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Sick of DRM

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.

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iTunes Killer Plays the Web on Windows Mac and Linux

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.

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Trying Emusic Again

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 [...]

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iTunes Music Store Support

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 [...]

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

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

Originally uploaded by vetkaa.

Beautiful picture!

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Blindsided

A few weeks ago, my brother brought me a stack of CDs when he visited me here in Europe. I was happy with some of them and disappointed by others. One of those CDs, however, has just blown me away. Blindside’s new CD “About a Burning Fire” is one of the best [...]

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Favorite Songs

It’s official (again): “Island in the Sun” by Weezer is one of my favorite songs of all time. I’ve loved this song since the first time I heard it (in 2001). I used it a few years ago in class and heard it about 20 times in one day … and I still [...]

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