Category Archives: music

Why the iPhone update changed my mind

After impulse buying a 600$ (plus tax) piece of Apple foolishness, I have the ritualistic remorse that always follows such impulse purchasing. While it is nice to whip the iPhone out, and have friends and family ogle it, and ask you all sorts of questions– deep down,it’s hard to shake feeling a bit silly for [...]

Not because it’s free (though that helps): Tangerine

I’ve been hoping for a good iTunes plugin/addon that would help group music by mood. Adding to my desire is my un-deniable ‘Reuben-esque’ physique lately. Toss in a huuuuge music library (currently pushing 50 gigs) and my inability to create decent playlists and you can see why I’ve fallen in love with Tangerine.
Tangerine has 3 [...]

Tally Hall likes me…they really like me! (UPDATED)

A quick one for all you sinners…
Saw a show at Paradise in Boston last Friday. Tally Hall, Contoller Controller, and OK GO.
I brought a camera and got a few shots. You can see some of them on Tally Hall’s Journal. Hopefully Controller Controller will post a few pix as well.
I’ll post up [...]

Unsung iTunes 6 features – stream to more than one stereo!

When Apple updated iTunes at MacWorld this week it included the ability to stream to multiple Airport Base Stations simultaneously. When you select Multiple bases you’re now presented with a list of available base stations to stream to.

So now you can have music all over your house, dorm, harem whatever…

Free music courtesy of Microsoft…

1. With laptop in hand, travel to metro area
2. Connect to an open wireless network, and look for other computers on this open network
3. Connect to these machines (almost always Windows boxes where users have turned on printer and file sharing) with the user name guest and the password guest.
Then browse your [...]