People are crazy about the iPod Nano, everyone either owns one already or wants one badly. If not, he or she probably owns or wants the bigger iPod. seoulfully, a recent law school grad awaiting his bar results, showed how he wanted one desperately in an e-mail he sent me:
man, i get my bar results friday! so NERVOUS!!! if i pass, my first post license paycheck, i’m not paying bills, i’m not buying furniture, i’m getting a nano!
🙂
I should’ve bought more AAPL.
AMD Horus system to get supercomputing boost
AMD AND NEWISYS are set to demonstrate a 32-way or more Horus system at a Supercomputing event in Seattle in a couple of week’s time.
iPod Users Are Among the Internet’s Most Prolific Influencers and Advertisers, Intelliseek Study Finds
consumers who own iPods are significantly more likely to create and spread consumer-generated media (CGM) on the Internet, a trend likely to increase with the incorporation of video content into iPods, says a recent consumer behavior study by buzz analytics firm Intelliseek.
Nice, just did this, all my album arts are pretty big, that’s why my 5g iPod was a bit slow… After disabling and re-enabling iPod album arts my new iPod’s interface is much smoother and faster! 🙂
Fix For Sluggish 5G iPod Interface:
So you bought one of the new 5G video iPods and have loaded it up with all your music and album art. But you notice that the interface is much more sluggish than previous generation iPods!
Scrolling through your list of songs is significantly slower and gameplay when playing the “brick” and “parachute” games with a song going in the background is unacceptable! Fortunately, there’s a fix. It has to do with your album art not being optimized on the iPod. Here’s how to fix it.
1) Plug your iPod into your computer and open iTunes Preferences.
2) In the iPod section of the preferences, turn off the “Album Art” option.
3) Disconnect your iPod and reconnect it to update the iPod.
4) Now go back to the Preferences and re-enable the “Album Art” option.
5) You’ll see iTunes begin to optimize the album art related to your songs. This could take several minutes depending on how much album art you have in your iTunes database.When you’re all done, the 5G iPod’s interface should be nice and snappy again.
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I just blogged about this not too long ago, was on IM with a friend at SigmaTel and turned out they released the 3600 yesterday…
It sounds pretty impressive:
Compared to current high capacity flash-based players on the market, the SigmaTel STMP3600 provides up to an 80% increase in battery life and smaller form factor design capabilities through the integration of battery recharge, power management, audio codec, and flash controller on a single chip solution. With support for all major audio codecs including MP3, Windows Media Audio, AAC, and OGG Vorbis, the STMP3600 offers industry-leading audio quality (based on tests using Rhode and Schwarz Audio Analyzer technology). In addition to world class audio, the STMP3600 will support MPEG4, H.264 and WMV9 video codecs at varying resolutions and bit rates.
Their stocks didn’t move much though, everybody knows it’s too late, they missed huge opportunities like the iPod Nano… oh well…
The folks at Newisys finally got their Java verification framework open sourced. Check it out at jove.sf.net.
Did we lose one of the backbones again? I can’t ping Amazon, A9 (and they’re in Palo Alto, about 10 miles from where I am)… Head-Fi is unreachable as well… And I can’t ping them from home with Comcast, and also from my server in Texas… hmm…
looks like they already posted a patch to 6.0…
With iTunes 6.0.1, you can preview, buy, and download over 2,000 videos on the iTunes Music Store and sync your music and purchased videos with iPod to enjoy on the go. To watch purchased videos, you must have Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
iTunes 6.0.1 features several stability improvements over iTunes 6.
After purchasing music from the iTunes Music Store with iTunes 6 or later, you will also need to upgrade your other computers that purchase music from the iTunes Music Store to iTunes 6.0.1.
PLAY still kindda trending down though… LOL… I guess everybody knew when it was announced so this is not news to investors…
Interesting bits on SGTL:
SigmaTel (SGTL – Hold, $14.70). Although no one had expected
SigmaTel to secure this design win, given its lack of an ARM core
and late delivery of its 3600, we believe that the entrance of
Broadcom into this market adds one more obstacle preventing it
from securing a new Apple design win next year.
Now, if any of my former SigmaTel colleagues reads this, when the f is 3600 going to come out?! 😉
To be fair, when they finally put it out it might replace quite a few of the chips listed in the BOM. (this is all I can say without getting into serious troubles)…
Interesting features/upgrades on new PowerBooks (15 and 17), besides the
obvious like higher res, longer battery life, and brighter display:
It’s disappointing to see the 12″ PowerBook still has a 256MB RAM
module on-board, so maximum without soldering is still 1.25GB.