Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Now before you start sending angry emails, don’t get me wrong. I love Pandora. I’ve been using it since the beginning, and have rode along through all it’s trials and tribulations. A music genome project? Awesome! There was a time when my hard drive with all my music on it was out of commission, and with my stations on Pandora, it felt like I was listening to my own library, almost creepily at times!
Read more on Why last.fm is better than Pandora…
I’ve had a MySpace account for a while. A good, long while. In all of those years, I have never once been solicited by a band or musician I actually liked. But alas, after all that time, a miracle has indeed occurred! Ladies & gentlemen, I preset to you Sacramento’s own Agent Ribbons (minus the newest addition, violinist/cellist Naomi):
Read more on Music I Like: Agent Ribbons…
Software makers Chocomoko has pushed their stylish LastFM companion app SweetFM into open source waters, and you can find the free download here on Google Code.
LastFM allows you to keep track of what you listen to in iTunes online, adding a social aspect to your musical tastes. Once logged in, you can see your own top artists, songs, and albums over different time periods, and find other music like it via recommendations, friends, or “neighbors”. SweetFM provides a desktop interface to all this magic, allowing you to stream music and save the songs you like to iTunes in listenable, but albeit 128kbps quality. Perfect for tucking away those tracks you’d like to buy later through iTunes!
Read more on SweetFM, LastFM’s stylish, Open Source cousin…
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The release of Google Earth 5 has some pretty awesome features in it, and I think my favorite so far is the historical imagery. When you have a location up, a little clock icon in the toolbar at the top allows you to browse through past satellite images, in some cases going as far back as 1940!
Read more on Google Earth 5’s Historical Imagery…
Portland-based beardstress Erin crafts beards for folks out of felt and yarn. View and purchase the assortment of beards at her Etsy shop: imadeyouabeard.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
I came across her prints on Flickr, but Helle Jorgensen’s Gooseflesh has some great things on sale at Etsy. Sea-inspired soft crocheted urchins and corals? Go buy now!
Saturday, January 10, 2009
I was recently re-installing VMWare Fusion, as it’s very handy to have an installation of Windows around to test websites and what not. While setting up the Virtual Machine, I wondered, “What other OSes could I install while I’m at it?”
Read more on gOS: It suddenly got very nerdy……