Ah, the iPod classic; the neglected member of the iPod family. It bears no clip, it doesn’t run apps, and it’s the only iPod that still uses a fragile, spinning hard drive. But it’s still chugging along like that old Volvo that won’t give up after 150,000 miles. A direct descendant of the very first...
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Owners of Jawbone’s popular Bluetooth Jambox speaker now have an additional way to listen to their music, as the company unveiled a free software update on Tuesday night for the speaker that includes a plug-in called LiveAudio. With LiveAudio, Jawbone aims to recreate the experience of hearing your ...
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If a user adds pirated music to an online cloud locker service, is the provider responsible? No, according to a decision made in a New York federal court on Monday.
In the ruling, District Judge William H. Pauley...
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Software seller Kagi is discontinuing the unauthorized Lion updater that it has been selling for Techspansion’s VisualHub video converter. In an email (and accompanying forum post) to Macworld , Kagi CEO Kee Nethery said that Techspansion would be producing its own free updater, which will be avail...
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Young children, as all parents know, love to watch the same shows over and over…and over. It’s exactly this love of repetition that makes Netflix a good deal for families. Rather than buy or rent individual kid shows, it’s easier (and cheaper) to sign up for Netflix’s streaming service and let the y...
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Kagi, a popular payment processor for independent software developers, recently began selling a $5 Lion-compatibility patch for the discontinued-in-2008 VisualHub video converter that the original software’s developer says he didn’t authorize—and isn’t getting paid for. Kagi defends the move, arguin...
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When Macworld first reviewed Zediva, we cheered its innovative approach—streaming actual DVDs via DVD players that the viewer controls—but worried about how the movie studios would react to Zediva’s clever but controversial take on the law. Unsurprisingly, the answer was “not well”: On Thursday, t...
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