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Rhapsody vs iTunes: A Rebuttal

17 Feb 2008

Chris Pirillo prefers Rhapsody over iTunes. Music subscriptions (Rhapsody) would be a waste of money for me and are not a viable solution at all. Here’s 10 reasons why: I barely spend $15 every 6 months on music, let alone every month. I listen to great podsafe music and I buy the music I _love_ [...]

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Tags: apple, chrispirillo, drm, iTunes, music, real, Rhapsody

Jazz Ringtones For Your iPhone

In: Default

24 Jan 2008

On my podcast, I utilize many promotional tracks for my show from IODA. I’ve gotten great feedback from my listeners and I know why: Independent music is great. I love jazz music and I thought what better way to promote some jazz music than to create some iPhone ringtones! Here are two of my favorite [...]

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Tags: apple, cellphone, independent music, ioda, iphone, jazz, Ringtones

My Thoughts On the Macworld Keynote

In: apple|geek|macintosh

19 Jan 2008

Now that everyone’s had a chance to digest the new announcements from Apple at Macworld 2008, I’ll go ahead and express my thoughts on each announcement: Time Capsule [link] From Apple’s perspective, this creates a great incentive for users to upgrade to Leopard. I believe users will see the benefit of Time Machine and also [...]

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Tags: apple, chrispirillo, iphone, ipodtouch, macbookair, macworld

Leopard Text to Speech Fun

In: comedy|geek

13 Nov 2007

One of the improvements in Mac OS X Leopard is a new voice called “Alex”. This voice has some realistic characteristics about it and definitely bests the old 1984 sounding voices in Mac OS X. The text to speech functions in OS X are great for those who have vision impairments or those with other [...]

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Tags: apple, leopard, macintosh

The Leopard Upgrade

In: apple|macintosh

27 Oct 2007

Uploaded with Skitch! Apple, Inc unleashed their newest operating system, dubbed, Mac OS X (pronounced “Oh Es Ten”) Leopard, or just “Leopard”. You haven’t heard? I’m sorry. Well this update to the popular operating system, “Tiger”, has been on the hearts and minds of Apple geeks for almost two years. If you’re curious about what [...]