Posted by Adam Kuban, March 15, 2005 at 11:38 AM
Well, I didn't see this until today, but I guess our handy little invention that goes by the name of piPod was featured in the New York Post on Sunday.
Oy: We really need to do some updating to our piPod database.
From the story:
"I used to keep all my to-try information on Post-it notes," says Adam Kuban, 30, inventor of the piPod, a free program at piPodNY.com that gives mini-reviews of several dozen pizza places in the five boroughs.
Since it was put online last summer, it's been downloaded by 1,300 pizza-lovers.
"I started putting pizza-location info onto my iPod because I always carry that with me - it's something I'm not trying to lose. From there, I just thought I'd offer those notes to readers of my website [sliceny.com].
Read the entire thing after the jump.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, June 30, 2004 at 8:21 AM
[ Visit www.piPodNY.com ]
piPod 1.2 is now available. Significant upgrades to ver. 1.0 include implementation of additional Browse-by-Neighborhood hierarchy within boroughs subsections. (Users who prefer browsing by pizzeria may still do so.)
Added functionality also includes cross-referenced linking among entries. Typo minimization was also deployed for this release; users of 1.0 will notice that you can now buy "pints" of sauce from Di Fara sted "points."
Pizzerias added: Broadway Pizza & Pasta (Bx), Brother's Pizzeria (SI), Full Moon (Bx), Giovanni's (Bx), and Sal's & Carmine's (Mn).
[ Visit www.piPodNY.com ]
Posted by Adam Kuban, June 30, 2004 at 12:01 AM
PHOTO OP Slice editor and publisher Adam K. (above) during a photo shoot Saturday for a small piece on piPod that the New York Daily News ran in today's edition.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, June 24, 2004 at 7:07 PM
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND A screen shot from Slice editor in chief Adam K.'s Outlook Express in-box.
A good amount of the offbeat pizza news I regurgitate on Slice comes to my attention via Google News and its News Alert feature, which sends users e-mails whenever something moves on the wires with whatever search parameters the user has specified. Today at 6:28 p.m. EDT, I received a News Alert e-mail about piPod. How d'ya like them apples?
I never thought this little guide would get this much attention. Since posting about it at 3 a.m. or so on Tuesday morning, we've seen more web traffic in three days than we did the past two months combined. Much of the response has been overwhelmingly positive, with maybe one person on a site somewhere commenting that it was neat but didn't contain as many pizzerias as he would like.
Fair enough criticism. I came up with the piPod idea Monday on my subway ride home from work, wishing I had the phone number for House of Pizza so I could call and check if they were open. At that point, the idea of piPod hit me, and, instead of trekking to House, I went home and culled together version 1.0 of the guide. Wanting to see the idea through in one working session, I left out a lot of pizzerias, with Staten Island and The Bronx getting one pizzeria only (and with some embarrassing typos in some of the files).
I'm working on correcting both the sparse nature of the guide (and the typos). The next version of piPod should be out by Tuesday night.
We at Slice would like to thank everyone who has written us e-mails praising piPod or who has sent us "glaring omissions." We'd also like to thank all the websites that have posted about piPod, especially iPodLounge, gizmodo, boingBoing, and Kottke—those four really started the ball rolling. We'd like to list everyone who has linked to the guide, but there are too many right now! (But you can see some of them here.)
Oh, and of course, thanks to the Slice staff for all the work you've done over the last nine months: Seltzerboy, E-Rock, and Amanda G.
Most of all, I'd like to thank my dad, for buying me the iPod when he and my mom were in town the other week. Thanks, Dad!
In other piPod news, we're pleased to announce that you can find the lil' iPod-based pizza guide at its own dedicated URL: www.piPodNY.com (though it's not case-sensitive, so don't let the shift key slow you down).
Posted by Adam Kuban, June 22, 2004 at 2:00 AM
[piPod now at www.piPodNY.com]
Slice, America's Favorite Pizza Weblog™, is very proud to bring you piPod, a field guide to pizza that takes advantage of the Notes Reader in the
latest version of the iPod operating software.
The guide is organized by borough and is meant to be a quick-and-dirty on-the-go reference tool. As such, entries are brief (some not so brief), covering the basics while focusing heavily on how to get to featured pizzerias.
In version 1.0 (downloadable below), we've included our favorite pizzerias, most of which are in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Queens, Staten Island, and (especially) the Bronx are underrepresented, we know. A couple entries are included not because we've been there but because we wanted the info in our iPods for future trips. If you see a glaring omission or factual error, send us the relevant information [adam (at) sliceny dot com] and we'll include it in future releases.
piPod Key: C = Coal-oven; P = Pies only; + = Recommended; ++ = A Slice favorite. Hence [CP]+ = Coal-oven, pies only, recommended.
To install piPod: Download either the ZIP or SITX file and UnZip or UnStuff it. Plug your iPod into your computer. When it shows up on screen, locate the "Notes" folder within it. Simply drag the piPod folder into the Notes folder. piPod is 84K when expanded. (And don't tell us you don't have room for that. Just delete one of those ridiculous Black Album mash-ups wasting disk space on there.)
To use piPod: Go to your iPod's main menu, select Extras > Notes > piPod. Entries are arranged by borough.
DOWNLOAD
piPod 1.2 (.zip)
piPod 1.2 (.sitx)
[DL .zip format if you don't have StuffIt Expander 7.0 or StuffIt Deluxe 7.0 or greater.]
Here's hoping you get some use out of this guide. Happy (p)iPodding!
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iPodLounge: For further reading on all your iPod is capable of.
Pod2Go: A handy tool for synching your iPod's Notes and Contacts. Download news, weather, and horoscopes. You can even use it to get RSS feeds from your favorite blogs on your iPod.
[Slice editors are PC-ignorant. We've tested piPod on Mac OSX 10.2.8, and all instructions are Mac-based. If you have to do something different to store items in the Notes folder on PC, please let us know.]
If you don't own an iPod, click here to buy one from Amazon. It's a car stereo for New Yorkers. It's really changed the way Slice editor-in-chief Adam K. and roving reporter E-Rock listen to music, allowing us to get the skinny on all the hot new bands. Plus, if you don't have one, you can't use piPod!
[piPod now at www.piPodNY.com]
