The popular music site Last.fm was a fun experiment for me. They announced a couple of days ago that they were going to start charging a subscription fee for use of their streaming music. US, UK and German listeners will still get the full service for free. I don’t envy them their position of having [...]
At the risk of drawing the ire of the Apple Masters, and ridicules from people telling me to move to a real province, has anyone else on the east coast noticed an appalling lack of performance in the Apple iTunes Music Store lately? Searching for iPhone apps, music, and podcasts all sucks right now. Worse, [...]
I’ve mentioned my enthusiasm for Last.fm recently. It’s an interesting service whose value isn’t immediately obvious when you first look at it. It plays music? You think. Why would I want to tell them what I’m listening to? You ask. Aren’t I just giving them information for nothing? You wonder. The value becomes apparent when [...]
An internet citizen flying by the name of “john” just posted a reply to a 3-year old blog piece, titled, The Music Pirate Police are Now Mounted! A bit of a scare piece about copyright reforms in Canada which were eventually overturned and later ratcheted up several notches into what has become a terrifying legal [...]
A few weeks ago, I posted the first of a three-part headphone review. This is the second. For the past five years or so, the Shure E3 headphones (now called SCL3) had been my sound delivery weapon of choice for serious business. Developed for stage use, they quickly became popularized for portable audio for their [...]
While I’m not going to complain about what dicks Rogers are, even though they are, and their latest DNS lookup failure redirect is, well, shitty, I am going to instead talk about my iPod a bit. I know, the iPod touch isn’t as cool as the iPhone which by now, most people own and are [...]
It is no secret that I am something of a technology slut. I like gadgets and gear, particularly stuff that relates to audio. I have a few iPods and I love listening to music on them. The experience is mediated by the quality of the headphones you plug into them and the quality of the [...]
I’ve been shopping around for an iPod dockable portable speaker system for awhile. Some friends have Altec Lansing boom-boxes that they are pretty happy with so I looked to see what they have available. For $150 I ordered the im600 from the Apple Store and after figuring out my new address, they had it here [...]
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