5 posts and columns on doubleTwist

Moving Data to a New PC and Syncing iTunes to Other Smartphones

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 18, 2010 at 3:35 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on transferring files and programs to a new PC and syncing iTunes with non-Apple smartphones.

More on the Nexus One

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 13, 2010 at 3:08 pm PT

More on expanding the Nexus One’s memory; AT&T vs. Verizon’s cellphone signal footprints; how to sync your Nexus One with a computer.

Voices

DoubleTwist Teams Up With Amazon to Take on iTunes

in News on December 15, 2009 at 5:10 pm PT

DoubleTwist, the media management software created by Jon Lech Johansen–a.k.a. “DVD Jon”–is teaming up with Amazon.com in its bid to create an alternative to Apple’s iTunes. Start-up DoubleTwist makes software designed to help users of devices other than Apple products, such as BlackBerry and Android phones, to organize and keep track of their music.

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DVD Jon’s Ad at the Apple Store: The Mystery Continues

in News on June 12, 2009 at 2:52 pm PT

It’s up. It’s down. It’s up. It’s down. That’s the brief, updated history of a billboard-style ad posted by the Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen next to Apple’s store in downtown San Francisco, the subject of an item here last Saturday.

QOTD

“BART’s excuse for ripping down the ad was that it was ‘too dark’ and not letting through enough light into the BART exit. However, we have pictures that show there was plenty of light coming through the ad (the ad is printed on a clear plastic material). We then submitted the following revised ad with a white background. A white ad would have let even more light through. However, it was rejected for having a solid white background (!). At the ad agency’s request, we then made the background completely transparent. After complying with all their requests to change the ad, we still haven’t been given a firm date on when the ad will be back up. Apple is a major BART advertiser (in the past they’ve plastered entire BART stations with iPod ads). Apple’s WWDC conference ends on Friday. It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. I’m sure our ad will conveniently be back up after WWDC ends.”

— DoubleTwist co-founder Jon Lech Johansen on the mysterious disappearance of the “Cure for iPhone Envy” ad his company managed to have placed outside Apple’s San Francisco store