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I’m getting sick of DRM. I’m switching to Emusic. I mean, I love Apple’s stuff, but I want some freedom of choice in my life.

Here’s a screencast from our friends over at puddlegum.net demonstrating some of the features of the cross-platform media player Songbird. Songbird is built on the XUL framework (like Firefox) and works on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

Today, I decided to try the emusic service again. I’ve tried the service a couple of times before (apparently, I tried it for the first time in August 1999 according to my account information). In the past, I never found the service worth paying for, but all that has changed now.
With a quick [...]

I was happy to see that the new Underoath album was released today in the iTunes Music Store.  Unfortunately, when I downloaded the songs, there was horrible skipping in at least one track (haven’t listened to it all yet).  This is the 3rd time (in 3 years) I’ve had this problem with the iTMS when [...]

Ice drift on April, 25th. St. Petersburg, 2006.

Originally uploaded by vetkaa.

Beautiful picture!