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Spotify coming to the iPhone

Posted: September 17, 2009 in internet, iPhone, Mac, music, Technology
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The next killer app for the iPhone? My bet is the Spotify music streaming service. It’s already available for the iPhone in Europe and will likely be part of Spotify’s rollout in the US later this year. I’m already a big fan of the service which basically gives you fast and great-sounding access to tons of music “in the cloud”. You can’t buy or download the music but as long as you have a net connection, a huge jukebox is available for you to choose from. In Europe you can use it for free (and put up with ads) or pay about $15 a month for the premium ad-free service [you can access the free version from here by using a VPN service like My Private Network]. If it saves you two impulse buys of dodgy albums a month on iTunes, then it pays for itself pretty quickly. As more leading artists put up material on Spotify, it could very well threaten iTunes as the leading digital music delivery system. Having a global jukebox available on the fly on the iPhone will be pretty damn cool.

Happy 40th, Internet

Posted: September 2, 2009 in internet, Technology
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Forty years ago today, on September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers sent data to each other via a 15-foot grey cable. From those humble beginnings, the internet was born and the rest is history.

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Welcome to the dark side

Posted: September 2, 2009 in Google, internet, Technology
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Google’s Gmail Fail Casts Dark Cloud on ‘Cloud Computing’ – PC World

PC World echoed some of my thoughts in this piece today. “If this latest Gmail failure has proven anything, it’s that local hard
drives should always be an important part of any computer. Maybe one
day you won’t need to have massive storage space to keep a copy of
absolutely every photo, video or document you own, but vital data like
e-mail will still need a little storage space offline no matter how
reliable companies claim their cloud solutions are.”

As mentioned in the piece, it’s a good idea to at least have GMail’s offline service installed so you can access your most recent e-mails when there’s no connection. Better yet, buy the excellent Mailplane, which puts GMail on your desktop rather than your browser and also gives you offline access to recent messages.

One thing I take issue with, though, is that PC World, like most news sources are still stating that GMail was out for “two hours”. This is bull – I was not able to receive mail or access my Contacts for at least 36 hours.

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