Thursday: March 11, 2010
- CNN lists out the top ten geek anthems of all time.
Slow news week eh, CNN? It's nice to see that they are tailoring articles that happen to be relevant to my specific interests. Coincidence or targeted advertising? All things considered (and to my surprise) this is actually a pretty well rounded selection of songs. Go ahead, get your geek on.
Wednesday: March 10, 2010
- Rock Band 3 to arrive just in time for this year's holiday season.
Details are scarce at this point but a posting on Rock Band's Facebook page promises to 'innovate and revolutionize the music genre once again, just as Harmonix did with the original Rock Band'.
Tuesday: March 9, 2010
- Daily Grind: Nerdy
Name: Vin (aka levelup+1)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Nerdy @ 2:55:41 PM
What Vin really wants today: Finish up remaining work tasks and attempt to get some time in playing a certain RPG video game that sounds vaguely similar to 'Shminal Shmantasy' at some point this evening. Insert traditional battle victory theme here.Music Stuck in Head: Call it Love / God Street Wine
Continuing the celebration of the recently announced GSW reunion. You can have a listen to this rare jazzy track over on archive.org.Stuff to do today:
- Purchase Final Fantasy XIII from semi-local NYC area Best Buy
- Semi-local = four subway stops from work location (meh)
- Ignore reviews complaining about PS3 versus Xbox 360 quality
- Finally post new photo to photoblog
Monday: March 8, 2010
- Daily Grind: Fantastic
Name: Vin (aka hat tipper)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Fantastic @ 2:11:12 PM
What Vin really wants today: To continue absorption of certain programming material for a certain mobile platform in a certain amount of uncertain time.Music Stuck in Head: Electrocute / God Street Wine
Mostly in honor of the recent God Street Wine reunion announcement that was just recently posted. Must. Contain. Excitement. Link here for those interested.Stuff to do today:
- Continue containing excitement
- Attempt to purchase tickets to said reunion shows first
- Seems like it's a good week to be a fan of jambands past and present
- And by 'present' meaning this little Phish link that popped up this week
- Attend movie in full-on Avatar costume for giggles (since it will most likely be in 3D and all)
- Ben Stiller FTW - abandon previous to-do item
- Get back to iPhone development
- Looking for some new music? Give the SXSW torrents a whirl.
More importantly, are you looking for some free and legal music to download? If the answer is yes than go ahead and enjoy over five gigabytes worth of audio content courtesy of the South by Southwest festival.
Tuesday: March 2, 2010
- Hacking popular ticket sites may land you with several unfriendly charges.
What kind of charges you ask? Well there is conspiracy, wire fraud and unauthorized computer access for starters. According to the source article that wire fraud charge carries a twenty year prison sentence.
Thursday: February 25, 2010
- Apple would like you to know that they've hit the ten billionth download.
The downloader of said billionth song is the lucky recipient of a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Try not to spend it all one place (gift card is also good for app store purchases as well).
Monday: February 1, 2010
- A handy tutorial regarding how to make your very own rubber band bass.
Yes, it's true - a rubber band bass guitar will make yet another lovely addition to any office desk or cubicle. Also, making rubber band music with your co-workers is a great way to pass the time (play at your own risk).
Thursday: January 7, 2010
- Daily Grind: Efficient
Name: Vin (aka jimmy three-teeth)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Efficient @ 3:10:25 PM
What Vin really wants today: Give myself a round of applause for writing various scripts that condensed a boatload of work into a smaller buoy-sized amount of work.Music Stuck in Head: The Entertainer / Billy Joel
Mostly because the synth effect in the intro and outro of the song. Reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons every time.Stuff to do today:
- Read up on all the happenings from CES over in Las Vegas
- Watch the Microsoft Keynote
- Boy, was that ever boring
- Find something more entertaining
- This YouTube video will suffice for now
- Wow, it's even got Reversi
Friday: December 11, 2009
- Apple offers up a free holiday sampler in the iTunes Store just for you.
'Sampler' in my opinion, is the wrong word in this case as Apple is essentially giving away TWENTY tracks of free holiday music. Head on over to iTunes and snatch this up while it's still available. You'll get to hear Weezer do a rocking rendition of 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'.
Friday: November 20, 2009
- Sony to unveil a brand new digitial distribution service sometime in 2010.
Sony plans to launch a new online service to distribute movies, music, books and other content to network-capable TVs, Blu-ray players, ebooks and others in a bid to add value to its hardware.
Thursday: November 5, 2009
- Beatles catalogue will soon be available via USB drive.
Yes, The Beatles have finally come to Apple. And by Apple, I mean an Apple-shaped USB device. And by USB device I really mean, oh wait. The collection includes FLAC files along with high quality MP3s and will set you back $280 bucks.
- No Doubt not too happy with how their likeness was used in 'Band Hero'.
In one instance of how 'Band Hero' allows for unauthorized use of No Doubt's likeness, a feature on the game has the band's Gwen Stefani singing Rolling Stones song 'Honky Tonk Women,' the band's lawsuit states.
