Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category

Unlocked iPhone Available to Entire EU

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

There have been a number of US sites reporting that when the iPhone goes on sale in France, it'll be available in both locked-to-Orange and unlocked versions. The unlocked version will apparently cost more than the locked version. This means two things: 1) The phone is being subsidised, like most phone. It's ...

CD Baby’s Fantastic Shipping Notification

Friday, March 30th, 2007

I just recieved the obligatory "we've shipped your item" from [cdbaby.com](http://cdbaby.com). I've gotten thousands of these, but this is the first one that ever made me laugh out loud: >Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with >sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. >A team of ...

Twitter

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

I've signed up to twitter, mostly because I'm a shameless follower. But hey, maybe there'll be a prize... http://twitter.com/melevittfl

Report DVD Ripping Questions as TOS Violations on Apple Forums

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Apple is about to release a new product, the AppleTV, that lets you watch movies and TV shows purchased from the iTunes Store on your television. Just like the iPod and CDs, most people already have a number of movies on DVD that they won't want to buy again through ...

Ombudsman In Nynex

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Cory Doctorow wrote an article for Information Week where he describes the [trouble his girlfriend had getting her laptop fixed](http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197801024). He writes "I posted Alice's story to Boing Boing, the popular Weblog I co-edit, where it was seen by hundreds of thousands of potential Sony customers. By close of business, her ...