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Reviewing the Logitech Squeezebox Touch

By tim, on June 1st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I found time over the long weekend to review the Logitech Squeezebox Touch. It’s a great gadget, which I like better the more I play with it, though it has flaws. I also suspect that Logitech’s marketing does not do it justice.

Most people look to Apple’s iTunes when they make the transition from

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iTunes user has account hacked, loses access to his own purchases

By tim, on May 27th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Spare a thought for iTunes user Peter Bilderback. His account was hacked and someone downloaded almost a $1000 worth of items from the iTunes store using his account. Bad stuff, but it happens. Bilderback wonders why Apple did not query the purchase of iPhone apps, when it knew that he had no iPhone –

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Spotify goes social with Facebook, supports local music library

By tim, on April 27th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Spotify has announced a set of new features with the aim of “evolving into a total music management platform”, according to today’s blog post. There are two key features, available to both free and paying users.

The first is a link to Facebook, enabling you to see and share the playlists of your Facebook

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Magazine chief: iPad users - prepare to be retrained

By tim, on April 12th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The Guardian has an interview with Future Chief Executive Stevie Spring. Future is a major magazine publisher based in the UK. I was interested to hear how she believes the iPad could change the industry:

We’ve had a whole decade of people paying, believing that if they paid for the pipes they got the

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No Flash on iPad? No problem – we’ll redesign the site says NPR and others

By tim, on April 6th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

It is fascinating to see the impact of Apple’s hostility to Adobe Flash on iPhone and now iPad.

On the one hand, it’s a gift to rival vendors such as Google, which is bundling Flash into Chrome (a contentious decision judging by the comments), and Microsoft, which has promised Flash support in Windows Phone

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Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell

By tim, on December 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The Mono Project has released Moonlight 2, its implementation of Silverlight for Linux. I tried my own database application and was pleased to find that it works fine; better than it did with the earlier release.

Note the right-click menu which offers some handy debugging features as well as the invitation to “Install

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Review: Sansa’s iPod alternative

By tim, on December 4th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The number of shelves dedicated to non-iPod music players in the average electronics retailer seems to shrink with each passing year, and as I write the top 10 bestselling MP3 players at Amazon.co.uk are all iPods, so it’s good to note that Apple alternatives still exist. As it happens, I’d been using an iPod

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Logitech Squeezebox Radio has social features, unsocial price

By tim, on September 3rd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Logitech has announced the Squeezebox Radio, similar in concept to the Squeezebox Boom which I reviewed earlier this year, but smaller, cheaper, and with a colour screen. It’s set to go on sale soon at $199.00.

The Squeezebox Radio has a trendy new feature: Facebook integration:

Say you just discovered a new

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BBC trying out HTML 5, video element

By tim, on August 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC has an HTML 5 demonstration using the video element. The video itself is encoded in both Ogg and H.264. In the screenshot below I have just clicked on a navigation image to jump to a specific place in the video. The demonstration is meant to work in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, though

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Spotify for iPhone looks great – if Apple allows it

By tim, on July 27th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m fascinated by the announcement of Spotify for iPhone.

Spotify lets you stream music from the company’s servers using a particularly fast and elegant user interface. The choice is huge, and of course shareable playlists are supported – I’ve had a lot of fun with these, using the desktop version.

Now here it comes

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