iPodiWay -- Yahoo Maps on Your iPod.

Filed under: iPod Family, Tips and tricks, Internet

Now, I love Google Maps. Since its inception, it's been my default online maps site. I view it as the logical evolution of the industry which started with MapQuest and melded into Yahoo! Maps which gave rise to Google Maps. At various times of my Internet chronology, I've been an enthusiastic user of each.

LifeHacker has given us instructions for putting Google Maps on your iPod Photo and now Yahoo a third-party programmer has answered with a web application that allows you to enter directions between two points, then zips the results into a .zip file for download. All you do then is unzip the file and place the images in your Photos library for it to upload to your iPod. Yahoo This service is being called iPodiWay. It's really not a bad idea.

[Edit: Corrected mistaken Yahoo affiliation].

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I love my new video iPod and here is another use.  9:52:38 PM    

The Most Expensive iPod Speakers Ever!.

Filed under: iPod Family

If you thought those $600 speakers for your iPod were expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet. Hammacher Schlemmer has released the Studio-Quality Triode-Tube iPod Speakers at a mere $3999.95. No, that's not a typo, they want you to spend four thousand dollars on a speaker set for your iPod.

Okay, take a minute and breathe. In. Out. In. Out. In. Out. Better?

Now, at least for the $4000 you get a nice device. From the product description:

"...the system consists of an aluminum-encased amplifier housing four powerful Class-A tubes which glow gently as they generate warm, low-octave sound that is virtually distortion-free, considered by audiophiles to be the most pleasing to the human ear. The tube amplifier smoothes over distortions found in modern digital recordings while helping to compensate and minimize the quality loss inherent in compressed audio such as MP3s."

So it's not like it's a $100 "antique" chair marked up to $5000 and being sold in some Upper East Side furniture store. There's some real tech involved.

If there's one thing I've learned living in NYC (and consulting for the rich and famous), it's that some people will buy anything if it's marked up high enough and perceived as a "luxury" item. I have to believe that this falls clearly in that category.

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$4000 speakers for an iPod. Right.  9:51:45 PM    

German Press reports Bush getting ready to attack Iran. Should get interesting when 350,000 Irani army members come swarming across the boarder into Iraq as a counterpunch.

This is why you don't start frivolous wars, so you're ready and able to fight the ones that matter. I don't necessarily have a problem taking out Iran's nuclear facilities, but for one itty bitty catch. Iran's army was half a world away, now it's literally on our border (i.e., By noemail@noemail.org (John in DC). [AMERICAblog]

I have to hope this is wrong. Iran is a very different country than Iraq and could cause real problems, considering we do not have the troops to deal with 67 million people who will be quite upset if we start blowing things up. Iran also has a long coast line with the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz. seems they could really muck up oil supplies if they wanted to. According to the CIA factbook, they export about 2.5 million barrels of oil a day. For comparison, the Saudis export about 9 million barrels per day.  9:40:36 PM    

Bush to stonewall spying investigation. So, the Department of Justice is investigating to find out who leaked the illegal spying story, but the Bush White House will work to prevent and impede the Congressional investigation according to the New York Times. If they weren't breaking the law, they'd have nothing to hide:Though Mr. Bush made no mention of the subject in his radio address, some of his advisers and national security By noemail@noemail.org (Joe in DC). [AMERICAblog]

Hard to have a debate when one side will not talk.  9:31:10 PM    

Yeah, Kevin Madden, we all believe you. John posted the huge story which the Washington Post broke today further linking DeLay and Abramoff. Now, DeLay's spokesperson, Kevin Madden, is defending the integrity of his boss:A spokesman for embattled Rep. Tom DeLay on Saturday disputed any assertion that donations to a nonprofit group linked to the congressman influenced his legislative agenda.

So much money. So much corruption. But, really, just trust these guys. They would never use their power for personal profit, only to stop terrorists.

Those donations, to a now-disbanded By noemail@noemail.org (Joe in DC). [AMERICAblog]  9:30:33 PM    

DrugReporter: Justice, Texas Style. Reporter Nate Blakeslee's new book describes what can happen if you're arrested in Tulia, Texas -- and you're young and black. [AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas]

Just a small reminder what can happen when those in power are corrupt and believe they are immune. So, why should we expect the Executive branch to be immue, especially when we have such amble evidence of their previous lies and misleading statements?  9:13:37 PM