Archive for October, 2007
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Tuesday on a Thursday
This past Tuesday hopefully everyone went out and bought “Chase This Light” by Jimmy Eat World. After all these years and an audience that has now started to enter into adulthood some of the lyrics have grown up but the sound and emotion that made them great years ago continues on their latest.
No Comments » - Posted in Music by Jason D.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Leopard Unleashed October 26th
The highly anticipated major update to Mac OS X, dubbed Leopard, will be released to consumers on October 26th, 2007. With over 300 new features it’s being billed as the most impressive and most significant update the operating system has seen. From the new file organization paridigm “Stacks”, to improved DVD playback, the addition of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Jason T.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
DRM Free Songs Now Same Price
Apple today announced that the cost of downloading DRM-free songs from iTunes (called iTunes Plus), will now be $0.99, down from $1.29. This makes the DRM-free versions of the song the same price as the DRM-enabled versions.
No price cuts for the copy-protected version was announced.
No Comments » - Posted in Apple, Industry News by Jason T.
Friday, October 12th, 2007
The Golden Age
I’ve been keeping myself pretty busy this past week and it looks like the trend is going to continue into the weekend. Hopefully sometime next week I’ll be able to make a few more non Tuesday or Friday posts. Bungie is no longer slave to the man, and Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Jason D.
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
In Rainbows: Worthelss or Priceless?
Yesterday, in a move that is turning heads in the record industry, Radiohead released their latest full-length album to the masses.
In a characteristically surprising and short message from the band’s Jonny Greenwood on October 1, 2007:
Hello everyone.
Well, the new album is finished, and it’s coming out in 10 days;
We’ve called it In Rainbows.
Love from us [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Music by Jason T.
Friday, October 5th, 2007
If you’re lucky
While excellent movies exsist in theaters right now a lot of them are in limited release. Since it’s hard to keep up with what has come out and if it was a wide release or not here are a few suggestions that you may be lucky enough to find depending on where you live.
’Michael Clayton’ [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Friday Review, Movies by Jason D.
Friday, October 5th, 2007
New Zune threatens Microsoft’s partners
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Welcome to the social? Or is it the anti-social? Microsoft this week announced some new additions to the Zune product family. There is a new Zune 4GB, Zune 8GB, and Zune 80GB. The 4 and 8Gb models would be competitors to Apple’s iPod Nano. Well, I guess the previous generation of [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Apple, Microsoft by Jason T.
Friday, October 5th, 2007
This better be a good song for $9,250.
1,700 songs and $222,000 later the RIAA has just proven how extremely desperate they have gotten. Jammie Thomas, an Indian reservation employee who must be making bank, just lost the first of its kind case for music piracy. There have been 26,000 lawsuits against individuals thus far but most all of those have been [...]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
But does he have a myspace account?
Friends don’t let friends sell out to Microsoft. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that facebook may be slightly “giving up”. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been quoted as saying selling the company is the end. If he takes the $300-$500 million to sell 5% of facebook would we have to consider that the beginning of [...]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Whose ‘House’?
If it wasn’t already hard enough to figure out… Further confusing the subject, a few NBC shows have appeared on iTunes despite NBC/Universal claiming they would not continue partnering with Apple after talks ended over a month ago. At the heart of the standoff was pricing control and only NBC/Universal was getting their hands dirty. [...]