Archive for the ‘music’ Category

Top 10 Most Influential Albums for Me

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

In previous posts I've mentioned a number of albums I like.  Taking a hint from various list memes making the rounds on the web, I decided I'd make a list of what I consider the most influential albums in my life so far. 0. Prehistory - My exposure to music early on ...

Death Magnetic is a hit

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

I recently got a chance to listen to Metallica's new Death Magnetic before the official release date.  I can now say that the band is back and that this album is a worthy successor to 1991's The Black Album.  Given the long time between these two albums, it's amazing anyone ...

5 Things I Love About iPhone 3G

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Style There's one thing that Apple has that the LGs and Nokias of the world don't have, and that's style. As soon as the iPhone 3G arrived, a raft of immitators showed up in it's wake. I won't rehash the reviews others have made, but it's enough to say that the ...

MonkeyChow RSS Reader updated for iPhone 3G

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Having grabbed an iPhone 3G on Friday, I spent some time over the past few days making tweaks and changes to what was already done to support the previous model iPhone. Below are the results. As you can see, the iPhone 2.0 firmware now seems to support the ...

Getting in Touch with your Tunes

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

It was almost two years to the day that I purchased my 4GB iPod Nano and just a couple of days after post this. At the time it seemed like a lot of space, but I really filled it up pretty quickly. Apple advertises 1000 songs on ...

XBox 360 is Music to Your Ears

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I’ve been running Firefly Mediaserver 2.4 (formerly mt-daapd) and Twonky Musicserver 2.8 for some time now in my home to stream music from my single audio repository to iTunes and my Netgear MP101 players. This past week we picked up an XBox 360 and wanted to take advantage of ...

Hello iPod

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

We have a new addition to the family thanks to an early Easter present from my wonderful wife (hers on the left, mine on the right). I’ve retired my 40GB Creative Zen Xtra after discovering that I really wasn’t listening to most of the ~20GB that I had dumped ...

getting iPods and iTunes everywhere

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Since we’re very into our music , the 2005 holiday season’s iPod craze brought us some amazing products. My son picked up a 4GB Nano at launch around Thanksgiving, although he had to settle for black since the white ones were all sold out. With the $50 difference ...