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Vox Mobile Publish client

Vox has launched an application to be able to post directly from your mobile. The application is available for Windows Mobile, Palm and Symbian.
The page is kind of hided on the Vox page, but here it the info and download page.

Publish with the Vox Mobile Smartphone Application

Vox Mobile is a free application for your Windows Mobile, Series 60 (Nokia), or Palm OS smartphone that allows you to post photos and videos to your Vox blog while on the go.

• Automatically add new photos and videos to Vox when you capture them.
• Categorize your content with an easy to use tag picker – or have posts automatically tagged when you create them, instead of entering them each time.
• Set the privacy level of your posts to Private, Friends, Family, Friends & Family, or Public.
• Send your photos and videos to Vox as a blog entry, or straight into your Vox library.
• And much more!

have installed the app on my Nokia N95 and it works remarkably well!. Way to go Vox!

Typepad Mobile v1.01 now with S60v3

Typepad Mobile has been update lately (March 6th, 2007), the latest version is v1.01. For more info check out the FAQ page on Typepad.
To download browse with your mobile to http://get.typepad.com.

Not sure which models exactly have been added since the v1.00 version, but for sure it are the S60v3 models like the N80 and N93.

Full list is as follows:

• Palm OS 5 (treo)
• Windows Mobile 5 (Cingular 2125, T-Mobile SDA, Motorola Q, etc.)
• Series 60 (Nokia 6600, 7610, 3250, 6680, N70, N80, N93, etc.)

Youtube blocked :(, the bitch did it!

Danielle C. had sex on the beach with her lover. Someone taped it on video and the internet society put that video on youtube. Now the youtube site is off air for the whole of Brazil until google/youtube have resolved the problem. This per order of the court, the bastards.

Windows Live Messenger Mobile Message

 

The Windows Live Messenger for S60v3.0 devices notifies you that the sea lines from China/Japan to the outside world are of damaged (due to an earthquake in the south China sea about a dozen cables are broken and need to be fixed, 90% of the internet connectivity to China and 70% of the connectivity to Japan is out of order today). Nice feature from this little application.

UPDATE: Kraftwerk's old vocoder sells for $12,500

As massive Kraftwerk fan I eagerly followed this auction last week on Ebay. Basically an auction for 2 19" racks with some analog stuff soldered in it. Nothing fancy, most likely not even working anymore (main reason why it is in fact on sale I guess), just an artifact which shoul dbe in a museum. Hope it will and one day in their, since the somesounds on Autobahn were made on this!
So it went for 4 times the starting bid. Guys most have some money, or a passion ;)

UPDATE: Kraftwerk's old vocoder sells for $12,500

So, the Kraftwerk vocoder auction finished yesterday, and 60,000 hits on the auction page, it sold for $12,500 to a bidder from London called mjgooner. Presumably he's an Arsenal fan, and recently bought a nice-looking 1993 Alfa Romeo Spider, and a Bob Moog doll. If you're out there, mjgooner, get in touch and let us know how it feels!

[via Music thing]

Start with the user experience & Tune the hardware to the software

from the blog of Charlie I took the comments below:
especially these two are outstanding of the others:
- Start with the user experience
- Tune the hardware to the software

If all companies would design their products this way........

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Notes from an interview with Jack Scully, comments on Steve Jobs, product creation, and Apple's 30th anniversary

As part of a series of interviews of Apple notables for the 30th anniversary of Apple, Jack Scully, the CEO who took over from Jobs, made some great comments about Jobs' way of building products.

He mentioned that Jobs had some strong first principles in creating a product:
- Start with the user experience
- Tune the hardware to the software
- Have unparralleled industrial design
- Market a tech product as a fashion statement
- Look at the complete system and building the ecosystems around it (as Apple did with desktop publishing and the iPod)
- Clarify and simplify complex business models
- Attract outstanding people

Scully continues to say that there were of course some personal attributes that allowed Jobs to pull off the things he did. For example, Jobs constantly sees things in a simpler way, he makes no compromises, he is willing to think differently how business can be built.

Another interesting comment by Scully, that I try to distill here is that Jobs is at his best when focused on right brain - creativity, art, music, etc. Jobs once called the Mac 'a bicycle for the mind.'

Interesting perspective here.

[via Cognections Lifeblog]

Lets talk (or compute)

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During preparation of an event had the opportunity to take this photo of 23 Nokia Nseries computers (or phones as they used to be called)

Coming Zune

OK, so this seems to be the Microsoft answer to the Apple iPod monopoly. ZUNE
As we could expect the device is not much different from the Apple version. Form factor and especially the required buttons are kind of default set. Ofcourse one thing which is missing are the button ctrl-al-del. Reminds me of images of Windows CE mobiles years back which showed these 3 buttons prominantely present in order to reset the device.
On the posivitive side I read it might have WLAN and some sharing and community aspects. These would be great!