Friday: October 30, 2009
- A handy guide to Phish-speak just for you.
It's good to know the difference bewteen your custies, wookies, and aisle monkeys. Posting this in honor of this weekend's Festival 8 being put on by Phish over in California.
- Twelve things you need to know about the recently released Apple TV 3.0.
Everything you really need to know about Apple's expensive music store / television gateway device. Hey, have you downloaded one of those fancy new iTunes LPs yet? Apparently they work great on this little device.
Thursday: October 29, 2009
- Google pulls the curtain back on brand new music search.
...this tool introduces millions of music seekers in the U.S. to a new generation of licensed online music services, from MySpace and Lala to Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody.
Thursday: October 22, 2009
- Eleven mediocre television shows with awesome theme songs.
Take a trip down memory lane and reminisce about the television shows you may have used to watch. The combination of DuckTales and Rescue Rangers still holds a special place in my heart (although not mentioned on said list). Hey, remember The Jets?
Friday: October 9, 2009
- Eleven of the most spot-on song parodies from South Park.
'South Park' hit Kanye West hard in their 'Fish Sticks' episode earlier this year... it wasn't quite as hard as they hit Mel Gibson, Jennifer Lopez, Phil Collins or Paris Hilton in the past, but it was close. And this all came before the Kanye/Taylor Swift incident.
- Touch Arcade gets some hands-on time with Rock Band: iPhone.
playing the tracks in the iPhone Rock Band works just like its console big brother in that every note you miss causes the music to be interrupted. This seems to add so much more to the game than just tapping along to a song like other similar games on the platform...
Tuesday: October 6, 2009
- David Bowie officially joins Rock Band lineup... in LEGO form.
Bowie will also be joined by a LEGO version of Iggy Pop. I'm still not understanding the whole Rock Band / LEGO connection. Perhaps the union is meant to function as a metaphor to emphasize the building blocks of music. Or maybe it's just cross-marketing gone berserk.
Thursday: October 1, 2009
- Palm decides to partner up with Amazon instead of hacking their way into iTunes.
But what Palm should really do is to make an iTunes rival, a media-playing, content-syncing, Amazon MP3-friendly application. And it should make it work not just with the Pre, but with any device you might own, including the iPhone.
Tuesday: September 29, 2009
- Warner Music and YouTube close to finalizing brand new deal.
The deal would also open the door to a possible role for Warner in a new music video website called Vevo, which is backed by Universal and Sony and will be supported by YouTube's technology platform.
Friday: September 25, 2009
- The Legend of Zelda... with lyrics.
'Trust the hero inside, but if you're terrified, purchase the strategy guide.' Brilliant.
Thursday: September 24, 2009
- Daily Grind: Relaxed
Name: Vin (aka jim lookalike)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Relaxed @ 2:16:00 PM
What Vin really wants today: Breathe easier now that meetings went semi-well this morning. Make time for a haircut this weekend so people can stop saying I look like Jim from The Office (keep the smug attitude in check though).Music Stuck in Head: Yesterday / Guns n' Roses
Take a stroll down memory lane and watch the video on YouTube. I remember someone telling me that they used a stand-in for Slash at the time. You be the judge.Stuff to do today:
- Stop making baseless accusations about Slash's appearance in certain GnR videos
- Dig up old tapes of college band playing a calypso version of Sweet Child of Mine
- On second thought, keep tapes buried and hope they are never found again
- Note that this may be the first week in a long time where a daily grind entry has been posted every day for the span of the week
- But the week ain't over yet
Wednesday: September 23, 2009
- Want to know what the best sounds for getting work done are?
It depends on whether your office or workspace is noisy enough that a good kind of noise or music is preferable to the natural cacophony. It depends on your personal attention span, and how likely you are to fiddle with controls versus letting a music stream trickle past your ears.
Monday: September 14, 2009
- The AppleTV gets a brand new hundred dollar price drop.
Your gateway to iTunes on your television site will now set you back just $229 instead of the previous price of $329. Oh, and you can kiss the forty gigabyte model goodbye. C'est la vie!
Friday: September 11, 2009
- Twenty odd musical instruments that you can actually play online.
A neat gallery of playable instruments (must have Adobe Flash to actually play instruments) by inventor Harry Partch. According to Wikipedia, Partch invented and constructed instruments that could underscore the intoning voice.
Thursday: September 10, 2009
- Apple has posted a video stream of their special music event from yesterday.
Watch Steve Jobs's triumphant (and much applauded) return to the stage. Lots of interesting stuff out of Apple yesterday from iTunes 9 to iPod Nanos with video cameras (which for some strange reason can't take still photos).
Tuesday: September 1, 2009
- Five ways to listen to music on your iPhone without actually using iTunes.
Thanks to the incredible success of the App Store, there are plenty of ways now to access streaming music even when you don't have the files.
Monday: August 31, 2009
- You'll be seeing a lot more of The Beatles at certain stores in the coming weeks.
It will be hard to miss the push this fall as Restoration Hardware, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Ralph’s, Pathmark, 7-Eleven and Blockbuster all promote the CD collection.
