Robert Accettura

On occasion I’ve been quoted in various publications often for either causing trouble or commenting on it. Here’s a few I’ve managed to pick up on. If you know of one that isn’t on the list, let me know:
2009

Judges panned Woz’s cha cha but it’s a hit on YouTube

Mercury News / Scott Duke [...]

After seeing on Slashdot that you can browse the web using the PSP (and it doen’t look to bad), I do wonder if Minimo can be ported to work on the PSP. With Small Screen Rendering (SSR), it might actually be a pretty cool device for casual web browsing. It already has WiFi. [...]

Gratis Internet (the folks who brought the Free iPod deal), appear to be running a Free Mini Mac deal.
Any takers?
They did deliver on the iPod, so I now know the company is legitimate. So any help is appreciated.
If you signup using my link (above), and complete 1 offer, you can get a Gmail account [...]

Ok, I admitted to being a geek a long time ago, but here’s what I’m thinking:
Take Apple’s new Mac Mini, which is 2″ in height (slightly over 1U). Put several of them on a metal tray. Why? Because it can become a makeshift blade server. Granted your limited to Firewire, USB, [...]

FreeiPods.com actually delivered.
Today it happened. FedEx dropped off my free iPod. It’s a 20GB 4th Generation Apple iPod. I was just about to leave, so I took a few pics with my Camera Phone and left. I’m to busy to open and play for at least a few days. I’m [...]

I confirmed with FedEx that a package from Apple Computer Inc. to Robert Accettura has shipped. Unless Steve Jobs decided to send me a dog turd via FedEx, that might be an iPod. Also in the news, it appears the iPods are no longer graffiti covered with freeipod.com on the back. The [...]

The latest news is Freeipods.com is now using the Apple Store as another/replacement provider of iPods. But there’s a change. It appears now all iPods are inscribed “Freeipods.com”, you can see pictures someone posted here.
While it may sound trivial, it does make it harder to get repairs (always seems to take longer [...]

Well, I decided to do some freeipods research:
eCost: Couldn’t give me a number. But when I asked about the 20GB Apple iPod was told there was ‘a lot’. No backorder. As of 12:30 PM EST.
PCMall: 223 in stock (enough for at least week). As of 12:39 PM EST.
eCost has [...]

I’ve reported before that you will receive spam if you signup for freeipods (so use a free email account your willing to get spammed). I also reported Gratis is working to stop it (or so they claim). Well, it appears they are making some effort:
http://www.freeipods.com/donotsend.aspx
Enter your email address there, and apparently in 10 [...]

In continuing with yesterday: Wired News has an additional story. Interestingly:

“We are suspending all marketing via email to our customers, and wanted to make sure you knew this was an important and sensitive issue for us,” Martin wrote in an e-mail. “Sending promotions to users is a fairly standard practice for many industries, [...]