Ramblings about entertainment and other things
Have you heard of Su Doku? It’s a pretty addictive puzzle game where you place the numbers one through nine in each row, column and box in a 9×9 grid.
It sounds simple, and some of the puzzles are, but they can get pretty complicated very quickly.
For a look at Su Doku for the Palm, check out
Bright SuDoku over at Handango.
Worried about breaking that iPod Nano
ArsTechnica puts the Nano through it’s paces in a pretty good stress test.
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Apple has discountinued the iPod Mini.
In it’s place, Apple announced the iPod Nano, a flash memory based iPod. This thing is supposed to run 14 hours per charge, it weighs about 1.5 ounces, and is 0.27 inches thick. It comes in two sizes, 2GB for $199 (holds 500 songs), and 4GB for $249 (holds 1000 songs). |
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Apple and Motorola have teamed up to release the first iTunes-enabled phone the Motorola ROKR. |
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Well, that was quick. Apple has
dropped the Mac Mini offer that would have allowed consumers to try the Mac Mini for 30 days, and send it back if they didn’t like it.
Well, that was quick. Apple has
dropped the Mac Mini offer which would have allowed people to try the Mac Mini for 30 days, and send it back if they didn’t like it.
Via CNet News.com
Just throwing a random thought out here, but what if one of Apple’s announcements next week is a large capacity iPod Shuffle? Same price, just bigger capacity?
Rumors are flying fast about the event that Apple is holding at Moscone Center in California on September 7th. The latest guess is that
Apple, Motorola, and Cingular have teamed to release an iTunes phone. Currently guesses is that it’ll have between a 25 and 100 song capacity.
Whether that’s true or not…. well, we’ll find out soon enough.
Apple is running a program where you can
Test Drive a Mac mini for 30 days.
Not a bad idea. This is just to sort of program to that might push those folks that are leaning towards trying out a Mac over the edge.
Via Gizmodo
There’s a flurry of news on the technology patent front in the last day or two. First,
Creative is accusing Apple of an iPod patent breach, saying that the iPod’s user interface violates a patent that Creative has.
Then comes the news that Nintendo has patented the Sanity system for games.
THEN there’s news that even
ringtones can be patented!
Things have gone absolutely nuts.
Via The Financial Times, Slashdot, and Engadget