This week in 2001, apple rolled out the first of the iPods. These powerful machines held a massive 5 Gigabytes, Count 'em! 5 Whopping Gigabytes! they ran on a massive hard drive, and had a short battery life. But hey! they played over 1000 songs! And, best of all, it kept them all organized with this nifty little application called iTunes!
Okay, I'll admit it, the first generation iPods were pretty lame. However, they did have several things that most other music players had. They had a hard drive, for one. This was huge, considering that it was probably the highest capacity hard drive of it's size at the time. It also did have a media managing app that did all of the managing for you. No other player had the sync capabilities that the iPod did (correct me if I'm wrong). it also had a spinning wheel for selections through menus, which I know that no-one else had. However, it did have one minor glitch. The hard drive seemed to give out on mine right after the warranty expired. Apple would be happy to fix it for a fine $200. I did not fix it, and so as forever doomed to experience the famous iPod "Hard drive click of Death!".
As far as technology goes, this platform is still supported. Apple is still selling refurbished ones on the Apple store, and it will still sync with the current version of iTunes. However, I would much rather have a new nano with a cideo camera or iPod touch with speakers and a tilt sensor. Wouldn't you?
All for now!
So, here was my problem. I was in school, and had to come up with a good way to take Two Column notes and somehow stay organized. In my yearly pledge to use next to no paper for creating documents, I turned to the digital world. I created a template for notes in InDesign, and saved it as a PDF. Thanks to OCR and Acrobat 9, I had myself a neat little form. However, creating a new file for notes every night seemed unweiledy, and I needed a way to keep it all organized. What was I to do?
For a while, I have been searching for a good desktop application to do everything that I do on the web. Well, after several weeks of searching, I finally found a solution to my dilemma. 
Wow. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven’t been locally backed up are gone. Apparently if you don’t turn off your Sidekick and make sure its battery doesn’t run out you can salvage what’s currently stored on the device, otherwise you’re out of luck: Microsoft/Danger is describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as “extremely low”.
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In august, the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia changed its editing policy. This new policy change concerns mostly biography pages on the site. Under the new policy, anonymous users will be able to edit these biography pages. However, these changes will not be visible to the general public until experts who were Wikipedia employees approved them. This change is supposed to make the site a more reliable source of information. People such as Jimmy Wales say that this change is itself an error. He says that the site will instead adopt a flagged protection protocol for a small number of pages. This plan is still under development, and will not go through as much of a change as previously thought. 
