Tagged: Compact Disc

Were Calling It: The In-Dash CD Player Dies in 2015

Were Calling It: The In-Dash CD Player Dies in 2015. No surprise here.  It is something that should have happened years ago. I was in Goodwill a few months ago and they were selling CD albums for a quarter.  I thought about that for a minute.  The people who would buy a scratched used CD vs the people who would just download the music.  The shelf was packed and no one was browsing the shelf the entire time I was there.

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Back to the Future (via Urban Professional)

It is fun the things that technology has allowed us to do. I never had a Startac but I agree that Nokia had a good game going. I wonder why they failed to innovate in the way Apple did?

When I think about how much technology has progressed over the past 15 years, I am truly amazed. In my life I can pinpoint the moments when technology changed my life. I can remember getting the AOL CD’s in the mail, and collecting them in neat stacks in my bedroom. Do you remember those AOL cases? I can also recall logging onto the internet for the first time. Connecting the phone line to the computer, so that you could get use the 250 hour tria … Read More

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Fixing an old, warped CD (via Otto Berkes’ weblog)

Clever fix. Might we worth a shot if your CD is warped as well.

Fixing an old, warped CD My wife Maggie was recently looking for pictures of our old dog Pluto for her blog, and she came across a lone CD loose in a photo box full of old, uncategorized photos.  The disk had a Ritz Camera logo and was “Powered by Microsoft PictureIt 2000.” Back when the photo world was just starting to transition to digital, you could get your film pictures put on a CD when you got your film developed. We do not have many pictures of Pluto; he was not o … Read More

via Otto Berkes’ weblog

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