Saturday, December 17th, 2005
The new Google Music Search feature is cool and all, but as of this writing it only turned up four recordings for Ludwig van Beethoven, and Gustav Mahler returned nil. Ditto for San Francisco Symphony.
The direct links to iTMS are cool too, but something seems wrong with my Firefox because ...
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Friday, September 9th, 2005
What I like about iTunes 5:
Better, larger status display window
Much faster performance in the UI, especially when browsing the iTunes Music Store.
And bottom line, those are the most important features to me. However...
What I could care less about in iTunes 5:
"Skip when shuffling" preference. Yawn.
And what sucks:
"User interface guidelines? What ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
This came up in an interesting discussion today: What are your top three or four priorities? Everyone had the most interesting responses, and it was really insightful to hear what people had going on in their lives. Such a wide variety of answers, each very dependent on one's life experiences ...
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
As a Bob Dylan fan, I found this news particularly cool:
Bob Dylan to visit Taiwan
Rock singer-turned-anti-war icon Bob Dylan is to visit Taiwan in July. According to our understanding, the singer���s agent has agreed to have him participate as a part of Taipei County���s annual Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival, in response ...
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Friday, November 26th, 2004
The cool thing about this kind of album download like U2's new album above is the addition of a PDF of the CD's liner notes. This always has been a complaint of mine about digital downloads - no album info. I usually want to know who was playing ...
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