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So – after the dust has settled, here is my impression of the thing:

Yes, it is an iPod touch on steroids and that is the perfect thing for it to be. It is not for replacing your laptop or your phone. It is simply a media delivery device with some extra computing power.

Right now, I am not its target market. My mom is. I gave her an iPod touch and she loves it. She’ll check her email from the living room, play some games, etc. Giving her a larger platform to do so on is going to thrill her. It can turn into a digital picture frame? Perfect! Electronic photo album that she can hand around to people and not drag out the laptop? Awesome! Color ebook reader? Sweet!

Yes, we the cognoscenti are picking it apart. With all the hype how could we not be disappointed by some aspect of it. And yes, Apple is famous for features driving revisions. I’ll bet they have a cameraPad already in the works, along with multitasking, just waiting for the better power consumption the new A5 chip will have next year.

Will I buy one? I don’t know. Definitely not right now. But I have a feeling the evolution of it, along with the new apps it is going to spur, will be pretty tempting…

tags: Apple Inc., iPad, Technology/Internet

So I am trying out this app, Sleep Cycle for the iPhone.

It claims that it can sense your sleep patterns from your motion in bed, and after calibrating over a few days, wake you up within a half hour time frame when you are sleeping the lightest, therefore giving you the best wake experience.

Last night was the first night, and as such, it waited until the end of the half hour period. I had actually woken up 10 minutes prior.

The chart it produced was fairly right on. I was in and out of sleep early in the night and wide awake at 2am. Not sure if this app can address those issues, but any edge I can get on sleep, I’ll take it.

I’ll let it go for a few days and update with the progress.

tags: iphone, Sleep

Let’s see… a track with a French chick singing? Check. A Yeah Yeah Yeahs remix? Check. Some mashups? Check. A Dunproofin’ track? Check. Yep, all the hallmarks of another mixtape.  Just some of the tracks that I’ve been loving lately. A little something extra at the end.

1. Homerun (Dabo “on the beach” Remix) – Man & Man
2. Seventeen (The Glass Remix) – Casxio
3. Earthquake (Treasure Fingers’ Epicwave Remix) – Little Boots
4. Comme Ci Comme Ça (The Twelves Remix) – Terry Poison
5. Honey Trap (Le Matos Remix) – We Have Band
6. Like A Player (fourthrock edit) – Lorenz Rhode
7. Hello Dust – dadahack ft. Hannah Robinson
8. 4h30 – Danger
9. Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. Sex Diary (Kings of Leon vs. Yazoo) – Divide and Kreate
11. Bedroom Shotgun – Suck Shaft
12. Zzzz (ZZ Top vs. Miss Napalm & 4Kuba) – Dunproofin’
13. Our Time (Kap10Kurt Remix) – Ocelot

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tags: mashup, mixtape, music, Remix albums, shiny

tags: mischief, plans, status, update

tags: 99 problems, chart

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And thus begins my attempt to send more content to my blog instead of the whirlpool of Twitter or the cesspools of Spicealley.  I’m trying to define a separation for what kinds of “content” I generate on my various digital haunts. Oh, sure the massively cross-linked auto-update plugins will shovel this crap around to various places, but I think if I can develop the right mindset, I can use this thing for more creative purposes than just Achewood comics and links to my latest mixes.

We’ll see. After all, it’s only January 4th after a crazy New Year’s Four Day Weekend. My mind and body are still yelling “Payback’s a bitch” at me.

tags: Achewood, New Year's Day