Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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Friday, June 20, 2008

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Friday, June 6, 2008

New Team Robespierre MP3: "Billz" (Spin)

Dance-rock and socio-political messages have been strange bedfellows since Gang of Four's early 1980s heyday, and with Team Robespierre 's "Billz," a tune of their just released EP Bad Habit , the unrest continues as the Brooklyn-based quintet offer a logical extension of Andy Gill's capitalist-baiting tendencies. Team Robespierre lift a page out of the Four's playbook by chanting in ...

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Audio books available online (Quad-City Times)

Davenport Public Library card holders no longer have to wait for the library to open to check out audio books. Access to a Web site allows patrons to download books and listen on home computers or Mp3 players.

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Newman's COOL MAN MP3 player is the world's dorkiest yet (Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

It's a fairly ugly and nondescript MP3 player, so why are we showing it to you, you ask? Check out the back of the player - it has a safety pin clip, so you can pin it to your lapel amongst the numerous musical buttons you're rocking, reaffirming your indie cred. Or is that dork cred?

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MP3 listeners targeted in Bristol (BBC News)

Young people using MP3 players are the target of a new campaign to warn of hearing damage.

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Your chance to Shine in the Sun (Vancouver Sun)

Place your Prom photos online and you could win a laptop with a wireless printer or an mp3 video player. Submit your stories, photos, tributes and memories at VancouverSun.com/grad2008.

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High Fidelity On the Go (New York Times)

I don?t like the sound quality of MP3 files used by portable music players. Is there a way to play CD-quality music on one of these things?

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Liars To Spread Their Truth This Summer (CMJ)

Liars have a lot to offer this summer, starting with their digital-only EP, Freak Out Fans can also find a Liars' cover of Bjork's "Army Of Me" on Stereogum's Enjoyed: A Tribute To Bjork's Post (a free MP3 download album), and can check them out live when the band returns to the Radiohead tour in August, after headlining the free pool party July 20 at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn.

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New Music: Sigur Rs: "Gobbledigook" [Video/MP3] (Pitchfork)

As reported , the video and mp3 of new Sigur Rs track "Gobbledigook" are up at the band's site.

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Apps: iToner, Billings, DragThing, iToner (MacNN)

iToner 1.0.7 ($15) iToner lets you easily transfer your own MP3 or AAC audio files to your iPhone, and enjoy them as custom ringtones. The new release has fixes for iTunes compatibility. iToner should no longer prevent iTunes from removing iTMS ringtones. It also fixes a crash when syncing with iPod touch from iTunes and includes various fixes and...

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2008 VOLVO VNL64T-670 (The Trucker)

Price: Call! * * Plus government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer document preparation charge, and any emission testing charge. AM/FM/CD/MP3 SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO,, serial number: 4V4NC9EJ68N263356, stock number: N9388, 485 HP, White, Air Ride suspension, 38000 axle cap.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Lightbox for photo feeds

Because I needed it and I couldn’t find it: a tool to embed a Lightbox-based photo album viewer that uses an RSS photo feed as its input. It uses SimplePie RSS library, the Lytebox Javascript photo viewer, and RSS ‘photocast’ feeds from e.g. Flickr, Picasaweb and Smugmug.It can be found here: tools.forret.com/lightbox/An example: using the [...]

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Procreate to win a car

I’m getting old, I guess. This ad campaign annoys me. For those who don’t understand Dutch: if you take a Dodge Journey for a test-drive on the Father’s Day weekend, and make a baby on the back seat, then you have a chance of winning a car.First off: it’s borderline immoral. There can be several [...]

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