Crash and burn.
Long time, no see, blog!
I’ve been very busy with school the last 2 months or so. I’m about to go into exams, and I’ll be busy throughout the Christmas holiday, so it’ll probably be a very long time before another one appears.
Suffice it to say I’ve been maintaining my manual podcast downloading habits on the iPod Touch, and neglecting my actual music. However, there have been several developments on that subject worth noting.
First, the new 2.2 firmware for the iPhone/iPod Touch has baked in podcast support. However, without the ability to delete them, this is useless, as I don’t have iTunes, and I never plug it into the computer unless I want to charge it. I’m still going to upgrade, as I’m running 2.0 still, and it’s beginning to feel very sluggish.
Second, as you may have heard, Apple DMCA’d the project, but the EFF has raised their mighty finger to waggle it in Apple’s face, in a move that is made of win and freedom. I’m hopeful that Fairplay will be cracked before this gets resolved. Also, it looks like is getting closer to a release, and with the two working, the iPod might actually function as an … iPod. Regardless, I think this will be the last thing I will ever buy from Apple, as their hijinks are just getting ridiculous.
Third, there is a great that has hit the intarwebs (and highly dugg) that gives me all kinds of hope for the future.
Finally in some non-iPod material, I am planning to try out the . 32-bit flash on Xubuntu is quite unstable, as I have to restart Firefox fairly regularly. But apparently the alpha is already superior. I just need time to set it up.
Thats whats going on right now that’s got my interest, and I will post again later with impressions of iPhone OS 2.2 and 64-bit Flash 10. Until then, I’ll get back under the rock I’ve been hiding under.