadget}
Jun 28th 2008 10:52AM I get paid to fix Windows machines, so my favorite invention has to be the Blue Screen of Death. Cha-ching!
Samsung Instinct to run $199.99 on contract {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2008 10:15PM I have friends at Sprint. It was definitely an Instinct. I have some pics of the thing but I'm not posting them online since apparently Sprint has been firing people for showing the phone off. Some things that irked me:
* Haptic feedback is worthless. All it does is vibrate when you scroll one of the menus. On that note, scrolling a menu is TERRIBLE - It doesn't let you flick like the iphone so you end up selecting whatever your finger lands on
* The text messaging interface is effing horrid too. It defaults to landscape mode and there's no accelerometer, so flipping it sideways or vertical does nothing, you have to change the setting for the text entry and then the keyboard takes up 3/4 of the vertical screen.
* Web is crap. Horizontal only with these two bars surrounding either side of the page at all times.
* Screen real estate is much thinner than the iPhone. Sure the Instinct is a little narrower and lighter but it's not a good tradeoff IMHO.
* NO EXCHANGE SUPPORT AT LAUNCH. Holy crap this is bad, I thought that this was promised to us. I couldn't really mess with the email interface that much but it seemed less-than-intuitive.
* If this thing's supposed to have Wi-Fi, I couldn't find it. Neither could the Sprint employee.
* Youtube works. Looks terrible compared to the iphone but it streams pretty well over Sprint's network. Regular Flash does not work.
Samsung Instinct to run $199.99 on contract {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2008 7:17PM I used an Instinct last week. Despite Engadget's glowing review, I hated the thing. It's not even a decent phone, let alone an iPhone killer.
Buffalo Nfiniti WiFi / Ethernet bridge supports 5GHz 802.11n {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2008 4:54PM I've been using Apple Airport Extremes (802.11n) as extenders for all my XBMC Xboxes and MythTV machines throughout my apartment building via WDS. They work well but they're a little pricey at about $140 used plus shipping. Nice to see that there's finally an alternate solution. Granted 11n isn't final yet so who knows how well different company's products will inter-operate...
Atom-powered D945GCLF Mini-ITX motherboard now available {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 9:44AM Apples to oranges, no pun intended. Comparing this to a Mac Mini, which is a Core 2 Duo-based machine, is dumb.
