After all was said and done, over half of my music library was able to be upgraded to 256 kbps for a measly $24.99. That includes tracks I have ripped from cassette tape.

No complaints here.

They’re dropping like flies over at TechCrunch.

Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent (and often unusable) experience for fast-growing percentage of the users who don’t use a desktop browser. It introduces some scary security and privacy issues by way of Flash cookies.

Flash makes the web less accessible. At this point, it’s holding back the web.

Where do I sign?

Marco Arment:

I expected the Kindle Fire to be a compelling iPad alternative, but I can’t call it delightful, fun, or pleasant to use. Quite the opposite, actually: using the Fire is frustrating and unpleasant, and it feels like work.

That doesn’t sound like a compelling reason to buy one…

Apple has finally flicked the ‘on’ switch for iTunes Match.

Step 1 – Upgrade iTunes
Step 2 – Turn on the iTunes Match feature and pay $25
Step 3 – Instantly legitimize your pirated music

Have at it, folks!

Apple has finally released a firmware update for their line of routers, but it doesn’t solve the one problem I have.

This issue started happening as soon as I made the transition to iCloud. I really thought they would address it in this update, but it seems that not all of Apple’s hardware wants to play nicely with iCloud yet.

Marco just had a little rant about a new Asus machine that looks suspiciously like a MacBook Air, inside and out. He finished with this…

It looks like people who want to run Windows on something a lot like a MacBook Air are better served by just running Windows on a MacBook Air.

He’s right. I have Windows 7 installed on a Bootcamp partition on my MacBook Air. It is fantastic! The screen is crisp and the performance is fast. It’s much, much nicer to use than the two dedicated Windows machines on my desk, made by Dell and HP respectively.

Further to Steve Job’s written rant 18 months ago, Adobe has announced that it will stop developing Flash for mobile devices.

Many of the pundits are today saying that this is a big win for Apple. It’s not. I believe this is a small win for technology in general. It’s a step in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go before we achieve truly open standards.