It’s been muttered about since the first of the year, but now it’s official and in full effect: TiVo gets the Rhapsody Music Service, and users get a month-long free trial without providing a credit card, or even signing up. It’s just one click. (Okay, like two.)
It’s a match-up of make-life-easier products, albeit two of the more famous underdogs in the whole digital-home arena. I had the chance to play around with the software and shoot a gallery of screens to give you an idea of how TiVolicious the Rhapsody experience just got.
You pop through menus with the familiar TiVo feedback sound effects, spelling out song and artist searches exactly as you would for TV shows or actors. You can drill deep with a progressive search (names appear as you type) or stay at high level, looking at Rhapsody’s new releases and suggestions. You can add songs to a queue, [...]
Original post by Wilson Rothman
Is Twitter going to turn your mundane messages about salads, cats, and Arcade Fire concerts into revenue dollars? Signs are pointing to yes, as oddball messages appended to Twitter’s microblog “tweets” indicate that the company is dabbling in text message ads. Some other folks around the tech blog world …
Original post by Caroline McCarthy
Apple was named defendant in a class-action lawsuit filed by Timothy Smith over bricked iPhone matters. Specifically, he asks that Apple be forbidden from selling locked iPhones and that it provide warranty assistance for owners of unlocked iPhones, unable to hit the more modern 1.1.1 firmware without bricking.
I’d agree with the second point, and I’d dare say that if Apple sold the iPhone unlocked but without visual voicemail support on TMO, others might actually choose AT&T instead of feeling jailed by them. These are the same lawyers, M. Van Smith and Damian R. Fernandez, who opened up the site appleiphonelawsuit.com, so this is part of that same fishing trip, which seems more justified than past class-action frivolity. I don’t agree with Apple on their recent iPhone policies, and think it’s a dicey time to buy the phone, but I’m also not a fan of overly litigious conversations between [...]
Original post by Brian Lam
Quick Apple hack updates: The iPod touch is reported to have reached a read milestone for the filesystem. The iPhone’s 1.1.1 firmware has a few apps ported to it, but it’s still not easy for general consumption. We’ll do full posts when more easily implemented hacks are finished. [TUAW]
Original post by Brian Lam
Blank CD’s are on their way out as a day to day storage medium, and by the looks of things they don’t make for a very comfortable chair either. The inexplicably titled “Panda Chair” was designed by Belen Hermosa using hundreds of disks lined in rows. It may be uncomfortable, but I suppose lying on a bed of flash drives wouldn’t be so hot either. [Designboom]
Original post by Sean Fallon