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Aftermarket XM with traffic data

Paul Westbrook | 12 May, 2006 00:34

AlpinenavOver a year ago, XM announced their NavTraffic system, and it was included in the Acura RL.  Alpine just released an aftermarket headunit that integrates XMs feed into their navigation system.  The HCE-100XM connects to one of their navigation units, and provides traffic data.  With this data travel can be routed around traffic congestion automatically.

I personally would not buy one of these for my self, as I don't like how the after market headunits have screens that pop out of the dash.  What I would by is a replacement Navigation control unit that would replace the one that came with our Odyssey.  With this I would still want to be able to use the builtin touchscreen display.

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USB Support in Windows

Paul Westbrook | 12 May, 2006 00:12

Admittedly, I am mainly a Mac OS X user, but I do have several Windows machines.  Every once in a while I see how something is implemented poorly in Windows that just works in Mac OS X. 

For example, it appears that when Windows recognizes a USB device, it only recognizes when it is connected to the particular USB port.  As soon as you connect it to a different port, Windows thinks that it is a never before seen device.

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CARS Podcast

Paul Westbrook | 12 May, 2006 00:09

CarsvideopodcastI saw this post that mentioned that Pixar has a video podcast that goes over different areas of the production of Cars.  I though that this would be interesting to see, so I added it to iTunes.  Today, I noticed that the video files were not appearing on my iPod.  It appears that when Pixar created the videos, that they are not using MPEG 4, but another QuickTime format.

I would think that a company, as closely related to Apple as Pixar is, would want these things to be available on iPods, without conversion.


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