Sven LL Rafferty

Some MP3 players, or Digital Audio Players (DAP), are getting mighty small. Small enough to throw around your neck and wear it as if it were jewelry. That’s the thought and idea of the latest Pebble player. It fits easily in the palm of your hand even though it still has a [...]

Sony isn’t taking Apple’s memory deal with Samsung too lightly and has just inked a $1.8 billion deal with Samsung to grab a fifth of all memory Samsung makes for Sony’s PSP. Sony expects to sale 20 million PSP’s next year and will need lots of memory for those units. Sony can not [...]

Give it a year or two and the iPod will beat out the Sony Walkman TPS-L2 released in 1979 as the greatest gadget of the last 50 years. PC World’s Top 50 Gadgets of the Last 50 Years is a trip down memory lane for me as I can remember nearly all of them. [...]

Looks like legal downloads took a 50% increase in downloads over the Christmas weekend according to Hitwise. With an increase of 15% in holiday downloads from last year, Apple and other services such as Napster, enjoyed some ho ho jolliness as well. With the iPod as the number one item on Christmas lists [...]

So you’ve got an iPod. You’ve got a few TV’s, too. You wished this digital hub Jobs keeps ranting about would include using your iPod on the TV, huh? Dude, don’t wait for Steve, get Griffin to help you out. Yes, Griffin as in the company that makes Total Remote. [...]

Hey, Apple DOES have iPod shuffles in the 1GB size! It’s not brand new, but it is at least tested for functionality before Apple sends it to you. And at $50 off the regular price, you can’t really go wrong, can you? If you’re looking for other iPod’s at discounted prices, those [...]

Hey, didn’t get that iPod video for Christmas? Got some cheap-o player with a Nike swoosh on it instead? Dude, don’t worry, the end of Christmas is all about returning your crap you didn’t want (sans receipt of course) and getting what you do want with the money you get back!
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Tis the season to be jolly and Sony I guess realizes after some excess egg nog with a bit of sushi (hey, it’s a Japanese company,) that its ATRAC thing just ain’t going to catch on. Soooo, Sony has released firmware update 2.01 for the NW-A1000/1200/3000 digital audio players. This update allows user [...]

Rumors have been buzzing for the past week that CES would be the release platform for Verizon and Palm for the new Treo 700w and now there is more information– with pricing — that says this indeed is the case. The feature list is to include 128MB Flash/60MB RAM, EV-DO and 1xRTT, 240×240 color [...]

Now that nearly every moviegoer has a cell phone, things can be a bit disturbing with various people on their phone during a movie. While most understand that this is rude, others pull a 2 Pac and thug-for-life it as they chat away to their brotha on their Nokia N90. Joy. Homie [...]

Those South Korean’s. They just love mobile phones and pretty much all of the country owns at least one. With three-quarters of the nation possessing a mobile phone, prosecutors will be trashing the old paper notification system and opting for using the modern, and quicker, Small Message System of the phones their “clients” [...]

MobHappy has put together a list of some of the best articles of 2005 posted on our favorite little thing, all things mobile. The list isn’t your average one of things mobile but also how mobile things effected lives of all sorts of people including, “an Amazonian tribe who can’t count past two.” [...]

Wonder why those 1GB shuffles are all out until January? Interesting timing, no? I’d say you can expect some new shuffles from Macworld as well a bump up in storage, too. There’ll probably be a 2GB shuffle along with the 1GB. I’d be surprised if the 512MB sticks around. As [...]

Hey, bummed you can’t get an iPod shuffle in the 1GB format? Not really into the iPod craze? Or you’re just looking for something different? Well the Philips GoGear HDD6330 Jukebox may be just that. It’s bathed in a really gorgeous black skin and has all the common buttons of [...]

The final moments of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen are playing in your ears and then — BAM! — the iPod shuts off due to a dead battery. You’re on the New York subway and too busy making sure you don’t get mugged for your iPod to look for a power source [...]

One the most powerful features of Windows Mobile (or Pocket PC…or Windows CE) is the Today screen. You can go nuts with adding a bunch of plug-ins to the point of making it useless but if you’re careful not to abuse the screen, you’ll be mighty productive. VJPhoneTools understands that concept and has [...]

Sirius is doing everything it can to beat out XM. In just a few weeks, Howard Stern, it’s largest investment into the nationwide service since slapping some satellites into Earth’s orbit, will be chanting uninhabited choruses to the 1 million Sirius listeners. But that’s still 2 million less then XM and thus Sirius [...]

I’m always sucked in by space games. I loved Galaxian — and still do — as a kid. I could spend hours playing that game. Xevious rocked, too. Yes, I know, I’m dating myself, sorry. Well let me catch up with the times and introduce you to Plazmoids.
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You know, it’s just not enough to be tethered to your gaming console when at home. No, there needs to be more pull on your life from that Xbox of yours. Say if you’re out at the movies with your date and King Kong is just about half way through it’s three plus [...]

If you’re a fan of great software then you know about Resco. Its software is top of the crop and I use nothing else for file management then Resco File Explorer 2005 on my Pocket PC and Explorer on my Tungsten T3. Well, to celebrate the new year, in the spirit of Christmas, [...]