<p> AppStore is cool, but Apples rules and rights of refusal are not. There are many stories of weird rejections and strict rules against improving on the experience with apps that cover basic functionality Apple itself already have developed solutions for. This means that nobody can create a better music player (with better codec support, integrated Last.fm scrobbling or other nice features), a better video player (again maybe including support for commonly used “internet-codecs”) or release a better browser or calendar.
<p> I've been weighing it back and forth for a while. Which smartphone will be my first, after the Nokia N93 fiasco some years ago? (Symbian S60 seemed so cool back then.) Well, I think I've come to the conclusion that it'll be an iPhone 3GS. Here is why. </p> <p> I like Android as a mobile OS, probably more than iPhone OSX. But, and this is an important objection, there is no comparably cool hardware devices out yet to run Android.
<p> mp3fs is a very nice idea and a smooth way to use a vast library of lossless archived CDs in the awesome <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/">FLAC</a> with <a href="http://www.apple.com/no/ipod/whichipod/">silly mp3players</a> without native support. </p> <p> The concept of mp3fs is a FUSE filesystem which converts FLACs to mp3s on the fly (CBR only as of now) via lame. Thus you can have the original FLACs stored, and expose a folder structure of converted mp3s to whatever you want.