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Saki teams up with INgrooves to create "wireless digital music community"
Saki Mobile, the kinda-sorta MVNO that also distributes its content through a Windows Mobile application, has teamed up with independent "digital record label" INgrooves to offer users what they're calling a "wireless digital music community." INgroove, which represents such artists as Nappy Roots and Thievery Corporation, will offer their musicians' songs, bios, pictures, ringtones, etc., etc., along with supposed "direct access" to the bands themselves through a messaging service. Furthermore, subscribers can communicate amongst one another using Saki's IM client, chatting and sending around concert info and band updates, along with all the great swag that they've downloaded. [Via Moco News]
TUAW Tip: Hit esc for some word suggestions
It appears that while typing a word in many OS X apps, such as iChat and Yojimbo, hitting the Esc key will present a drop-down list of word completion options. I *think* this might be a Cocoa-related service of Mac OS X (sorry, Firefox users), but I'm always hesitant to toss out a guess like that because I am constantly surprised as to which apps are actually Cocoa (Finder, for example, is still Carbon, even in Tiger). I get this popup in Ecto, Stickies and Mail as well, but not in any input areas on websites in Safari, so feel free to experiment with this handy but (as far as I know) undocumented feature.
Survey: is .Mac worth it yet?
With last month's 1 TB bandwidth update to .Mac and all the powerful new one-click photocasting, podcasting and vidcasting features of iLife 06 with iWeb, I thought it would be a good time to check in with you TUAW readers again to find out if .Mac is looking any more appetizing in this post-Macworld 06-keynote world.Personally, I can't wait for my copy of iLife 06 to arrive, and I'm happier than ever to own a .Mac membership. But enough about me, what about you, TUAW readers: are you a .Mac member with a copy of iLife 06 already on the way? Do the new features tempt you all the more to sign up, or are you still not sold? Let's hear it!
.Mac services down Monday evening
Looks like all .Mac services are going to be down for four hours this evening, from 7 pm till 11 pm PST. Does this get anyone else's gears turning? I'm not usually one to help churn up rumors, but with 10.4.3 being recently seeded to developers, as well as iChat and .Mac upgrade speculation flying around, I can't help but get at least a little fired up. I mean: how often is it that all services are taken down? Usually it's one or the other, and rarely (at least in my two years of experience) is email actually down, let alone for 4 hours.Hopefully, this is an answer to at least some of the complaints and feature requests from .Mac members everywhere. Just in case it isn't though: you don't get to yell at me, for I am just a fellow Mac geek, hoping for the best.
