SqueezeCommander – Your Android is a Squeezebox-Remote too!

switching to Google Nexus One was easy, once I discovered SqueezeCommander to remote-control my SqueezeBox. For EUR 3,- it does everything iPeng does on the iPhone, including support for SqueezeBox apps & multi-player & -server-support. searching large libraries of music seems faster than on the iPhone. but the best thing: it can download single tracks [...]

iPeng – your iPhone is a Squeezebox remote-control

as an avid Squeezebox-user, I’ve no idea how I could have missed this gem for so long: iPeng lets you use our iPhone to control your Squeezbox (or boxes, if you’ve several spread across the house). hands down the best way to browse a large local music-library or subscription-services napster & rhapsody [which of course [...]

Best & Worst Gadget 2009

this post is part of Ritchie’s blog carneval ‘Best & Worst Gadget 2008′ (or ‘Bestes / übelstes Hardware Gadget 2008′, if you prefer german), which is about to end today – so if you want to join, better hurry up!
in 2008 I finally settled to buy a new TV-set for my living room. not  being [...]

Ultramobile MacBook in 2008?

Despite all the (justified) grieve on breaking MacBook(Pro)s & crashing Leopards, this rumoured, ultramobile, flash-based sub-notebook would probably make me pull out my credit-card immediately… all rumours collected at Mahalo.

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more gadgets: Nokia N810

another long expected, hot gadget got its official release yesterday: the Nokia N810 internet tablet, successor to the N770&N800 series. the most fundamental change of course is the folding keyboard, which together with the mozilla-browser (including flash-support) should offer a better & more complete mobile web-experience than lets say the iPhone. that is, if you’re [...]

finally available: chumby

I’ve first written about chumby over a year ago, and now it’s finally available (although the store is currently invite-only for folks who have pre-registered, which as it happens I have ). chumby is a hackable gadget featuring WiFi, USB-ports, integrated speakers, squeeze- & acceleration-sensors and a 3.5″ LCD-display. users may choose from [...]

Pandora: back in charts!

music recommendation has seemingly been dominated by Last.fm recently (new widgets, video-content, mashups), while competitor & innovator Pandora was less lucky being forced to shut down services outside the US. at yesterdays press-event at the Museum of Modern Art (SF), Pandora  reported back with an impressive array of announcements, including…

  …a much needed revamp of [...]

more rumours on Google Phone

Simeon Simeonov has more details on a possible Google Phone (or Gphone). sources remain undisclosed, so its unclear if his claims on the Gphone’s vector-based presentation layer, the size of Googles product team and the planned distribution (involving multiple carriers in fulfillment of Google’s own marketing) can stand up to reality.

how-to bypass Zune’s DRMed WiFi

in what can be described as a precautious concession to the music industry, Microsoft decided to cripple the most interesting feature that might have put their recently released Zune media-player atop of Apples predominant iPod series: the ability to share tracks with other Zune-users over WiFi is restricted to DRMed songs purchased/rented from zune.net. transmitted [...]