This case study of how much a fictional million selling band actually pockets is hilarious. And as far as I know, pretty accurate. [Adam Curry’s Weblog] Sad, sick and “true” – it is a fictional band after all… but makes you think that if the music business gave a shit about the customer or the … Read morea music business case study
Using “Delivery”, one of the sample D.C.L applications, I just installed a package on my Newton over an AirPort connection without entering any IP configuration information. My Newton discovered my PowerBook over Rendezvous. Wirelessly.[~stevenf] Every so often I like to take my MessagePad 2100 out and play. Seems this may have just gotten infinitiley easier … Read moreBring it on…
Although the web allows for communication on a global scale, I love the local resources it makes available just as much. New York Songlines is a fascinating site with annotated maps of New York City maintained by Jim Naureckas. Simply designed, each map is a linear representation of a single street… [kottke.org]
Extremely detailed Sony-Ericsson P800 review. (via dive into mark) Update: And here’s another review, somewhat less positive. (via anonymous emailer) [~stevenf]
Enron Voice Mail system [Adam Curry’s Weblog]
LocFinder.org lists over 7800 WiFi nodes, which it claims is the largest directory anywhere. [Werblog]
My SliMP3 arrived today… in 10 minutes (with one hand! Seriously, my right arm is in a cast…) I was able to set this baby up, connect through my (also new) Linksys WET11 and BAM – streaming tunes to the living room on my stereo!! Sound quality is excellent! This is by far the coolest … Read moreSliMP3 = streaming music in my living room
Why I hate my ISP, Chapter 271: While on the road last week, my email password stopped working. I called my ISP and asked them to reset my password, which they did. Then they sent me my new password. Via email. [Quantity Over Quantity: Jimmy Guterman’s ‘blog]
Doing a fair bit of file-sharing this evening… As I import Disc 1 of Tosca Delhi 9 (promo copy) into iTunes, I realize that the album (encoded at 192!), which I pre-ordered at Amazon, is not even scheduled to ship until between 3/4 and 3/10. Yes I did still keep my order. I am a … Read morebless the internet…
while not surprisingly windows xp only, this looks a tad lame. seems like they are trying VERY hard 2b hip. The idea is interesting though… sharing music with friends, as a party playlist while chatting online. I think it seems a bit too windows-like. especially since it is really just MSN messenger and WMP rolled … Read morethreedegrees of separation
In order to unsubscribe to an MSN newsletter, you must actually sign into your Passport account. Since I don’t use Hotmail or MSN, my account was put on hold. When I tried to reactivate, the MS Server told me it was too busy… like there are that many people doing that same thing right now. … Read moreThe Server is too busy…
I updated my entry on Plucker and OS X (which has drawn an amazing number of people here…) to include the latest and actual OS X installation for jPluck, which enables Desktop capabilities… UPDATE 2/24/03…Just go here and download the OS X installation for jPluck. You will still need Plucker for your Palm.
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Tabbed browsing and form AutoFill has made it into the latest internal beta of Safari, Spymac has learned. The beta (v62) allows testers to open up new sites in elegant “tabs,” preventing the need to open multiple windows — though Tabbed Browsing has to be activated via the hidden debug menu. [Spymac] More at Think … Read moreSafari gains Tabs, AutoFill in latest beta
This past week I have been messing with a couple of tools: Zoë and POPfile. POPfile, pre-checks, classifies and buckets my mail into the following categories: Commerce, Lists, Newsletters, Personal, Spam and Work Mail then checks POPfile and can immediate sort spam to Junk as well as handle my other buckets in ways I want … Read moreMy Plan for Spam…
The first Danger HipTop with a color screen has turned up, but the catch is that it’s only going to be sold in Europe at first. Danger wants to sell more of its monochrome HipTops before they introduce a color one here. Word is that the color HipTop should go on sale in Europe within … Read moreColor HipTop, but Europe only for now…
AgentArts has release a pair of iTunes scripts that automatically sort out your MP3 library. “Make Playlist Like” is a script that will build playlists of MP3s by artists similar to a selection; “Cluster Artists” will make a series of playlists based on all the tunes in your library. Both rely on AgentArts’s database of … Read moreAutomatic iTunes playlists
“ZOE can [now] be directly integrated with Apple’s Mail.app by turning every email address and date into hyperlinks inside Mail.app itself.” (!) [Xspot] This could be the coolest Mail utility ever! I can now click on dates and addressees in my mail and bee linked into my own (literally on my machine) web of connections. … Read morezoe is google for your email
I love strolling through my music collection and ripping albums into my digital library. It lets me pull time back with some solid tracks. Right now I am listening to u-Ziq In Pine Effect which is one of the earlier albums in my conversion to electronic music. Thanks to my job at the time, I … Read moreThe Joys of Ripping Your Music Collection…
don’t ask why you would, but I just realized that when your iPod is connected in manual mode you can hit play and the music there plays through… Select your iPod from the Source list… you should see the tracks on it. pick one and hit play. This just happened to be by accident actually … Read moreplay music through iPod to Computer…