The Zune’s biggest fan, Steve Smith , aka the Zune tattoo guy, has given up on Microsoft’s portable media player.
“I am done, throwing in the towel due to a lazy offering by Microsoft,” says Smith.
To make it even worse PR for Microsoft, Smith’s bought a new portable media player. “Bought a new PMP today,” [...]
Bad news for Microsoft: its most passionate advocate - mszunefan, aka The Zune Guy - is “done with the Zune” and has vowed to get rid of his Zune tattoos:
“I am done. I have had the Zune since day 1 and have noticed little improvement.
I have tried my best to support them every step of [...]
Creative Technology today introduced the Creative ZEN Mozaic portable media player, a small multimedia player with built-in speaker, FM radio & built-in microphone.
Features:
Built-in speaker turns player into a mini boombox so that music can be shared out loud
1.8-inch TFT LCD color display
Built-in FM radio with up to 32 preset stations
Built-in microphone for voice recording
Dimensions: [...]
This is off-topic and pretty stupidtacular - but ntr23 has posted a really fun set of iPhone unpacking photos.
Watch out for the almost-tragic iPhone unpacking industrial accident.
Auttomatic has announced that WordPress for iPhone is now available.
It lets you blog from your iPhone and offers support for tags & categories, photo support for both camera phone pics and library photos and support for multiple blogs.
At instructables, leevonk has shared instructions on making a Tupperware iPod Boombox.
The cheap DIY project “uses dollar store Tupperware, styrofoam and cheap speakers to make a surprisingly cool boombox/stereo.”
via Lifehacker
Note: See update at the end of this article.
AT&T has just announced a fantastic perk for iPhone owners with AT&T contracts, free WiFi for iPhone customers on the nation’s largest Wi-Fi hotspot network. This opens up more than 17,000 hotspots, including Starbucks, to iPhone users to use for free on their iPhone, laptop or other [...]
The DirectVoxx Muso is add-on for the iPod and iPhone that is designed to let you access your music with voice commands.
The Muso synchronizes with your iTunes library and can respond to commands like “Play me some Led Zeppelin”, “How about some Rolling Stones”, “Gimme jazz” or “Go to My Broadway Tunes playlist”.
The Muso [...]
In this video, Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation do a demo for Microsoft’s Zune digital media player.
Yeah - it’s an informercial. What makes it interesting, though, is that Microsoft is turning to video podcasters to help get the Zune some geek cred.
This wouldn’t work with all products, and this sort of product placement [...]
Ever since Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 3G, we’ve been waiting for this moment - the time when Tom Dickson from Will It Blend? destroys the over-hyped, twice-as-expensive, underpowered device in one of those monster Blendtec blenders.
Fortunately, it didn’t take long:
OK. Maybe we’re just a little bitter that 3G coverage is non-existent in Iowa.
But you [...]