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I’d find it hard to believe that no one has heard about these yet, but just in case I thought I’d better inform you all. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht (yes, you know who they are) present these podcasts which feature the most frequently dugg stories. The podcasts are undoubtedly excellent and you can subscribe to the feed here.
Well, obviously most of you will have already seen this, but if not, I wouldn’t want anyone to miss the chance to see this. It has to be the best thing ever to have come out of that axis of evil we know of as AOL Time Warner. You can watch most of the Live 8 acts at all the cities. You can watch Roger Daltrey’s alarming lipsync to “Who are you”, Sting’s rather odd version of “Every Breath You Take” and U2 and Paul Macartney opening the show, with a rather strained version of “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”. It truly is wonderful, there is however one drawback, it doesn’t work in Firefox, but not to worry, I think that anyone can put up with using IE for just 5minutes (or 10 hours) for the chance to watch their favourite acts perform again.
See this post for more about Live8 on the web, including a full link list of performances.
I went on download.com to see if i could get any music making software for windows, and i came along a thing called media monkey. This is’nt a music making thing, it is a media player with good recomendations, and it said it supported ipods which i thought was good, so i downloaded it to try. It turned out to be one of the moost horrible media players i have ever used! The songs wern’t organised to show the album and the artist they either showed: the title on it’s own or the album on its own in no particular organisation, what i mean by that is that all the coldplay song wern’t in one big block together like they are in itunes which i found really annoying because i like my songs to be in order all together. Then i looked for the ipod controls and my ipod was plugged in but i couldn’t find them and if they were there it is extremely hard to find them. When you first download it is scans your computor and loads ALL the music that it can find onto it, i ended up having somthing like 19gb at the end of it. I got media mokey from here check it out if you really want to.
This morning, my copy of Mac OS X Tiger arrived. I know it came out a while ago, but there are always a few bugs on release day which people haven’t noticed, and I did not want to get affected by these, so I waited a while. And then when I couldn’t wait any longer I sifted through all the Tiger auctions on eBay. There are a lot of fakes, and ones that people have made with their own DVD burner. “Comes on plain disc with no documentation” came up all too often. There were of course lots of legit versions too. Once I had been through them all, I bought the cheapest legit version available. And sure enough this morning it arrived.
Ever since Apple released Tiger there has been loads of talk about it. And nearly all of it has been good. I haven’t read a bad review of it. There have been a few people reporting compatibility issues but press seems to be very good. And now I can see why. It is the best OS ever. I have used 10.2, (for a couple of hours), and the interface isn’t that great, and I there is no fast user switching or expose. Then I used 10.3 for about a year. And that was the best OS, although there were bugs, help was slow, searching was slow and my user developed a tendency to log out after a fast user switch. All of these bugs have been mended in 10.4.
Here are some of the main additions to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: (more…)
A ‘Trail Version’ of iWork ships with Tiger. You will find out why I used inverted commas later. iWork is Apple’s productivity suite. That is probably what they call it anyway. As far as I am concerned it is a complete waste of time. It contains only two apps. A word processor, called pages, and a presentation app, called Keynote. I really don’t know what the point of Pages is. All macs ship with Appleworks as far as I know, and that is just fine for pretty much all word processing needs. The rest of the Appleworks components are awful, and virtually impossible to use. But since I never make presentations, and if I need to do a spreadsheet I have a copy of office for mac OS 9, and can make it with that. If you were mad enough to go out and buy iWork it would set you back £49. That is £49 to much in my opinion.
Pages is really crap, along the top (more…)
Today I was browsing iTunes music store, UK and I noticed, to my suprise that the prices were all in USD$. It stayed like this, even when I restarted iTunes. I don’t know if this stops me from buying music, but it certainly is weird.
Update: Next thing I knew, everything suddenly became $0.79, time to buy some cheap music!
Update 2: Then it was $0.99 again (sigh)!
I must say, The Best Page In The Universe must be one of my favourite sites that ever existed. Recently, Maddox posted a fantastic article about blogging. Sure, he demeans blogging and bloggers, not to mention anything involved with them, but his writing is so brilliant that I can do nought but link to this true piece of brilliant observation and dry humour. Enjoy, and feel free to disagree.
Also, I would recommend this article to Thomas Henwood and Charlie Williams. Or anyone else for that matter.
I thought this was pretty cool, a little App that takes images of letters from Flickr and makes word out of them. Type what you want and it displays it, then you can click on them to change them.
-via Download Squad.
Well, today is the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and to celebrate, Google has released Google Moon which is basically a version of Google Maps but one that only has satelite images and only then for the small area covered by the lunar landings. This is a fairly limited and pointless feature and could be better detailed. There is also one slightly amusing touch (try zooming in at maximum).
This is a next generation computer keyboard. Instead of each key being plastic with a character painted on it, it is a little OLED screen. This means that you have the alphabet on your keyboard when you need to type stuff, and then when you go into a game, or specailist program, each the screen can change, and the function of the key will also change. So say the you wanted the X key on it to be the shoot key, you could tell the keyboard driver that, and then assign the key a little picture. So then you could have a cross hair on it, so you wouldn’t have to keep checking what each key does, because its little screen will tell you. It will be out in UK in 2006, and will aparently cost the same amount as a decent phone. (Which probably means around £100, but it would not surprise me one little bit if it was more than that when it comes out.) So click here to go to the Optimus keyboard website.
I seem to remember that at my old school we had, for a while, Acorn computers running RISC OS. They were unbelievably stable, and not exactly sluggish either. Now someone has created a portable version, although, as far as I can tell, it seems to be fairly expensive and pointless. It probably also doesn’t help that Acorn has pretty much ceased to exist as well but, oh well, we can always remember them happily.
-via Hackaday
‘There is no such thing as a free lunch. But there might be such a thing as a free iPod, or a free flat-screen TV’. You are probably aware that there are quite a few websites that are giving away free iPods amongst other things, if you can get people to subscribe to various online offers. People are so keen to get these services known the the public, there are now auctions on eBay that are advistising these websites that give away iPods when you get people to subscribe to certain services.
I know what you are thinking; you are thinking that this is a scam. Well that is what I thought at first, but then I found a page on the BBC website all about this free iPod thing. (more…)
A couple of great nerdy oxymorons in here; the only trouble is trying to find them! Take a browse through the Oxymoron List.‘Microsoft Works’
‘IBM compatible’
‘Apple tech support’
