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TMZ gets served by Jackson, others struggle

To follow up on BT’s recent Wacko Jacko post, it looks like news of the singer’s death was more than some sites could handle.  TMZ, who broke the story, was promptly DoSed and went offline.  Twitter had to disable a number of features to stay affloat and a number of additional news companies...

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iPhone/iTouch playback remote for Linux

Posted by bt | Posted in Music, Tech | Posted on 29-06-2009

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Many people are familiar with the Apple iTunes Remote, an application for the iPhone and iPod touch created by apple to interface with and remotely control (over wifi) the playback from your computer. Unfortunately it only works with iTunes. Until recently this was the only software of its kind I was aware of. I was quite pleased with the software but as a Linux user it was of little use to me. I would sometimes use it when a friend’s computer would be available, but other than that I had to relied on a VNC to remotely control playback from my own computer.

Livekick Concert Search Engine

Posted by bt | Posted in Music | Posted on 22-06-2009

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Surfing the web today, and came across this little gem: http://livekick.com/

I’ve used the Songbird extension for concerts, and other tools like iLike and iConcertCal, but I think this web-based free service is probably the coolest one I’ve seen yet.  You can upload your artists from all sorts of services, from online tools like Rhapsody to client side files like your iTunes music library.  Livekick makes it very easy, allowing you

New E-603!!

Posted by bt | Posted in Music | Posted on 19-06-2009

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Mashups have been getting huge recently, and one of my favorite artists, who I personally think is much better than Girl Talk, is E-603.  He just released a new album, you should all check it out at http://www.e-603.com/E-603/TORNUP.html

Make sure to check out his older album too, straight bangers.  I’ll post back once I listen with my thoughts.