Linked List: August 15, 2008

Friday, 15 August 2008

TapeDeck 1.1 

New features in the $25 audio recorder include uploading to YouTube (example).

Tim Bucher Leading Dell’s Music and Entertainment Initiative 

Remember Tim Bucher? Back in 2004 he was an executive at Apple, and was promoted to lead the company’s Macintosh hardware engineering division. Six months later, he was fired. According to a wrongful termination lawsuit Bucher later filed, Steve Jobs told him, “People think you are sometimes manic-depressive…. I think I’m going to have to ask you to leave the company.”

BusinessWeek’s Peter Burrows reports that Bucher is now at Dell:

He’s spearheading an ambitious plan at Dell to break Apple’s dominant hold on the digital entertainment market. He won’t challenge Apple head on, with iPod knockoffs or a Dell version of the iTunes music store. Instead, Bucher’s 120-person team is trying to create a potent alliance among Apple’s many rivals, from cell-phone makers and record labels to online music sites.

How can he lose with Rob Enderle on his side?

Mobilize Conference Startup Launchpad 

GigaOm’s upcoming Mobilize conference includes a startup launchpad; might be a good opportunity for iPhone developers seeking publicity.

Walt Disney Animation Studios 

Crackerjack new branding and web site for Disney’s animation division. Simple, crisp, strong design. (Via Gus Mueller.)

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene 

Impressive technique for enhancing and altering video.

iPodRip 

My thanks to iPodRip for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. iPodRip is a $20 Mac utility that lets you recover songs and playlists from an iPod — so you can use it for tasks like copying music from an iPod to a Mac other than the one whose iTunes library the iPod is synced to.