• The iTunes Store Debuts DRM-Free Music. What used to be 'Protected AAC Audio File' with the .m4p extension is now a 'Purchased AAC Audio File' and is now your garden variety .m4a. The iTunes Store may finally get some competition if the rest of the labels jump on the bandwagon. EMI (the one label doing the no-DRM thing on iTunes) has already announced a deal with Amazon. Another case of manifest destiny, no doubt.
• The other day a thought occured. What will George add/change/remove for the Blu-Ray Disc release. Can you say 'Jar-Jar shot first?'
• Daddy Daze has been reviewed (they like us, they really like us!) at The Weblog Review. Congrats to Dave, the main Daddy. Here's a link to my posts, which you may have (most likely) missed. Stuff doesn't stay on the front page long.
More as I think of it.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Page 1869
So I should be reconciling the checkbook but who wants to do that? Instead I'm killing time browsing around and happened upon Engadget. It has a human readable archive URL so I thought I'd see how far back it went. Guess how many pages there are as I write this, go on, guess. Did you guess 1869? Hooray for you, you get 100 RGC points. Anyway, it stretches back to March 2, 2004 with a lovely post about some memory card format no one has ever heard of: T-Flash. Sounds like an old school rapper. In other gadgety news from March '04 we read about the still unrealased Nintendo DS, some Alcatel (?) cellphones and the Treo 610. I expected to see some glowing posts about that new rzer thingamabob from Motorola, but no luck. Here's what things looked like back then. When are we going to be seeing those cheap 3D scanners anyway?
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Are you Joost?
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
The Dead Tree Meme
Okay, so like this is my first meme, so be gentle with me.Internet monkey lover Whit tagged me with the magazine meme that's so popular with the kids these days. This is great; it's a post handed to me on a platter, with a deadline (so it'll actually get written and not die a slow, unrealized death.) But I've fooled you all, because I don't currently have any subscriptions-haha!
Regardless, I'm not going to let that stop me, so here goes.
Fine Homebuilding. Kind of an odd thing to subscribe to I don't build homes, fine or otherwise. I was going to say I got it for the articles, but thats a lie. Don't buy it unless you're living in your dream home right now, cause the houses they profile will make yours look like a dump.
Woodcraft Magazine Long, long ago in a galaxy far away, i.e., when I was single, I used to enjoy building stuff. Over to the left there, is a crib I built out of cherry when my first nephew was born. Woodworking is fun, but it's one of those hobbies that sucks up your time, money and garage space like John Frusciante consumes heroin. I stopped getting that magazine a long time ago.Signcraft magazine At work, I'm a sign designer and need inspiration to keep from making just another crap sign (although sometimes the customer wants a bad sign.) This one I do subscribe to currently, but work pays for it, so half-credit.
Hot Rod, Motor Trend, Car and Driver My Dad actually subscribes to these, so they're all hand-me-down subscriptions, really. He won't give up the Street Rodder issues, though. I'm a closet car guy, but, same as for woodworking, not a lot of resources to devote to building a hot rod, and can't afford that new car either.
That's it, as is custom, I'm tagging Todd, if he can stop writing those fictitious obituaries and harrasing cemetary statuary for a while.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
The RCG Lala.com review
I blogged about lala.com a while ago, when I had just signed up, so here's my six week report.
It's a major iPod filler. Lala.com is a great way to fill in those holes in your CD collection, I've recieved 20 CDs so far. There are a lot of albums I would like to have, but wouldn't pay $15 for, I would pay $1.75, however. Joe Perry's solo CD, Meteora from Linkin Park (already sounds dated,) The Hives, etc. You make out your Want List and other members ship CDs to you from your list. You don't know what you'll get, but hey, you want 'em all right?
On the other end, I've sent out 21 CDs, including two I mentioned before that would make someone else happier, Hall & Oates and Journey's Greatest Hits-wahoo! I have noticed the less common CDs will get requested first, e.g. Jeff Beck-Wired, The Kink Kronikles, Chris Cornell-Euphoria Morning. I've come to grips with the fact I'm never going to get rid of those hair bands, though. You pay for the CDs you receive, my first month's total was $15.75, cheap enough.
The only snafu I've run into is when I was expecting Aerosmith and got *Nsync instead. Seriously. But wait, theres more, the first person who guesses what album it was gets it. Providing you actually want an *Nsync album.
Even when my iTunes library was new, certain albums would be bought in the flesh and ripped (that sounds bad,) sans digital rights management. Since then, The Steve weighed in with his 2¢ about DRM and EMI have promised to sell their entire catalog without it. I can't imagine switching to a non-iPod MP3 player, so the DRM isn't in practice a problem for me. Still, if this iPhone thing doesn't work out and Apple Inc goes belly up, we all may not have a choice. So I'll buy the disposable ear candy singles from iTunes and trade for the "important" CDs. I've even replaced some songs I bought off iTunes with copies imported off CDs.
The RCG verdict. Thumbs up: Can't argue with the price, a good way to get rid of music you're done with. Thumbs down: Don't know what you're going to get, new or uncommon CDs are (obviously) scarce. Bottom Line: If you've got some CDs you've ripped and can part with sign up!
It's a major iPod filler. Lala.com is a great way to fill in those holes in your CD collection, I've recieved 20 CDs so far. There are a lot of albums I would like to have, but wouldn't pay $15 for, I would pay $1.75, however. Joe Perry's solo CD, Meteora from Linkin Park (already sounds dated,) The Hives, etc. You make out your Want List and other members ship CDs to you from your list. You don't know what you'll get, but hey, you want 'em all right?
On the other end, I've sent out 21 CDs, including two I mentioned before that would make someone else happier, Hall & Oates and Journey's Greatest Hits-wahoo! I have noticed the less common CDs will get requested first, e.g. Jeff Beck-Wired, The Kink Kronikles, Chris Cornell-Euphoria Morning. I've come to grips with the fact I'm never going to get rid of those hair bands, though. You pay for the CDs you receive, my first month's total was $15.75, cheap enough.
The only snafu I've run into is when I was expecting Aerosmith and got *Nsync instead. Seriously. But wait, theres more, the first person who guesses what album it was gets it. Providing you actually want an *Nsync album.
Even when my iTunes library was new, certain albums would be bought in the flesh and ripped (that sounds bad,) sans digital rights management. Since then, The Steve weighed in with his 2¢ about DRM and EMI have promised to sell their entire catalog without it. I can't imagine switching to a non-iPod MP3 player, so the DRM isn't in practice a problem for me. Still, if this iPhone thing doesn't work out and Apple Inc goes belly up, we all may not have a choice. So I'll buy the disposable ear candy singles from iTunes and trade for the "important" CDs. I've even replaced some songs I bought off iTunes with copies imported off CDs.
The RCG verdict. Thumbs up: Can't argue with the price, a good way to get rid of music you're done with. Thumbs down: Don't know what you're going to get, new or uncommon CDs are (obviously) scarce. Bottom Line: If you've got some CDs you've ripped and can part with sign up!
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