May 2008
Prince DMCAs YouTube To Block Radiohead Song →
Enigma2175 writes “CNN is reporting that videos from the Coachella music festival showing Prince covering Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ have been removed by Prince’s label, NPG records. Thom Yorke of…
LastGraph - Visualize Your Last.fm History →
Last.fm is a great music service that keeps track of your listening habits. Though you can view stats such as last played tracks, top artists, or most played songs with just words and…
Important Spaces change in 10.5.3 →
Filed under: OS
Over at Daring Fireball John Gruber has discovered an interesting change in the recently released 10.5.3 update. There is now a checkbox in the Spaces tab of the Exposé &…
Quiet! The King shall make a Proclamation! →
I
sincerely love Apple. I own a ton of their gear for all the reasons
everyone
else does. So it’s ironic that I feel a little tweaked by all the
hoopla surrounding the next iPhone unveiling….
Access US-Only Web Content with Hotspot Shield... →
Windows only: Freeware application Hotspot Shield secures your public web browsing by connecting you to the internet through the Hotspot Shield virtual private network. What more people seem…
The Most Expensive ZIP Codes in the United States →
90210 might be the most famous ZIP code in America, but in this case fame does not match fortune.
Parsons Design & Technology show (photos) →
Tonight was the Design & Technology at Parsons the New School for Design MFA thesis show at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. Lots of green themes and data visualizations, my…
Take Control of .Mac ebook revised, just in time... →
Filed under: Odds and ends, Books, .Mac
Take Control Books has published the second edition of Joe Kissell’s Take Control of .Mac eBook. The new version covers the use of Apple’s…
OiNK Investigation: Police Start Making Arrests →
TorrentFreak has received information which suggests that British police have made good on their claim that they would go after ex-users of OiNK. Last week, several officers arrested at least one…
Quiet! The King shall make a Proclamation! →
I
sincerely love Apple. I own a ton of their gear for all the reasons
everyone
else does. So it’s ironic that I feel a little tweaked by all the
hoopla surrounding the next iPhone unveiling….
“Mission: Metallica is offering MP3s of the new album at midnight of the street...”
– HITS Daily Double: Rumor Mill everything, the kitchen sink, AND a lithography
Free banking in Second Life →
Yes, economic activity in Second Life continues to rise. I am interested in the Second Life currency, Linden Dollars, which trades against the U.S. dollar at a market-determined exchange rate. …
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Manhattanhenge (by wlphoto).... →
good morning
inky:
Manhattanhenge (by wlphoto). From Wikipedia: Manhattanhenge is a semi-annual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east-west streets of…
Top 15 Websites To Feed Your Music Addiction →
If you’re searching for the best free music sites on the internet, then check out these 15. The websites that are presented in this article are relatively new and are listed from best to better, and…
GooTube - Google is turning YouTube into its own... →
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Creative Commons Seeks Buyer For Music Remix... →
Creative Commons is spinning off ccMixter, the music remix project it started in 2004, and is soliciting offers through a Request For Proposals. Perhaps surprisingly for a venture formed by…
Complexity theory in economics →
A very good update from David Warsh.
“Robyn got back yesterday after the day in Santorini and went to sleep around...”
– classic greg s brown - Day 6 - Corfu, Greece
Apple Shooting 3G iPhone Commercial at 5th Avenue... →
Apple’s 24-hour flagship 5th Avenue retail store in Manhattan is in the process of shutting down for the night. Apple’s retail page reflects the temporary shutdown: Please note we will be…
Twitter Closing its $15 Million Round With Spark;... →
As has been reported and rumored for the last month or so, the much-hyped mobile messaging and community service Twitter is in the process of closing its $15 million round, and the investor is…
Cool it →
Laptops run so hot there are whole product categories and advice forums devoted to keeping notebook batteries from starting a fire. So what about the hard drives now cropping up in the home media…
Live Nation Flips Switch On Facebook Widget →
Live Nation unveiled a Facebook application that lets users search for and buy concert tickets directly from their profile on the popular social networking site.
EMI May Be For Sale, HQ Shifting To LA →
According to a report in the print London’s Evening Standard Terra Firma’s Guy Hands is said to be open to offers to unload his record division and hold onto the more lucrative…
AppEngine: Announcing Open Signups, Expected... →
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SeeqPod Search Queries →
Google Gets Fancy With Google I/O TShirts. Too... →
With all the thousands of engineers at google, you’d think someone speaks binary. But perhaps not. Attendees of the Google I/O conference today were given t-shirts that, presumably, were…
iPhone SDK beta 6 is here →
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
Along with the recent updates to Mac OS X, Apple issued an update to the iPhone beta. We’re now up to iPhone beta 6. Currently, Apple has given us…
Live From Google I/O →
We’re here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for Google I/O.
VP of engineering Vic Guntodra is kicking things off with a keynote, which we will be streaming below. See our expectations for…
MySpace Shows Facebook How It’s Done: Google Gears... →
The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a…
Adobe and Qualcomm BREW up a mobile partnership →
Adobe has taken another step in its plan for domination of the mobile world — it just announced a partnership that should make it easier to create applications for the Adobe Flash runtime…
iFund taken out for a Whrll →
Filed under: iPhone
At the iPhone SDK event back in March one of the most curious announcements was the existence of the $100 million iFund. Famed silicon valley venture capital firm…
“I believe that we’re collectively working on an Internet Operating System,...”
– Tim O’Reilly
Village of Oia, Santorini. →
Village of Oia, Santorini.
Nepal set to become republic →
Nepal is set to become a republic and end 240 years of royal rule as its new assembly meets in Kathmandu.
Oai, Santorini →
Oai, Santorini
Lala.com Follow-Up →
Exclusive: More proof of curved, white iPhone 3G... →
iPhoneclub.nl: Exclusive: More proof of curved, white iPhone 3G — Slow news day? Not anymore! Dutch communitysites iPhoneclub.nl and Macfreak.nl both received a couple of pictures…
Google’s New AJAX Distribution Network →
In yet another interesting API move, Google has just released a simple but useful API for managing AJAX APIs called the AJAX Libraries API (our new API profile). The goal is to help…
10 Japanese Customs You Must Know Before a Trip to... →
If you know these key Japanese customs, you’ll get closer to the locals and see beneath the surface of Japan.
Xobni's growing user base leads to hiring more QA... →
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Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its... →
A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to us that the social networking company is planning to announce an open-source initiative around its platform, a story we broke yesterday. As Michael…
Audio sampler/mixer built from old tape reel... →
One of the participants from the “Hybrid World Scrapyard Challenge” workshop we held in Brussels, Belgium this past week created this Audio Sampler/Mixer from an old tape reel machine…