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In less than 15 minutes (10 a.m., San Francisco time), Apple Inc. will begin hosting a special media event that has “Let’s Rock” as its tagline. The “Let’s Rock” event has been heavily hyped since its announcement exactly one week ago. The tagline and the familiar silhouette that accompanies the invitation suggest an iPod [...]

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While shopping for accessories for my new Nano last Saturday night, I stumbled on a knockoff on the new Nano. The look of it is almost identical to the real one and it even got a pink one which looks almost identical to my red one. And it even comes with more choices of memory [...]

I think you will agree with me after watching my “in Action” videos below that the 3rd Gen Nano is the best ultra-portable entertainment device on the market now. It gives you hours of entertainment in the form of music, videos, photos and games in an unbelievably small package. Not only do the functions perform [...]

花落誰家, a very beautiful and refreshing song from Hacken Lee’s new album. Like many Cantopop it tells a love story, only that it is about loving earth and what it will become if we stop loving it. The beautiful lyrics are written by 林若寧. I didn’t know what 黑臉琵鷺 is so I googled it. It [...]

I bought a Canto-pop CD last month. Its back cover tries to convey the message that its content is protected and would only allow transfer of them to WMA format within certain restrictions by using a combination of English and graphics that is almost cryptic. It also says “Playability on all devices cannot be fully [...]

Until three weeks ago, my entire collection of digital music had been ripped from CDs bought from brick and mortar shops. When I had an iPod, I wanted to buy music via iTunes, but couldn’t because I don’t own a credit card with a United States billing address. Having made my first digital music purchase [...]