Tag: iPod
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Sita Sings the Blues; or why music licensing stifles creativity
Sita Sings The Blues is a wonderful film mixing a Sanskirt ancient epic with great 1920’s music and incredible animation. Nina Paley spent 3 years doing this I think partly autobiographical animation – in parts incredibly breathtaking, laugh-out-loud funny, charming, and moving. So can you see it? I mean those 1920’s songs must be out…
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Hey There DJ, Your Nation Needs You
Today was the 4 year anniversary of John Peel’s last show – and on the 25th of this month the anniversary of his death. And fittingly I was reminded of this by the excellent Cuban Boys by the ever-present and psychic DJ Charles III (my iPod). Down down deeper and down! So, given that BBC…
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Greedy Apple
One thing that irks me about Apple (only one thing? everyone cries, well the ones reading my blogs anyways!) is that they like to be portrayed as the victim, the lone tiny company against a world of big blue corporates. Especially when journalists cover news stories about Apple. Well I have news for you –…
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unGenius barred
As badpauly correctly points out, there are serious caveats about the Genius feature in the new iTunes 8 and iPods. Submitting information about your whole library to Apple? Okaaaaaay. Yes Google does that and everyone’s running around like their Large Hardon Collider is on fire. Apple does it with shiny shiny colours and a big…
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Radio Clash – FIRST VIDEO PODCAST!!!!
Yes history in the making, a momentous occasion, phone all your friends and people you don’t even know, it’s time for Radio Clash VidCast #1: Download the MP4: Download linky love (MP4, should play on IPods, Quicktime, ITunes, QT Alternative, Windows Media Player with extra codec, VLC, and probably Winamp but vids never usually work…