Archive for August, 2008

David Byrne and Brian Eno’s New Album Online

Monday, August 25th, 2008

David Byrne and Brian Eno take a cue from Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead and release their new album -- Everything that Happens Will Happen Today -- online at http://www.everythingthathappens.com . There are three packages, three ways to get this album: as a high quality digital only download for $8.99; a ...

Apps Showing up Multiple Times in iTunes

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Click Screengrab to Enlarge This is a screen grab of my iPhone application updates in iTunes.  One simple question: Why are applications showing up two, three times?  Seems like this shouldn't happen.  And I have no guess as to why except maybe something is screwing up if I choose to update ...

12Seconds.tv: The video Twitter

Monday, August 4th, 2008

12Seconds.tv launched in late July with a Twitter-like purpose.  Let others know where you are and what you're doing, but 12Seconds does it with video -- up to 12 seconds worth at a time. Mowing on 12seconds.tv Embedded above is 12Seconds user tw3nty3ight mowing grass. One point ABC News makes in its ...

Stephen King’s “N.”

Monday, August 4th, 2008

From the website: Master storyteller Stephen King presents a revolutionary new form of entertainment: his short story “N.” brought to vibrant life through a series of 25 graphic video episodes. The original series tells the story of a psychiatrist who falls victim to the same deadly obsession as his patient—an obsession ...

Unwanted Red Lines and Errors in Google Reader

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Please click the above screen grab to actually see the red lines. Google Reader in Internet Explorer jumbles the bottom options and cuts off the time stamp when zooming. So I've been getting these red lines between stories in Google Reader ever since the beta testing of Firefox 3.  And they ...

NetShare iPhone App Released, Yanked, Released, Yanked Again

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

According to MacRumors an iPhone tethering application called NetShare has been released to the iTunes app store, yanked, released again and now yanked again.   For those of you lucky enough to grab the $9.99 application there is a tutorial on the Wired Gadget Lab blog. Somewhat foolishly, I decided to call ...