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Kicking iTunes to the Curb

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve had a love/hate relationship with iTunes over the years and I’m happy to say that I’m finally moving on.  The major pain point I’m experiencing right now is with sync times.  I came to the realization that I’ve actually stopped listening to most of my music due to the simple fact that it takes…
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Relax With Some Rain and White Noise

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis week I stumbled across two similar sites that provide some pleasant auditory distraction through a simple web interface. The first site SimplyNoise offers up some white, brown, and pink noise to help drown out distractions.  And the second site RainyMood plays a gentle 30-minute loop of rain to help you relax and wash your…
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Burst – Visual Music Search Interface

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInformation Aesthetics recently posted about a new music visualization interface from Burst Labs. And, here’s a quick summary from NotCot: “The Discover interface of Burst Labs is mesmerizingly brilliant ~ and there’s a melody for every mood you could possibly feel or imagine, and truly one of the most refreshing flashy user experiences i’ve encountered…
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Last.fm Music Visualization

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLee Byron at megamu.com has posted an article illustrating some visualization using the Last.fm social music service.

Alanis Parody ;)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is smart, funny, and a great track! Alanis Morissette does a parody of the song “My Humps” from the Black Eyed Peas. Parody Original

Fifteen Last.fm Power Tweaks

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom LifeHacker: One of the best ways to discover new music online is with Last.fm, a music recommendation community. Last.fm serves you up new tunes based on a marriage of your unique preferences and the rest of the huge Last.fm community. Last.fm is a pretty simple way to listen to tunes, but there are a…
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Theme Song to Morphing Faces of Beauty

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast December, I was in a bit of a creative mood and decided to put together a video titled Morphing Faces of Beauty. Summary from YouTube: Using a computer generated photo of the ideal beautiful woman as a baseline(credited to faceresearch.org), I fed this photo into a face transformer (from perceptionlab.com). This transformer can convert…
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Pachelbel Rant

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA little bit of music humor for the weekend….