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There's something about Marty'sÂ… pants
Edvarcl Heng | Dec 14, 2005
For the guy geek who hates be caught with his pants down without an iPod, how about getting him a piece of underwear to store his… erm, nano? It's the latest in iPod-themed fashion and we think it's been a long time coming. "Creatively" named the iBoxer, this spandex/cotton button fly twang has a pocket to store your favorite music player or mobile phone. Just remember to set your cell on vibrate; else you might be thrown into a cell for attempting to silence it in public.
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Barred by bar codes
Edvarcl Heng | Dec 09, 2005
But, hey, we reckon that he is a pretty smart kid, too. Not like us fuddy-duddies back in our hey days when shoplifting involve chatting up the old lady at the cashier while the cronies stock up the school satchel with chips and Coke.
Now that petty crime has been baptized by high technology, one of those teenage thieves went one up by printing out his own bar codes. Pretty nifty, huh? Especially when it involves a S$250 (US$177.62) iPod going for S$8 (US$5.68). Would-be criminals can take heart since the setup for this caper is a simple one--a dubious program and a printer.
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Creative's got a vision
Edvarcl Heng | Dec 08, 2005
After the rumors that have been circulating around the Internet on Creative's secret new MP3 player, the cat is finally out of the bag via Creative Japan which released the Vision: M's picture and specifications on its site. And that's ahead of the planned Thursday global announcement in Piccadilly, London. We doubt the Europeans would be pleased to have the thunder stolen from them by their Japanese compatriots.
The Creative Zen Vision: M is a refreshing take on the original Zen Vision and, judging by its specs, we think that at least for Creative the war against Apple is not over just yet. It has a more gorgeous screen and it has enough video codec support to satisfy even the most ardent of mobile movie connoisseurs. The Singapore-based company is apparently dead set on going against the iPod video this Christmas season, and from the look of things, the Vision: M is set to be Creative's killer product for 2005.
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iPod pedal power
Edvarcl Heng | Dec 07, 2005
Mark was bored. Mark was pissed. Mark got his iPod a power source. Yeap, folks, that's what Mister Hoekstra from the Netherlands decided to do in his spare time… upgrade his bike. *Ducks a hail of old iPod covers. All right already. The Dutch geek upgraded his iPod with a bicycle dynamo charger. Okay? Macheads… sheesh.
If you think sporting a charge icon on your iPod is going to help you pick up that hot chick at the Apple helpdesk, by all means, go for it. After all, life's random. However, shuffling a bike into an Apple store certainly doesn’t count as one of life's happy little accidents.
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R.I.P: Grateful Dead exorcised download controversy
Edvarcl Heng | Dec 05, 2005
Recently, fans of the Grateful Dead (GD) seemed to think that corporate greed has befouled their favorite "undead" band. Un-Grateful fans cried foul and heaped abuse on the band for wanting to put a price on its once free concert recordings. Now that sounds like corporate vampirism.
Things culminated into an online petition that promised a boycott for all things GD. In a healthy capitalist music industry, bad press and bad sales just add up to a giant wooden stake pointing at the heart of profitability. And GD must have turned a wraithlike shade when it realized there were a thousand hammer-wielding fans hankering to do the deadly deed. Naturally, the band reversed its decision.
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