Category Archives: music and movies


New AC/DC album confirmed

It’s been confirmed on their site.
Side note - they managed to get the acdc.com domain.

Convert HD-DVD to BluRay

Got HD-DVD and need a way to convert to BluRay now that HD-DVD is dead? Check out this conversion walk-through over on Wired.

iTunes Digital Copy

TUAW caught this tidbit during the keynote.
Starting today if you buy any 20th Century Fox DVD that is labeled ‘iTunes Digital Copy’ you’ll not only get the physical DVD, but a digital copy. Simply insert the disk into your Mac or PC, enter a unique code into iTunes, and iTunes will import a digital [...]

Rip your CDs, get sued

Engadget is reporting on an Arizona man being sued by the RIAA.
Ira Schwartz, the industry’s lawyer in the case, is arguing that MP3 files created on his computer from legally purchased CDs are indeed “unauthorized copies”
which means the industry now wants you to buy the song 3 times - once on CD, once on [...]

Amazon beta MP3 store

I tried the Amazon MP3 beta store two night ago and came away pretty impressed. While the UI is not as slick as the dedicated iTunes application, searching, purchasing, and downloading music was very easy. I bought a few Amy Winehouse tracks, and the music was 89¢ or 99¢ a track, ripped at 256 VBR [...]

Metalheads not meatheads

From Telegraph.co.uk, a report that it’s not the meatheads that are metalheads.
Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.
The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose [...]

Joost!

I got an invite to the Joost beta about a week ago, and I finally got around to installing it on my MacBook Pro. That brings me to my first note: Joost is an Intel-only binary.
The first launch took about 30 seconds to go from no window to small blank window, to full screen [...]

Squirrel Music

My friend Andy AKA [ES] Secret Squirrel AKA Utopia Music has a podcast of his house mixes. I took the liberty of putting his mixes on a Darwin (Quicktime) Streaming Server I set up this evening. Check out his Podomatic page, and then take a listen to his work!

iPod nano

Apple sure has a way of creating products for which one does not have a need, but you want regardless. Now that I have actually messed around with a few iPod nanos, I am even more impressed with the design. While I do use my Shuffle as a USB key as well as a music [...]