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Digital Music Players

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Greenpeace Activists Call Apple's iCloud a "Dirty Cloud"

    Giant walking iPhones greeted Apple employees as they entered the company's headquarters in Cupertino this morning where Greenpeace activists criticized Apple's iCloud for using "dirty power."Demonstrators stood outside demanding employees and executives stop powering its iCloud using coal-fired pow ... More >>

  • Music

    April 4, 2012

    K.Flay's Smart-Aleck Rhymes Could be the Bay's Next Big Export

    Giant walking iPhones greeted Apple employees as they entered the company's headquarters in Cupertino this morning where Greenpeace activists criticized Apple's iCloud for using "dirty power."Demonstrators stood outside demanding employees and executives stop powering its iCloud using coal-fired pow ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 28, 2012

    A Smart Aleck with Rhymes

    Meet K.Flay, the Stanford grad who might be the Bay's next big female rapper

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    How the iPod Sucked All the Joy Out of Listening to Music for Me

    ​In case you missed it, Bjork just became the first artist ever to release an album as a series of apps. Depending on your perspective, you're either breathless with the futuristic, multi-media innovation of it all, or -- if you're like me -- it kind of makes you want to stick your head in a bucke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Let the Cassette Tape Die Already

    And stay dead! (Photo via.)​ In its July issue, Wired magazine takes note of a disturbing trend: The apparent unwillingness among young, music-loving cool types to let the cassette tape die a complete and much-deserved death. Noting that 2010 saw both the last new car ship with a tape player ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    R.I.P. Microsoft Zune, Redheaded Stepchild of MP3 Players

    Zune 2​Word out of the Seattle area is that Microsoft is finally killing its Zune lineup of MP3 players, opting to fold the media player technology into their Windows Phone 7 devices. While most people shrugged the Zune off as an unworthy MP3 player, the truth is it deserved better. None of the de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    How To Manage Your iPod Without Looking Like an Idiot or a Crazy Person

    Note: Nelly Furtado not required to maintain respectability​iPod gigs don't grow on trees, as much as we've tried to plant lesser MP3 devices in the ground (in hopes of a bountiful Apple product harvest). And until somebody makes an infinite-RAM MP3 player, or we're capable of streaming music from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Consider This: An Entire Generation of Deaf People

    They actually reproduce music the way it's meant to sound!​There are several fascinating, sound- and music-related issues discussed in sound designer Julian Treasure's recent TED talk: the reality that musicians' brains are bigger than non-musicians' brains, the cost of compressing music, the trul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Five Features That Would Make iPod iTunes Better For Music Fans

    ​Even if we don't know what will actually happen at Apple's big music announcement next week, we know what we want to happen. The iTunes/iPod combination has long been the standard apparatus for music fans, but as much as we love it, there are things we hate about it, too -- and things we wish it ... More >>

  • News

    August 11, 2010

    iHelp for Autism

    For autistic children, the new iPad is an effective, portable device for teaching communication and social skills. It’s also way cool.

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    What A Real Music Nerd's Car Stereo Looks Like

    ​Oh, your Lexus has iPod connectivity? Yawn. Our definition of a luxury automobile includes a turntable in the dashboard.[Burbia]Follow us @SFAllShookDown

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    The Case of the Missing iPad Cover: What to Do While Waiting for "the" Case

    They're selling for twice the price on eBay.​How can you define your status as an Apple fanboy/girl/hermaphrodite without the official Apple iPad case? With its sleek simple design and unique texture...

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    In Store w/ Recycled Records, Where Vinyl Killed the CD Star

    ​In Store spotlights San Francisco's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our city's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    5 Products Probably Not Launching at the Apple Keynote Event

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Music

    December 31, 2008

    Cell phones: the future of music broadcasting

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2008

    Islands Perform Free Show in S.F.

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Music

    April 23, 2008

    Shelby Lynne digs into Dusty Springfield’s archives

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    iPods Now More Explody

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2008

    BART Cards Due to Suck Less

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2007

    Don't Let Your Gadget Relationships Go Stale

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2007

    Bay Area's Apple #1 Among Nubile Sorority Girls, Slain Quarterbacks

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2007

    Feist Back in San Francisco Early November: Indie-boner --- risING

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • Music

    November 2, 2005

    Music videos: First they were all the rage, then they were all but dead. Thanks mainly to Apple, they're back.

    New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

  • News

    July 6, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, July 6, 2005

  • Music

    June 29, 2005

    Rise of the Pod People

    Podcasting: What it is, how to get it, and what it means for a radio dial near you

  • Music

    April 6, 2005

    In the Year 2005

    Like killer bees and cheap labor, this year's music and fashion trends are charging up from the South (by Southwest)

  • News

    January 19, 2005

    iSex

    The Macworld Expo was less about gizmos and more about what every nerd really wants -- lots of sex.

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Weekly Obsessions

    Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 29, 2004

  • Music

    December 8, 2004
  • Holiday

    November 24, 2004
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