Hasta La Gadget!

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been exactly ten years since the iPod was first unveiled, ultimately changing the music industry forever. The iPod wasn’t the first, it wasn’t the smallest, it didn’t have the largest hard drive, but it did have an iconic style and simple to use interface that led march away from CDs. When the history of Apple is written the iPod (perhaps more than the iMac, OS X or the iPhone) will be credited with helping spearhead the company’s second coming. Over the years the music player has seen countless iterations and redesigns, and an expansion of the product line to include smaller devices and touch screens — but for most it’s the scroll wheel and white earbuds that define the iPod. Sure, what is now called the iPod classic hasn’t seen a serious update since about 2007, but it still holds a special place in our hearts, especially for those of us who don’t measure their music collection in a few dozen iTunes downloads.

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This article was written on March 03, 2007 by CyberNet.

Who says your iPod is just for music? If you have an iPod, chances are, you use iTunes. And if you use iTunes, you probably already know that you can purchase games for your iPod, assuming you have a Video iPod. What you probably don’t know is that they’ve recently added Ms. Pac-Man. They don’t add games very often, so consider this big. I don’t know how easy it is to play Pac-Man using the scroll wheel on an iPod, but apparently it’s doable.

All games at the iTunes store are $4.99 which isn’t too bad, although the selection of games they offer are all ones that you could play for free online. They have classic games with some of my favorites like Bejeweled, Tetris, Sudoku, and Mahjong. If you’re into card games, they also have Solitaire.

As with your music, all you have to do is sync your iPod with iTunes, and the game(s) will transfer over. It’s as easy as that. And with the newly added Ms. Pac-Man, you’ll have 256 levels of mazes to occupy your time! Assuming you want to pay $4.99…

Source: Pocket Gamer

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If you drive, and if you read Engadget (which…you do), there’s a good chance you’ve spent some time using an iOS device in the car. You’ve probably also spent some of that time wishing there were a better way to integrate your phone or pod with the car itself. There have been devices to help you bring Pod and vehicle together in an unholy union of distraction since that first physical scroll wheel hit the scene, from maddening tape adapters and FM tuners to more integral solutions like Ford’s Sync system. The whole time, we were kind of just wishing they’d figure out a way to let us mount the thing directly in the dash, and have our way with it as we do in all other situations. Pioneer’s AppRadio approaches that — it looks unapologetically like a bigger iPod in landscape mode, complete with minimalistic physical controls and a laid-back, no-nonsense look about it. Does it, in fact, make the iPhone more useful while you’re in the car? Turns out, it’s a yes and no kind of thing.

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Pioneer AppRadio review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 22, 2008 by CyberNet.

Time Saving Tuesday

These days Internet access is available almost anywhere you go. Even if you refuse to pay for wireless Internet through your cellphone carrier, there are normally plenty of hotspots around town for you to stop in on. Once you get connected you can whip out a mobile device, such as a Pocket PC or cellphone, and blog away.

More and more devices are giving users access to full keyboards, but the problem that a lot of people face are the poorly optimized administration screens. Often times they can take a day just to load, and then trying to navigate the page is almost a heroic event in itself.

And there is good reason that you would want to blog from a mobile device. Maybe you just snapped a photo that you want to share, or maybe you want to manage your posts. We’re going to show you some of the tools you need to do that on WordPress, Blogger, and Movable Type.

Tip: iPhone & iPod Touch owners running WordPress or Movable Type will love what you’re about to see, but there’s stuff for all types of mobile devices here.

–WordPress–

One way you can blog with WordPress is via email. In the end you’ll end up sending off an email to an address that you specify. The subject line will be used as the title, the body will be the content of the post, and any attachments (images, files, etc…) will be included at the end of the post.

Alternatively there is an excellent mobile web interface available via the WPhone plugin. It has an uber sweet version available for the iPhone or iPod Touch, but it also includes two lighter versions that will even work well on less equipped devices. It will automatically detect what your browser is capable of, and display the version accordingly. All you have to do is check the “Use mobile admin interface” box when logging in.

Here are some various screenshots from the three different interfaces:

iPhone / iPod Touch:

Lite Version (no JavaScript):

Lite Version (no CSS & no JavaScript):

–Blogger–

The good news is that Blogger has two official options available for mobile blogging, but the bad news is that Blogger doesn’t have a plugin system so you can have any nifty third-party tools. Email is what I believe to be the best way for posting to Blogger from a mobile device. Instructions can be found here, but it generally works the same way as the WordPress email system mentioned above.

All you have to do is setup an email address to use, and then you’re good to go. The subject will become the title, the body will be the post content, and any image attachments will be thrown on the end of the post. One thing that they do note is that you should designate the end point of your post with a #end to ensure that Blogger recognizes when the content ends. This is because some email programs or antivirus apps will append a signature onto the end of outgoing emails, and doing this tells Blogger to ignore everything after the end marker.

There is also what Google considers to be a Blogger Mobile located at go.blogger.com. Initially I thought it might be a mobile interface to blog from, but instead it works similarly to their email system. All you do is send an email or MMS to go@blogger.com and they immediately setup a new blog for you with the message/images you sent. In return they’ll send a message back to you with a claim code which can be used to login to your new blog later on, or merge that post with your existing blog. This is a great solution if you just want to do a quick post with as little work as possible.

–Movable Type–

I was a little surprised to see that Movable Type doesn’t have an email system in place so that users can email posts to be published onto their blog. Someone did come up with a basic Perl script to get it done, but it’s not really something a novice user would be able to figure out.

The only mobile interface that I could find for Movable Type only works with the iPhone and iPod Touch specifically. It’s in the form of a plugin, and once installed you’ll be able to manage all of the different areas of your blog. Just take a look at how nice the interface is:

Now we know that we didn’t cover all of the major platforms, but we tried to take on the most popular ones. If you’ve got some other tools that you use to blog on-the-go be sure to drop them off in the comments below.

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