Let's see what's coming to us to next view months

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Zune: what we know, think we know, and don't yet know

 

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Ok, so we got off the horn with Microsoft just a few minutes ago and realized that making heads or tails of all this Zune stuff is probably driving some of you crazy . (We know others are probably just getting driven crazy by all the posts we've been writing about it. Sorry, it's our job!) So here's what we know for sure, think we know according to inside sources (i.e. yet unconfirmed information), and what we don't yet know at all about the Zune.

What we know (for sure)

• Zune is the name of the project, the brand, and the device.


• The first Zune device will be launched this year, with more devices to come in 2007.


• The Zune brand encompasses not only the device, but the software that will drive it, as well as a music, movie, and media service the Zune device family will use for acquiring, sharing, and discovery of said media. Music will be the first angle of service that is launched, "connected entertainment" being the ultimate goal.


• The Zune media service will heavily leverage community aspects and recommendation; emphasis is being placed on using Zune to discover new artists, media, etc.


• The Zune media device will be drive-based, and have WiFi.


• The Zune brand is intended to be an entirely vertically integrated end-to-end solution, not unlike the iPod / iTunes / iTunes Music Store triumvirate.


• The service and device will not be PlaysForSure compliant, meaning you will not be able to use your Zune player with Napster or Vongo, for example. This will be an entirely new system. Microsoft will continue to support and develop for their PlaysForSure initiative, but all things PlaysForSure are handled by two entirely separate division that will not have any crossover.


• Zune is under Microsoft's new Entertainment & Devices Division, and is headed by, among others, Robbie Bach, J Allard (Corporate Vice President and Chief XNA Architect), and Bryan Lee (Corporate Vice President and CFO, Entertainment and Devices Division), which accounts for the division of this project from the rest of Microsoft, similar to how the Xbox project was also strictly separated.


• The logo we had is, of course, real.


• Microsoft's launched the Zune's viral marketing site. [Thanks, bv]

What we think we know (and are pretty sure of)

• They'll be showing off the device by the end of next month, and will aim for a November release.


• Microsoft will buy your way out of iTunes in order to convert you to a Zune user.


• The Zune will come in multiple colors.


• Pyxis is the codename for their nano competitor which would also include video capabilities; Alexandria is the codename for the software that powers the Zune experience.


• A Microsoft portable gaming system is in the works, and will be a part of the Zune family. This device should have Xbox Live Anywhere integration. This may or may not be an Xbox co-branded portable, but is probably going to be the portable gaming / media device we've been hearing about for years.


• Microsoft's ad campaign will include a Super Bowl commercial.


• The Zune will have a bevy of accessories at launch; it'll probably be cheaper for accessory makers to develop for the Zune port than pay the Made For iPod tax.

What we don't yet know

• Whether the Zune media service will offer the same kind of all-you-can-eat subscription media services as PlaysForSure media services like Napster and Vongo. Supposedly subscription will be offered, but downplayed in favor of song purchase (which is the opposite of most PlaysForSure services).


• Whether you'll actually only be limited to sharing with up to 10 people nearby, as rumored, and that they won't get the protected files, but will "bookmark" them for later purchase.


• Exact device specifications for the first Zune device, as well as its price (though we hear it could be as much as $399).


• Whether it'll include XM and/or Sirius service as rumored (we doubt it).

Let the analysis begin!

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[via Engadget]

Zypad wrist computer

This link in the Dutch Magazine Elektuur shows a futuristic wrist-computer, the Zypad.

Via the dutch reseller BESD it leads to an Italian manufacturer called Eurotech. Here is the product page and spec sheet

Available in Windows CE or Linux version it houses a small touch screen with pen, WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS, mini-SD memory slot and much much more. Last but not least a "tilt and dead reckoning system" (if user is not moving for long time a beacon signal can be send out to a server in order to alert somethin gis wrong). Look for yourself on the spec sheet, pretty impressive nifty little machine.

Maybe something for Kraftwerk to use and show on one of their upcoming shows??
or do we stick to the thought of "beam me up Scotty!"

Flickr Uploader for Nokia N72 (and N70, N90)

WoW! Since I am still eagerly awaiting to get and use a N73 or N93 this is THE opportunity to experience the Nokia Online Sharing tool. Installed it right away on my N90. Had to install both the .sis as well as the .cfg in my N90, but than it worked! Uploaded to my flick page.

But web2.0 world is'n't web2.0 world if you cant mess around with the settings. So why not use the ATOM protocol to use this upload tool for my typepad as well? Settings entered I could straight post to my typepad atom feed, without using my beloved Lifeblog application. neat ain't?

Flickr Uploader for Nokia N72 (and N70, N90)

Nokia has released the Flickr uploading tool for the Nokia N72. Although unsupported, it also works on the Nokia N70 and N90. The tool allows you upload images to Flickr from  both the built-in Camera and Gallery applications. You can configure the upload to send the original or a medium or small-sized image.

[via All About Symbian - News]