Doxie Go. This months toy. (Taken with instagram)
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Nice to see the love reciprocated.
The numbers on the back of the City shirts on Saturday will also feature another link to Manchester and the city’s past. The historic Manchester coat of arms will feature at the base of each number, a discreet nod to a tradition of using the Manchester emblem whenever City play at Wembley.
Who Runs Twitter?
What kind of CEO isn’t in charge of the product? Especially a company with exactly one product.
Nobody “opens” the parts of their business that make them money, maintain barriers to competitive entry, or otherwise provide significant competitive advantages.
AirPlay and AV Receivers
The announcement of AirPlay gave me hope. But 7 months later the current landscape is still rather grim. The only AV receivers that support AirPlay are well into the upper-mid and high end of the market. There is the Marantz SR7005 (£1,100+), the Pioneer VSX-1021 (£699) as well as models from Philips and Denon. While fine devices I am not sure I can justify that kind of outlay for the one additional feature my Onkyo TXSR308 currently lacks.
However, I think I have just come across an excellent compromise. For years I have raved about the AirPort Express and how it could turn any set of speakers “wireless”. Back at uni when my audio needs were slightly more primitive I was more than happy with the APX hooked up to my Harman Kardon Soundsticks, and sending audio to it via AirTunes or the AirFoil plugin from the folks at Rogue Amoeba.
My APX had been gathering dust since I bought my Onkyo but after another search for AirPlay enabled receivers I realised a lower budget solution was sitting right in front of me all this time. A simple 3.5mm <> RCA (or Optical) cable could connect the Express to any of the receivers audio inputs. I am now able to pipe *any* audio from any application on any of my devices to the receiver.
It is still a bit of a hack in that it requires an intermediary device to get the audio from the device to the speakers, but other than that it is a seamless experience. And it is much more ideal than using the Apple TV or Xbox 360 as the middle man. Neither of which have the greatest UI for navigating large music libraries, and require a change in video input.
Disney/Pixar has released retro posters to promote Cars 2. Paris, France, Porto Corsa, Italy and Germany are all represented beautifully.
Source: cdn.stitchkingdom.com
Joshua Topolsky: This is my next project
They’re building for the web as it is now. From the perspective of a journalist who also happens to be a huge nerd, that’s a match made in heaven. SBN isn’t just another media company pushing news out — it’s a testbed and lab for some of the newest and most interesting publishing tools I’ve ever seen. In short, I was blown away when I saw what kind of technology they’re using to get news on their front page and engage audiences, and even more blown away when I started talking to them about what could come next.
Source: joshuatopolsky
my shipment of Kirin arrived.
since 1983.
