“Podcasts, short for Personal On Demand broadCast, are audio files you can download into any MP3 player or computer. These audio files are broadcasted over the Internet automatically to subscribers of specific podcast channels.”
Via digg.
Creative Re-Invents Podcasts
January 5th, 2006Filerush is Dead
January 2nd, 2006Sadly, Filerush has kicked the bucket. That was my premium place to get new game demos and trailers via torrent downloads. Where will I get that stuff now? Filerush had a nice, minimalistic stuff of new items without any intrusive ads. I don’t want to wade through crappy ads and uninteresting articles to get to the good stuff.
Foxit Reader
December 21st, 2005Foxit Reader: a quick, small alternative PDF reader as opposed to Adobe’s slow, bloated Acrobat reader.
Geek Books
November 26th, 2005Woohoo, another meme to spread. And this one I really like, book and scifi junkie that I am. Stolen from Michael Hanscom:
The Guardian UK ran a survey voting for the top 20 geek novels written since 1932. The books I’ve read are marked in bold, the ones I also own are marked in italics.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
- Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K Dick
- Neuromancer — William Gibson
- Dune — Frank Herbert
- I, Robot — Isaac Asimov
- Foundation — Isaac Asimov
- The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett
- Microserfs — Douglas Coupland
- Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
- Watchmen — Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
- Consider Phlebas — Iain M Banks
- Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert Heinlein
- The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick
- American Gods — Neil Gaiman
- The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
- Trouble with Lichen — John Wyndham
Of the ones I haven’t read, I have read something else by the same author in most of the cases. And the rest are in my reading list. I need to return some books to the library on Monday anyway, so I’ll keep my eyes open.
Risk 2210AD
November 18th, 2005
Testing remote posting from Flickr.
Things I Don’t Like About iTunes
November 12th, 2005- I want a “remove duplicate entries” option for playlists. I quite often drag good tunes to various playlists, but I’m never sure if I already have the song there.
- I want the option to have iTunes play the currently selected track after the current one is finished, like Foobar does.
- Retarded tag writing. It writes its gain info as a comment, for crying out loud! Why can’t iTunes make its own ID3 field called iTunesGain or something and store the data there?
- And on the topic of audio gain, use a commonly accepted standard instead to be compatible with lots of other players.
- Reshuffling the party list (with 25 songs) takes forever when the music is on an SMB mount. Why?
- Stop using 100MB of memory!
Harvey Danger
November 3rd, 2005I have no idea who Harvey Danger are, but they’re releasing their third album as a free MP3/OGG download. I don’t know if I’ll like it, but I’m going to download it.
Happy Days Are Here Again
November 3rd, 2005Serenity
October 14th, 2005
Could this movie please come to Sweden now? I wants it.
Silly Test Meme Time
October 11th, 2005
You scored as Death. You are death! Reaper of souls! Riding your horse, Binky, with a scythe at hand. Always working, always busy! You sometimes try to socialize with the living, and ALWAYS SPEAK IN CAPITAL LETTERS.