HiJack: Cheap iPhone Accessories

Engineers at the University of Michigan have put together a prototype device that can be powered and communicate via the audio jack on an iPhone. Currently if you want to create an accessory that is to be used with the 30 pin connector on the iPhone you must pay a licensing fee to Apple as [...]

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iPod 2 iPod Transfer

Have you even run into a friend who has a song on their iPod that you have been dying to find? Unless you’ve got some time and they have their computer with them then your SOL, unless you have the iPod 2 iPod Transfer Device handy. This device allows you to quickly and easily transfer [...]

3G, GPS, MobileMe, Oh My

After all of the rumours (what else is new) the 3G iPhone is finally here. Hits the shelves on July 11th (in Canada too!) $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB Black, with a white 16GB model GPS In a clear action of trying to play catch up to Google, Apple also announced a suite of [...]

IR Speeds Hit 1Gbps

Truth be told that the IR (Infared) port on my PDA’s and old laptops never saw much use since it was painfully slow to actually do anything via IR, and with Bluetooth and WiFi dominating the wireless transfer airwaves why would anyone bother with that old IR technology? KDDI R&D Laboratories are about to change [...]

iTunes 7.6 And Digital Copies

According to the site macrumors.com will are set to see the release of iTunes 7.6 during next weeks MacWorld. This one isn’t just going to be a bug fix release, as you can see from the picture above someone got an early copy of a Family Guy DVD which mentioned that he needed iTunes 7.6 [...]

Zip Drives Back – Lord Help Us

Come on, admit it. You at some point had a ZIP drive, we all did. I can still remember transferring files via sneaker-net with my beloved ZIP disks in hands. 100 Megs, unheard of you could copy all of your stuff and still have room for even more stuff. Then came the click of death, [...]

Social Messaging: Pownce v. Jaiku

I think I am finally grasping this whole concept of social messaging. I don’t know if being over 30 has made me un-cool or if, god forbid, I have become like my parents were when I was young, square and old fashioned but I has taken me a while to grasp the concept of social [...]

USB 3.0 to promise 5 Gbps

Remember the days of transferring data via serial or parallel? Those immensely slow speeds that we dreaded to deal with. Pretty soon we will look back at USB 2.0 and say the same thing. The new proposed USB 3.0 spec, which should be out in 2008, promises backward compatibility with USB 1.1 and 2.0. By [...]