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Title: 2008-07-28 July iMeeting
Post by: fivespan on July 09, 2008, 09:25:12 PM
Agenda  -- Draft --

iPhone news and strategies - group participation
Google Reader - Paul Timmins
Times News Reader - LeRoy Lees
Mobile Me - LeRoy Lees
iTouch 2.0 - Lynda Matsumoto

Enjoy!

Paul Timmins

Title: Re: 2008-07-28 July iMeeting
Post by: fivespan on July 27, 2008, 11:32:23 PM
Links about "RSS readers" and other related information:

Educational Video
Common Craft - RSS in Plain English (<4 minutes long) (http://www.youtube.com/v/0klgLsSxGsU&hl=en)

Web Based
Google Reader (http://reader.google.com)
NewsGator Online Reader (http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NewsGatorOnline/Default.aspxx)
My Yahoo (http://my.yahoo.com/)
Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/)

Desktop
MacUpdate list (http://tinyurl.com/6ffdoy)

iPhone
Byline (http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/07/17/minireview-byline-rss-reader-for-the-iphoneipod-touch)
NewsGator iPhone Reader (http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWireiPhone/Default.aspx)
Google NewsReader Official Blog (http://googlereader.blogspot.com/)





Title: 28-July: Links from Anyone-Bought-Anything-New and Questions-And-Answers
Post by: ben schmidt on July 28, 2008, 08:56:28 PM
Links from Anyone-Bought-Anything-New and Questions-And-Answers

Flip video Mino series camcoder, 60 minutes or more
- ridiculously easy to use, built-in USB plug, no tapes, no fuss: ~$200
- theflip.com (http://www.theflip.com/store/Product.aspx?CID=F3)
- Amazon.com reviews (http://www.amazon.com/Flip-Video-Camcorder-Minutes-Black/dp/B0016BXRB6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1217288245&sr=8-2)
- 'Or a snake': Example video (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/04/08/flickr-video-snake) courtesy John Gruber, of the DaringFireball.net (http://daringfireball.net) Mac Nerdery blog
  - MacWorld: Review: Flip Mino, 30-July-2008 (http://www.macworld.com/article/134743/2008/07/flipmino.html?lsrc=rss_main)

iDive Question re: iDive (http://www.aquafadas.com/en/idive-digital-video/) which was on Mac Update's daily deal (http://mupromo.com/), 28-July
- Related software (video conversion) brought up in discussion
   - ffmpegX (http://homepage.mac.com/major4/) video/audio encoder, $15 registration
   - VisualHub (http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/) video converter, ~$25
   - Perian (http://perian.org/), quicktime component that adds additional video format support, donationware
   - VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) media player, donationware

iPod Touch refurbished
  - Go to Apple Canada store: http://store.apple.com/ca
  - lower left-hand corner is labeled 'Special Deals':  Refurbished iPod Touch $CAD 209 + free shipping

Tracfone (US cell provider)
  - tracfone.com (http://tracfone.com)
  - $15 phone!  http://tracfone.com/phone_details.jsp?model=TFC139

iPhone - Rogers' plan
  - Rates (http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voice_data_packages)
  - Voice plan monthly fee + $30/month for 6GB data + $15mth visual voicemail/call display
  - May need to call Rogers to ensure visual voicemail setup/working properly