Sometimes I go searching for original artwork for a CD or an MP3 album I have purchased, especially the classical releases that get repackaged over and over again. I ran across a treasure trove of older album images at Piano Piano’s Flickr page. Wow, literally thousands of photos of albums. A great resource for those looking to get some information on an old release. A lot of the images are of the back side liner notes too. A great find!…
Jazz on Film Noir A Streetcar Named Desire Man With The Golden Arm Private Hell 36 The Sweet Smell of Success Touch of Evil Anatomy of a Murder Odds Against Tomorrow Great jazz music from these great films from the 50’s. It comes is a deluxe box set with a good book, need to get that one day soon. No longer available: But until then you can get all of the music from Amazon MP3, 5 discs worth for $9, what a…
I am a fan of Flipboard on the iPad as a newsreader, and really do not use my old favorite Reeder much anymore. However, Feedly has made it onto my tablet, and Mac too. The functionality is similar to Flipbook, although you slide pages up/down or sideways to view the pages. The layout is in a nice digest format, and of course syncs up with Google Reader. I have not tried to add any feeds, so not sure if that…
There have been a lot of reports on how Republican Governor Chris Christie has been very appreciative of President Obama during the Sandy aftermath, after Christie had previously slammed Obama about his lack of leadership. A Republican praising a Democrat running for re-election? Oh, the horror. I just don’t get it. Are people so partisan that they would rather have an ineffectual head of the US during what is definitely the biggest disaster in recent years [cue President Bush and…
For many years, I subscribed to various tech magazines like InfoWorld, eWeek, etc. One by one they have dropped the print editions and shifted to website only versions. While I understand the economics of such a move, most of these publishers have ruined what was once a valuable resource. Look at the websites of any major tech site and you will see headers, ads everywhere, and somewhere in that mess is an article. Now in the print editions, you would…
Imprint has a great article on the fate of the Ford Edsel, with a lot of info from Ford’s Dealer and Advertising books with high quality scans of the images. Kinda makes me want one…. It Takes A Lot Of Work To Fail Big Time!…(or, Is That An Oldsmobile Sucking a Lemon ?)
Update Sept 2018: Amazon MP3 match is no longer available. A while back I compared the 3 major music upload services by Apple, Google and Amazon. Amazon has just upgraded their service with an upgrade/match component similar to Apple’s iTunes Match, where it will attempt to match your music with their online library, thus eliminating the process of actually uploading the music file to their servers. Instead, Amazon will simply add your matched music to your library using their online…
Lately there have been some substantial changes in the online music world. Apple, Google and Amazon have storage services for your music, along with the accompanying stores to purchase tunes. On the storage side, each service has their advantages [and disadvantages]. After living with each for a while, I thought I would do a run-through of what features each service offers. Update Sept 2018: Amazon MP3 match is no longer available. iTunes Match: The Match service from Apple is more of…
Received my new Samsung Transform Ultra from Ting yesterday, and have been playing with applications that work well with my Mac. Some things are good, some are clunky and some are just unusable. Thought I would share some of my results as I go along. It would have been nice to get an iPhone, but Ting does not offer those at the moment. BTW Ting is a Sprint reseller, you buy your phone outright, but they have pay-as-you go. You…