All Things Chill

Jacqui wrote an excellent article on Apple’s new “My Tunes” widgets for your blog. I’d love to stick it on my site somewhere… but I never jumped on the iTunes bandwagon. I’m sure a lot of you are… so I thought I’d bring it to your attention. This is what Jacqui wrote [...]

Jacqui and Clint (as well as Ars Tehnica’s Editor-in-Chief, Ken Fisher) have reviewed yet another Apple product: the iPhone. There, you’ll find Ars’ take on the iPhone’s keyboard, “iSafari,” Widgets, and incompatibilities with Bluetooth. In-depth journalism is commonplace here, but what’s different this time around are the video clips featuring Jacqui’s fingers (wow [...]

I’ve been a bad, bad geek. My life as a technology freelance journalist has been all but destroyed by the mighty corporation that currently employs me (which was a very positive life-change if I do say so myself), but that hasn’t stopped my old articles from being archived in the infinite depths of the [...]

I played the new Contra release on Xbox Live with Byron yesterday before we supposed to hit up the Mezzanine to check out Kid Koala. LOL. We didn’t go. TOO BUSY PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. Here are the deets from Gamespot:
One of the most anticipated retro arcade games announced for Xbox Live [...]

Oops. Do you smell that? Smells like a IMPULSE BUY. MWMWAHAHHAA. Jacqui wrote about this fancy new special edition on iLoop:
Well, part of the launching of PRODUCT RED also involves a partnership with Apple, and they allegedly will be announcing an anodized aluminum iPod nano during the Oprah Show [...]

I’ve always regretted not buying the green iPod mini… but now it’s smaller more-compact cousin just hit the party… and it’s begging me to take it home. Excerpt from Jacqui’s up-to-the-minute reporting on Ars (now that’s journalism!!!):
# New 2nd generation nano with an aluminum body, thinner than 1st gen nano
# Nano looks just [...]

So, if you’ve continued reading Ars Technica during my little hiatus from writing gadget/Apple articles (I’m back btw), you might have noticed Nobel Intent… Ars’ premiere science journal.
I had the pleasure of meeting John Timmer (DrJay in the forums and IRC) from NI for drinks at Les Joulins, one of my favorite [...]

I’ve been averaging about two news posts a day over @ Ars Technica’s Opposable Thumbs and Infinite Loop journals. Lots of interesting news lately. Apple released a 1GB version of their iPod nano and Sony Ericsson is releasing a good corporate level phone. Here are my articles so far this month listed [...]

An article that I wrote, from Arstechnica’s Infinite Loop Apple journal, was found on Google News earlier today. They even used my image! TUAW linked to it as well. You can read it too! Here’s the link: Apple releases Logic Pro 7.2 “crossgrade”. w00p w00p!
It’s probably not a big deal [...]

Yay for widgets! Bigger picture here. The New Mac OS X Tiger update (10.4.4) is about a week old, and I’m just starting to play with the newness of it all. Clint has a complete list of all the updates on iLoop. Most of it is background stuff that you won’t [...]

Jeremy Reimer has a front page article on Arstechnica (my second Internet home) on how Digital Rights Management (DRM) is affecting the DJ scene in Europe. I’d hate to think what would happen if it made its way over to the US. I bolded the important part for your skimming pleasure:
According to a [...]

Another Ars Roundup while I watch the emotional rollercoaster that is the Chicago Bears + Carolina Panthers game on FOX. If you didn’t know already, I write tech news for the illustrious Arstechnica.com. I’ve been switching off back-and-forth between Infinite Loop (Apple news) and Opposable Thumbs (Gadget sightings) this month, so there’s a [...]

LOL. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? I’ve haven’t been so excited to write about a product like this in a long time. I’m going to tear this thing to shreds on OT. But I have to be careful… as someone told me a long time ago… “Herschell, HATE IS NOT JOURNALISM.” [...]