Pipped to the post: Sony Ericsson W800i iTunes sync

Well, my work here is almost done: there is now a working iTunes script for the Sony Ericsson. For PC at least.

Find it at http://www.geocities.com/tvhuangsg/massstorsync/

(it's down at the moment due to high traffic)

I'll try and complete the mac version though.

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My iPod nano review

If you're interested in the iPod nano - and you should be, it's awesome - then check out my review for Stuff magazine here

Broken script

As a number of you have pointed out, the script below doesn't seem to work with the new version of iTunes. Or possibly it just doesn't work.

The good news is that I've got my hands on the Sony Ericsson W800i again, so i'll try and sort it out over the next few days.

I'll post as soon as I have anything. that's if i can stop playing with my nano for a minute…

Synching iTunes with a non-iPod MP3 player – Windows

Windows users rejoice - Michael Robertson, the man show started MP3.com back in 1997, has produced a new iTunes plug-in that will allow you to synch your iTunes library with non-Apple MP3 players. (Though not, alas, songs bought from the iTunes Music Store.)

You can find out more at the BadFruit site.

Alternatively, you could just buy a gorgeous iPod Nano… And if you're worried about it being so small it'll be easily destroyed, don't panic. There's a great piece at arstechnica which tests the Nano to destruction (it takes a while) and finding out what's on the inside.

Sony Ericsson W800i, meet my iMac… the script

Unfortunately the W800i I was reviewing has been nabbed by another journalist (hopefully temporarily) so development of the script to get songs onto the phone has been halted. If you're interested in the work in progress, you can download it from here.

It does work - on my iMac G5 Mac Os X 10.4 at least - but it's lacking any sort of bells and whistles/graphic user interface/error trapping.

I'll post here as soon as I have anything else - in the meantime, please let me know if you have any ideas about how to improve it, or how to stick a GUI onto it (at the moment it's just a bare script - you should be able to run it from your desktop, but please have a look at the disclaimer on the script first).

Good luck!

IFA special: Foldable display and 3D TV

I'm just back from IFA-Berlin, Europe's biggest tech show, and had to show off these videos:

1) Philips' foldable display, designed to wrap around mobile phones and give you big-screen browsing and video watching from a little package

2) Sharp's dual viewing angle LCD – you can play games while your other half watches TV.

One of these is world-changing. The other is a laughable gimmick. You decide which is which.