[ I try to keep this post updated and current, so check back often! -windracer ] A TiVo is much more than just a souped up digital VCR. What separates TiVo from your cable company’s generic DVR (other than the awesome features of TiVo service itself) is the wide range of (mostly free) applications you [...]
Archive of posts filed under the music category.
Icon Michael Jackson Dies
Wow. Michael Jackson was pronounced dead at a hospital Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home, marking a sad end to the life of a man who had been a global pop icon since childhood. “Thriller” was the first album (cassette) I remember buying. My sister and I went in on it [...]
Rock Band … well, rocks!
I played Guitar Hero for the first time last Christmas at a relative’s house. Since then I’ve dabbled with the GH demo kiosk at Best Buy and played drums briefly on Rock Band at a friend’s house. It seemed like a lot of fun and really appealed to the air guitarist and table drummer in [...]
An evening with TSO
For my birthday last month, my younger siblings got me tickets to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert here in Tampa tonight. If you listen to any Christmas radio, you’ve probably heard TSO standards like “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo” or “Wizards in Winter.” In fact, until tonight those were the only two songs by the group I had on [...]
Graduation at East High
I took my daughter to see “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” this afternoon. I guess everyone who wanted to see this saw it opening weekend, because this was only the third weekend of its release and the theater was pretty empty … and all the kids were girls under 10, as I expected. “Senior [...]
Take On Me, the literal version
a-Ha’s “Take On Me” was a groundbreaking music video. I still remember seeing it for the first time on MTV at my grandmother’s house back in the 80s (we didn’t have cable at home). Here’s a hilarious version of it that explains what’s really going on. Pipe wrench fight!
What is it about this shirt?
Last month when we were on vacation, I bought this t-shirt at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. Out of all the other shirts in the gift shop, I thought this one was the coolest: it was simple, had no writing (except for the small Rock Hall logo on the [...]
I love my iPod. I #$%@ HATE iTunes!
I love my 30gb iPod Video … I really do. The interface is simple and elegant; the hardware is a marvel; its changed how I listen to music, and what I listen to: I don’t listen to radio at all anymore, I listen to podcasts (or when the podcasts run out, music!). So why, why, [...]
A new music player for TiVo: Harmonium
I’ve been using Galleon for a long time (since its JavaHMO roots) to play my music library on my TiVos. Now there’s nothing wrong with it, but development has pretty much come to a complete halt. Enter a new HME music application: Harmonium by Charles Perry. It’s still in early beta (only up to version [...]
5th gen iPod Video
My luck continues … I was the winner of a random drawing for a customer satisfaction survey I filled out some months back. My prize: a 30gb 5th generation Apple iPod with Video! Now, there was nothing really wrong with my trusty Archos Jukebox Studio 20 that has served me well for close to four [...]
