Dear Apple: Buy this, and put it in the next iTunes
From Tech Crunch’s MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library: “The idea behind MusicBox is that it analyzes every song for not only written metadata (artist, genre) but also beats per minute, length, tone, and a whole bunch of other semi-tangible quantities (check out the demonstration video). It then organizes them based on [...]
CDs Are Officially Dead
From Ars Technica’s Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US: “Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US in December. Now, Apple has ascended [...]
Free the Music
From the Last.fm blog’s Free the Music: “As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website….Free full-length tracks are obviously great news for listeners, but also great for artists and labels, who get paid every time someone streams a song…This is good because artists get paid based [...]
EMI Dropping Copy Limits on Online Music
From EMI Dropping Copy Limits on Online Music: “EMI said today that it was making its digital music catalog available without the anti-piracy measure known as digital rights management, with Apple Inc.’s iTunes as its first retail outlet. Apple said iTunes would make individual tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of [...]
iTunes Introduces Complete My Album
From iTunes Introduces Complete My Album: “Apple today announced Complete My Album, a groundbreaking new iTunes service that allows customers to turn their individual tracks into a complete album at a reduced price by giving them a full 99 cent credit for every track they have previously purchased from that album. ‘Music fans can now [...]
It’s Showtime!
According to Macworld, Steve Jobs has just said, “‘Today I want to talk about adding movies to the iTunes Store and the whole iTunes-iPod experience. Today we’re starting out with films from Disney, Pixar, Touchstone and Miramax — four studios owned by Walt Disney Co.’ The service launches with more than 75 films online, starting [...]
New Music
So, for my birthday, my brother, sister-in-law, and adorable little niece gave me a gift certificate to iTunes. Since I’m waiting for my computer to chunk through an unnecessary repagination of a 129 MB Word document…
(Dear Microsoft: when I change the tabs on one paragraph, it does not mean that I automatically want the [...]
Colbert Report, Daily Show in iTunes
The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting that the Colbert Report and the Daily Show are now available through iTunes. Instead of buying them one episode at a time, as one would with the other TV shows on iTunes, you can subscribe to them (like a podcast) for $9.99. The wording in the report is strange [...]
Things I Learned During the Week of February 13-19
There once was a post called Gobbledygook. It was posted more often than you could look. It showed up once a week, looking tired and meek. But was also as long as a book.
Here are some of the things I learned this week…
…from movies:
That there’s only so many times I can watch a movie about [...]
What the other applications on my computer think of Microsoft Office when asked by the author during a dinner party at his mother’s house.
“You’re kidding me, right?” whispered Adium, my instant messenger application, over the ice bucket that my mom put on top of the washing machine in the back hall, where we both stood, me making a vodka and tonic, and him just having a root beer, “Those guys are huge! I’m not going to say anything [...]
