Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

Few peo­ple have had such a last­ing imact on the world as Steve Jobs. Some of my fond­est mem­o­ries in ele­men­tary school were going to the com­puter lab and learn­ing on Apple IIs and later on the Mac­in­tosh. Those early expe­ri­ences shaped who I am today. It instilled in me a love of tech­nol­ogy that […]

If you are like me, you were prob­a­bly won­der­ing where the new “Genius Mixes” fea­ture was in iTunes after you upgraded to iTunes 9. Turns out its easy to get. Sim­ply click “Update Genius”  under the “Store” menu. It’s as sim­ple as that. Please leave a com­ment on how well the mixes turn out!

This week Apple intro­duced the third gen­er­a­tion iPod Shuf­fle. The low-end iPod has been a favorite among jog­gers and gym-goers who want a small light­weight device and those who don’t want to spend a lot of money on a full sized Mp3 player. The size and low cost do not come with­out giv­ing up some fea­tures that are staples […]

> First of all let me say I have been out of pocket for the last few months. I recently started a new job and I have devoted all of my time to it but now I hope to be able to devote time to my blog and begin post­ing daily. It is intu­itive, has […]

>I am already pay­ing 99 cents for songs on iTunes and frankly, that’s too much. When you do the math, an iPod Nano (see my ear­lier post) holds 1,000 songs. At 99 cents a song that’s equal to a lit­tle less than $1,000 to fill it. I don’t have $1,000 to spend on music. It […]

>In 2001 Apple decided to join the “Mp3 rev­o­lu­tion” by intro­duc­ing the iPod. Apple beau­ti­fully cre­ated a device that sim­ply played music and that looked REALLY cool. Also in the process cre­ated a new con­cept. Until this time you cre­ated a playlist for your Mp3 player Apple decided to cre­ate a device that allowed people […]