You got screwed. Again.

It doesn’t surprise me, but still…did you know that if your TV lacks an HDMI connector, you won’t be able to play hi-def content?

Gee, thanks entertainment industry. Way to fuck with anyone who already bought and HD-TV and was simply waiting for content.

FINALLY, Apple comes to Rhode Island.

We’ve waited a while to get a Rhode Island AppleStore. Thanks to IFOApplestore.com i know it won’t be much longer– CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN!

I’ve grabbed the image from IFO to keep from hotlinking their image:

Free music courtesy of Microsoft…

1. With laptop in hand, travel to metro area

2. Connect to an open wireless network, and look for other computers on this open network

3. Connect to these machines (almost always Windows boxes where users have turned on printer and file sharing) with the user name guest and the password guest.

Then browse your way to free music!

Thanks Microsoft!

Kar-mometer

My karma should be in good shape because:

• I helped someone get online at Panera (on a PC)
• I helped someone protect thier wireless network (on a linksys/PC)
• I helped someone reboot their wireless base station, and helped them figure out that the password had changed (on a PC)

See a trend there?  I’m just sayin.  It’s amazing PC products aren’t cheaper to offset all the wasted time.

and now…a post for melissa

I must have been under a rock when Madonna released her newest album on iTunes in a gapless format. (See, Melissa, I mentioned Madonna)

I only just read about it in Macworld today (woah, news from a printed magazine?). A gapless formatted album points to Apple and Artists’ recognition that the iPod’s grand canyon of slience slight pause between songs just ain’t gonna cut it. I’d thought Apple was planning to use the chapter markers frequently used in ‘enhanced’ Podcasts as a solution– and I hope that they do in the end…but I’ll settle for the admission that ‘gaps suck’, for now.