Free your music from your ipod!

A neat little article from wired.com will tell you how to do it a number of different ways, which can be found here. Here is how to do it on a mac:

1. Launch the Terminal by going to Applications > Utilities and double-clicking on Terminal.app.

2. Paste in these lines of code:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

Source: wired.com

Waste Away @ These Sites Today! Vol. 1

Maxed out on DaxFlame videos and Chocolate Rain mashups over at YouTube and can't find anything to do on the web, think again! Here are some sites that you can waste a few hours of your life on:

Cameroid - A web cam app, that allows you to add special effects to live web cam shots, its pretty much like a web version of apple's photo booth. (web cam not included).

Viscosity - Modern art generator. Become the next Picasso without leaving your home.

Fake Photo - Yes you read that correctly, create your own fake photos. This site has a bunch of stock photos that are just waiting for you to add your own witty tag lines and crappy slogans .

Blabberize - Do yourself a favor and just click the link for this one.... you will be glad you did.

Instructables - Want to get rid of your old floppy disks? Instructables can help you with that and a lot more. User generated step by step instructions to make all kinds of stuff.

BubbleSnaps - Oh snap! It's bubble snaps, upload your own pictures and add talk bubbles to them.

Soundboards @ Ebaumsworld - This is more like the last resort if you have maxed out on the above links.

Detail Blind Consumers

Unless you dismiss all sources of media, it is hard not to have seen some sort of advertisement for Dell's new Inspiron Notebook series. Dell's new notebooks come in what seems like a thousand different colors well its only 8 so called "vibrant colors". Yet where are the stats for this damn notebook? All the ads want you to chose a color to meet your personality, even Dell's website goes to great length to make a flash window to help you find the optimal color that will help express yourself. Dell's most recent catalog hides the stats in a small removable booklet within its center pages. Even on their website, on the Inspiron page only a few details are listed: Bluetooth, webcam, wifi, blueray. Well, blueray is nice yet what kind of processor is going to process all that blueray data? After digging deeper into this Dell conundrum I found the Dell Inspiron notebook series sport (by default, without any customization) an Intel Core Duo 1.5 GHZ or in the two cheaper models an AMD Athlon 64 2X Dual-Core 1.7 or 1.8 GHZ processor. That sounds decent yet chugin blueray data... I would have liked something with more muscle. Oh wait! no blueray, only DVD/CD combo drives come with the basic models. Then why the heck on the main Inspiron page they list blueray right above the prices of the various models? If you look closely there is no blueray drive that comes with the basic packages nor webcams nor bluetooth. Yet maybe that stuff doesn't matter to the average Dell consumer, how could it matter? The damn thing comes in 8 vibrant colors.

Edgar Wright interviews Superbad cast

If you don't know who Edgar Wright is, google him and become enlightened.

Funny Back2School MasterCard Ad

High Rez Wallpapers and more @ InterfaceLift

InterfaceLift.com was been around for some time now. They offer high resolution wallpapers up to 2560x1600. InterfaceLift's offerings don't end there, they also have mac icon sets, windows themes and many more interface enhancements. As of recently they have just offered high resolution iPhone wallpapers, check it out.

Apple releases new products 08.07.07

Here it is plain and simple:

New iMac:

20-inch Intel 2.0GHZ Dual Core/ 1GB RAM/ATI Radeon HD 2400 -XT 128MB/ 250GiG HD
20-inch Intel 2.4GHZ Dual Core/ 1GB RAM/ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 216MB/ 320GiG HD
24-inch Intel 2.4GHZ Dual Core/ 1GB RAM/ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 216MB/ 320GiG HD
24-inch Intel 2.8GHZ Dual Core/ 2GB RAM/ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 216MB/ 500GiG HD




New Mac Mini:

Intel 1.83GHZ Dual Core/1GB RAM/ 80GiG HD
Intel 2.0 GHZ Dual Core/1GB RAM/ 120GIG HD










New Mac Keybord

Ultra-thin anodized aluminum enclosure with low-profile keys







iWork and iLife '08

Your Music Anywhere You Can Get Web Axx

Mp3Tunes offers unlimited space to for your music for free, as long as each song is under 10 megs. Once your tracks are uploaded you can stream them to any computer with internet axx. You can upgrade $39.95 year for Premium features which includes unlimited file sizes and unlimited streaming (which leads me to think that streaming your tunes down the pipe is limited under the free account). Mp3Tunes also directs you to sites that offer music, one for free: sideload.com which finds music that is already posted on the internet and adds it to your "music locker" and the other site Mp3Tunes/store allows you to buy DRM free indie tracks for 88 cents.

Jean-Yves Blondeau aka Rollerman - Extreme