It’s unclear how many listen to President George W. Bush’s weekly radio addresses. I suppose reporters tune in, because I occasionally catch an excerpt on NPR, but I’ve never heard of anyone setting up their own podcast feed from WhiteHouse.gov for the weekly words of wisdom. Will that change when President-Elect Barak Obama takes over?
I ran across two very interesting and diminutive products at CES Unveiled earlier this week. While the technology is compelling, I suspect the implementation will have to improve and the challenge these products solve will have to be clarified before we’d see any sort of mainstream or mass market adoption. Generating positive attention and finding commercial success are two entirely different matters.
Microsoft is polling members of the Green Button community to find potential beta testers for Windows 7 Media Center. You can learn something from a poll like this and as I read through the questions, I noticed an emphasis on satellite TV - which further confirms the DirecTV support coming in Windows 7.Here are the instructions for completing the survey and putting your name in the hat to be a beta tester:
As the resident "Mac guy," I feel a special bond with user Sherry D, who is having some problems with her iPod Nano and iTunes:
"I am following instructions to transfer my CD's to my iPod Nano, but my player is not picking up the songs. I put the CD into the iTunes window, the songs show up on the computer, and I press "import." The songs show they are downloading to the computer. I transfer them to a playlist, and press "sync." The songs then disappear. I try it both with auto syncing and manual syncing. Sometimes all of my songs on the iPod are removed when I try to sync. Help!"