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Itunes really sucks for fixing the tags and loading the album art. It doesn’t do the former at all and only does the latter after you’ve given Apple your credit card details. Yeah, fat chance.

Here’s the best method I found so far. It involves a couple of programs, the process is kinda tedious, but since iTunes insists on being a piece of sh…

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The best tagger that I’ve found is Musicbrainz Picard. It tags and fixes file automatically by either scanning the metadata and tries to find the metadata in its databases with the closes match, or it scans the content of the file and tries to find a set of metadata with a similar content signature. I think. It’s easy to use and finds almost all the right metadata. (more…)

SYDNEY-A 19 year old man in the suburb of Bella Vista has been charged with interfering with a crew member while in an aircraft(with a laser).

The helicopter was flying at about 6pm at an altitude of about 1600 feet, when a green laser allegedly targeted the crew. The crew members were “momentarily distracted and disoriented by the incident”, according to a New South Wales Police press release, but were uninjured and managed to identify a yard from which the light originated. The officers landed the helicopter nearby, and contacted local police who arrested the teen and confiscated a laser device. He was taken to Castle Hill police station, where he was interviewed and charged, before being released on bail. He is scheduled to face Hornsby Local Court on June 2

Wikinews - News South Wales Government

People seems to think that you can do this with a normal laser. There is no way a normal laser can be strong and coherent enough to hit planes a kilometer or so away. (more…)

For those who haven’t, check out the Engadget LiveBlog and Popular Mechanics LiveBlog of the Keynote from WWDC.

Apple showed many demos of programs that have been developed on the iPhone with the SDK, and they also introduced a service similar to Microsoft-exchange, but geared more towards the consumer than enterprise.

But what everyone was sitting on the edge of their seats for was details on the the new iPhone.

Image from Engadget

An iPhone with 3G and GPS for under $200? GPS makers, PDA makers, Smartphone makers, the Windows Mobile team, portable media player makers must all be shitting themselves. (more…)

Normally, I’d do an intro. However, I figure the contents of this are pretty obvious. Five mini articles about the top five geeky fashion items/accessories. These are the items that are so geeky and so awesome that people who aren’t geeks would seriously consider buying them. So without further Ado:

5. Rubik’s Cube Key Chain

Prove that you too have too much time on your hands… or on your keys for that matter.

The Hip: Just being able to solve these things impresses those that can’t. It’s an easy way to keep a constant source of awe in your bag. Plus, for that reason, chicks dig Rubik’s Cubes. You have no idea how many times solving a Rubik’s Cube on a date has ended well*. I know, logic defying. (more…)

Brina Lam from Gizmodo met Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell and inquired about the Ultra portable Laptop he was carrying. Dell was gracious enough to let Lam get some photos of the laptop.

bumped into Michael Dell at All Things D after his interview, and he was nice enough to show me this laptop that he was carrying that he said no one’s seen before. It’s a small form factor notebook, just like the Asus Eee and the HP 2133. He wouldn’t tell me what OS it’s running, or the pricing, but that it’s a low-cost notebook meant for developing countries, and I hope here. Maybe it’s Atom-powered. Who knows? But I do see three USB ports, a card reader, VGA out, Ethernet, and that red candy shell.

Gizmodo

The laptop looks pretty cool, hopefully it’s got a similar sized keyboard to the HP Mini Note, and runs on the Intel Atom processor. (more…)

Again i have gone off track with something that has caught my eye and my hippocket. The Sony Errison X1 is touted as the phone people are going ga ga for after the iphone. The X1 is Sony Errison’s up coming flagship model of Sony’s new Xperia range. It was first presented in the World Mobile Congress last february and has recently been announced to be realesed in Q2 2008. The new Xperia range will be a line of smartphones catering for the elite buisness world.

The reason why the X1 is recieving so much hype is that is packed full of features and new concepts by Sony. The phone which has been designed in conjuction with HTC is the first device to be powered by Windows Mobile by sony. The X1 like the Iphone is a jam packed smartphone sporting:

3″ 800×480 touchscreen, qwerty keyboard, 3G phone with video talk, push email, 3.2mp Camera with 30fps video, Bluetooth (A2DP), aissted GPS, WIFI, microSD expansion and Windows Mobile 6.1 on top of Sony’s Xperia panel

From the list you can easily tell where it get’s it’s hype from sporting nearly every modern phone functions. The X1 is basicaly a windows mobile smartphone tweaked by Sony. (more…)

Anyone who has a large music collection, has a lot of music with tags, wrong tags, or a lack of tags tries to fix that. So what do you do? You try to find the right tags for the music on the internet, right?

iTunes makes this a massive pain in the ass. As in, fucking yourself up the ass with a spiked pike painful.

There’s no option to get iTunes to auto-tag your music, well actually I don’t know, but you definitely need an iTunes account to get the album art working (more…)

Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.

Vodafone

Finally, the rest of the world can get their hands on the iPhone. Since the 3G version will probably be rolling out in the Us some time in June, will it be an international release? Probably not, but one can still hope. What Vodaphone doesn’t mention is whether or not it will sell the iPhone unlocked. It will probably depend on the legislation in the countries it’s releasing it, but considering how Apple can make carriers pay for the privilege of selling the iPhone, and Vodaphone probably did pay for the privilege, it’s unlikely to be sold unlocked in most of the countries, either that or Vodaphone is gonna make it a hassel to unlock it.

Meh, there’s always eEbay.

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The German arm of mobile services giant Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) donned the crown of concerned corporate citizen and persuaded a Hamburg court to act against competitor Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) for selling locked versions of the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone. The court granted a temporary injunction against Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile unit and its practice of selling the iPhone in combination with a two-year contract.

The Motley Fool

Hmm, you know I don’t think Vodaphone can sell the iPhone locked without looking reeeally (more…)

A friendly neighborhood AT&T employee forwarded us a purported memo for AT&T retail store employees that could provide a rather telling clue about the next-gen iPhone’s release date this summer if it proves true. A similar memo went out last year around this time requesting that employees not take any vacations between June 15 and July 15, and this year those dates are June 15 and July 12 — which seems suspiciously early, but that’s what the man says. The memo cites “an exciting Summer Promotional Launch,” which we’re guessing doesn’t refer to some new Motorola flip phone. Also telling is the fact that employees might be able to take some vacations later within that window when things die down a bit, which seems to imply that Apple could be aiming for a launch date right around the iPhone’s one year anniversary of June 29th. How romantic.

Engadget >Leaked AT&T memo points to 3G iPhone release in late June?

Hmm, if AT&T asks employees(lol @ the spiderman reference) not to take vacations, it must mean that there will be an event that require all/most of the employees to be executed successfully. That really sounds like an new iPhone launch, and if any telecomm company is going to be chosen to release the new iPhone, it’ll most likely AT&T, given it’s exclusivity deal with the current gen iPhone. It also mentions that employees can take a break afterwards when “thing die down”.

So AT&T expect a flurry of activities after the event? Well, there aren’t any other phones with the ability of attracting a massive explosion of press coverage besides the iPhone. (more…)