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The awesomely talented Karmin who have done some amazing R&B and Hip Hop covers on YouTube to millions of viewers, get their first 'real' single release and cool little pop tune it is. http://soundcloud.com/karmin/crash-your-party
Haven't heard of them? Start with thier 42 million viewed 'Look At Me Now' - A Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes Cover by Karmin.
Visit Google.com today and watch the amazing tribute to Freddie Mercury. With some ingenious eight bit animation this is seriously well done!
(Actually reminds me of Shaun of The Dead too!)
The ever excellent mashup talent that is Mark Vidler, yet again offers free tracks via his new release the 'Super Bastard EP'. Check out just one of the tracks and then head to his downloads page for more freebies...
A great rant about the devil incarnate, iTunes. The blood sucking, soul destroying, worthless piece of corporate disney-fied, cack your limbered with using if you have an 'i' device. So nice to hear someone with even more venom for the turd of a program than me! : )
And especially worth reading just for
iTunes is a vicious bunny-boiling bitch, going proper mental if I so much as look at another device, let alone try to give it a bloody good syncing.
Read on... (thanx for share P!)
mashable gets inside Google Music which is sadly USA only at present. Syncing to the cloud,a nd a clean no wires, no cables, no iTunes interface. So badly want this!
One piece of bloated software I really dislike is iTunes. Like the child catcher from chitty-chitty bang bang, it lures in those less technically minded only to have things turn sour if you don't drink all the iKool aid it offers.
All looks delicious and oh so very shiny, especially with your shiny new Apple iGadget. And it'll stay that way, unless you decide to change your mind or move elsewhere or to a new, non-iDevice. Then, the Disneyfied walled garden you've been lured in to, suddenly is not so easy for average Joe or Joesphine punter to get out of...
As the computer guy to turn to for my family and some friends, I all too often am asked how to get music or movies out of, or play on, other devices or computers. Or to be able to get music or apps from the USA or access other services that iTunes all too often region locks you out of. I try to tell them how to do it, but frankly I think it's designed to be far too complex, and I see them glaze over as I tell them how to hack it all, and they mostly all decide it'll be simpler to just...not...bother.
To me what it lacks is customer choice. It's no longer your media your buying, it's 'their' media and you'll just have to suck it up princess. Didn't you read that new (on mobile) 56 page terms and conditions when you installed? Your not having it easily, you'll have it their way, or things will be very bad in iLand.
Don't get me wrong, Apple make great customer products with some amazing user experiences, but iTunes, it's pricing, and region locking always gets in the way.
An Apple physical product to me is like meeting a really, really hot girl. Like, wow. She's awesome. 'Hawtness' personified! However, if you want to 'interface' with this girl in anyway shape or form, well...your gonna have to go through her rather large, and deeply unattractive 'complex' friend iTunes, every.single.time. Apple tries to tell us she has y'know 'a great personality'...but I think even they would dump her if she wasn't making them so rich.
Add in a fat 30% revenue for all apps bought straight to Apple (with that region lock fat on top) and you can see why they won't change the iTunes filtered funnel in a hurry.Go on, have a glass of iKool aid, it's shiny! So not a major surprise, it's all about money. And this great article here, shows just how much your stung for your media, and overall why they want to region lock you in and keep you milked. I kinda say more power to them. If we are daft enough to buy it and put it up with it, (or care) they why should they change?
via macstories.net
The irony is when you think about it, all these things iTunes sells are virtual bits and bytes. So they really are the modern day Sex Pistols, as they have manged to achieve the great(est) rock and roll swindle there ever has been.
Like a shiny, shiny, super sexy gorgeous thing, Tron Legacy has been teasing us for over a year and a half with beautiful images and CGI. That time is coming soon for release and I really hope for once this thing can cope with the hype it's been building in geekland.
However, will that stop me from going or drooling like a dog about to be fed?
No.
Bring it already!!
TRON related posts:
http://stephenrossscott.com/tron-legacy-new-trailer-0
http://stephenrossscott.com/tron-soundtrack-plus-a-nice-geeky-easter-egg
Clever video by this duo as they use a fake browser as the backdrop for their video. Tiny little Apple dig in there for fanboys.
Visit http://tronsoundtrack.com/ to get some groovy, and very ambient slices of Daft Punk tracks from the forthcoming movie. Plus, for geeks, just right click and choose 'view source' to see some nice ascii art.
Flynn lives!
And if for some unknown reason you haven't seen the trailers, make sure you at least watch this one:
How I missed this I do not know. This 'Airplane!' like spoof of blaxploitation movies of the seventies is getting a very limited release in the UK just now, but is already up for sale on Amazon, having been released late last year. Great posters (just two of about fifteen available) get the vibe just right and I love the tagline;
Hundred Dollar Suits
Ten Thousand Dollar Cars
Million Dollar Ladies
Pimptastic!
Buy Black Dynamite on Blu-Ray now!
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