I want new headphones [updated]

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I am looking into getting some new headphones–upgrading from the Apple In-Ear headphones. I want another pair of in-ear, because I can’t tote around something big. Anyone have a suggestion? Where can I go to hear different pairs? I am thinking about the Shure E3C’s.

I listen to music off my laptop for several hours a day while working, then time with the iPod. I figure the money will be well spent.

Update: If you haven’t done so already, check out the comments. Some real great stuff. I think I’ll place an order for a pair of Etymotic ER6i’s once Jeanne has moved through.

Blogs for sale

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Jeremy sold Ensight. Sweet! He says it was more than $4K like some are saying (higher than $15,000 it seems). I was hoping MobileTracker would be the first big blog sale, but alas.

Both the traffic and revenue (especially revenue) are significantly higher for MT, so the price would be quite a bit more, but I may find a buyer one of these days.

Great work J!

Mobile DrudgeReport

Filed under: Mobile Phones | 4 Comments

DrudgeI spent about 20 minutes today and whipped up a mobile version of the DrudgeReport. I have been reading a lot of news via Opera Mobile lately, but Matt’s site is really bad for mobile viewing–the three columns get made into one huge one with big chunks of links that don’t change (the news sources/columnists). Great to have for regular browser viewing, but not so cool on a mobile device.

It’s still a work in progress, but I’d love to get some feedback. Basically it combines the header and three columns to make one column of pure rapidly changing content. The images can be quite large in file size though, so it still takes a few seconds to load.

You’ll need an HTML equipped browser on your phone/PDA. The default browsers should work, but I’ve only tested it on Opera. If I get motivated I could make a WAP version (anyone want one?). Most browsers have an option to load images or not, so an image-free feature wouldn’t be too hot.

Since this version clips out his ads, make sure and click doubletime when you’re visiting from a desktop browser.

Shout out

Filed under: Weblogs | 1 Comment

I’ve been putting this off for a few days because I couldn’t think of a suave way to do it. Larry’s got a blog. He’s proud-to-the-point-of-insanity about it, which is a good thing unless you just got the 2342th email from him concerning it (just kidding Larry!).

A little about Larry (I don’t think all these details are all on his weblog yet):

He’s the daytime editor at MacMinute, which I used to read.

He’s my partner in crime at CarbWire, which I still do read.

I have seen this kid in his underwear. And read MacNN.

I stayed at his house in middle-of-nothing Ohio this summer.

This is his backyard.

Since he’s online all day for MacMinute, his linkblog is pretty interesting

So go read.

TypePad slowing down

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Anyone else seeing TypePad take a bit longer to post lately (last month or two)? I know there are a few million posts in the DB to clutter the works up, but it’s a good 15-20 seconds for me to get a post all the way up. I have been thinking for quite some time about dumping TypePad, moving to JonGales.com and setting up something a lot different (maybe just a link blog?). This might speed up that vision.

Online ad spending at record levels

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In today’s Wall Street Journal is a bit of good news [paid subscription req.] for cats like me:

“Online-advertising revenue was a record $2.37 billion in the second quarter as the industry continued to push past the levels reached during the dot-com boom, according to a trade group.”

Viva la boom 2.0!

Sidekick II ships

The long awaited Sidekick II is now shipping. I have yet to play with this device, review units are hard to come by (in hot demand). I think I’d like it though, I have been getting in a lot of AIM time on my phone in the past few weeks. I also bought Opera Mobile the other day, so web browsing is now a joy.

I wonder what these things will go for outside of contract…

The new FireFox

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I’m a full time FireFox user, but I am going to quit using the popular preview release because I cannot get the tabs feature to work with any regularity. Tabs are a must for me, though the problem is probably just something with my system. The RSS feature is pretty slick, nearly simple enough for everyone to get some use out of.

What’s your uptime?

Filed under: Apple | 6 Comments

If this gets interesting, I’ll turn it into a MacMerc.com post. To check your uptime, open the Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type uptime. Hit return and then copy and paste what you get into the comments.

15:26 up 38 days, 22:47, 2 users, load averages: 1.02 1.32 1.34

I have a 1.25 GHz Powerbook with 768 MB of RAM.

Update: The question is now up at MacMerc.

NHL over?

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Will “The Cup” stay in Tampa forever? The NHL might be going away. Just when I start getting into hockey too.