08 Jun
Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Entertainment, Tech/Web, iPhone Tips & Tricks
I’ve been a huge fan of MediaMonkey ever since it was released, I love the ease of management and the freedom that it gives you (over that of iTunes) is great! I now love the fact that it supports iPhones as well because it so nice being able to put songs onto the iPhone without [...]
03 Apr
Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Entertainment, Photography/Video, Tech/Web
Recently (actually, I don’t know how recently it was, considering I haven’t used my Xbox 360 as a media center extender in quite some time) the Xbox 360 began supporting file types other than Windows Media files (.WMV) on the Xbox 360. I tried connecting my Xbox 360 to my media center and wanted to [...]
10 Feb
Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Entertainment
So like many people, I have an iPod and iPhone which I use to play music while I’m on the go – neither of these devices have very good support for songs or albums that have multiple artists. I also use Windows Media Center to play music through my home entertainment system; the major difference [...]
Atmosphere gave us all a nice little Christmas present today by releasing Strictly Leakage. It’s a full 13 song album “to chase away the winter doldrums”. Quote from Rhymesayers: as a way to thank all of our supporters, ant and i have put together this party favor. it’s called “strictly leakage.” thirteen songs to chase [...]
10 Dec
Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Entertainment, Finance/Investment, Random Stuff
The USPS wants to increase the rate that they currently charge Netflix by 17% – this will drastically decrease Netflix profitability. Netflix will obviously try to offset this postage hike by passing on the rate increase to it customers, but that could result in a loss of customers. At the time of this writing, Netflix [...]
23 Sep
Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Entertainment, Tech/Web
Recently, I began having some problems with my Xbox 360 connecting to my Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center PC. I’d repeatedly get the following error: Connection Failed. The Xbox 360 was unable to prepare a connection to the Windows Vista Media Center-based PC. Restart your Xbox 360 and try again. Guess what… restarting the Xbox [...]
Ready for the hottest movie of the summer? Maybe not the hottest, but it defnitely should be funny as hell Superbad from the creator of the 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Talledega Nights comes Superbad… visit the site now to find out if you’re Superbad. Check out the Superbad official website and take [...]
06 Jul
Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Entertainment, Tech/Web
Prior to September of 2006, you had to have a valid university email address in order to even register for Facebook. Now that Facebook has opened up registration to anyone and everyone, they have seen nearly 100% growth in their unique visitors from the same time last year. Will Facebook kill off Myspace? Wouldn’t that [...]
15 Jun
Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Entertainment, Tech/Web
So ever since iTunes started hassling me with its “determining gapless playback information” garbage, I have been looking for a media player that would replace iTunes, but still support the iPod and other devices, while still giving me complete control over my music collection. That’s how I came across Songbird (www.songbirdnest.com) Songbird is built on [...]
15 Jun
Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Entertainment, Tech/Web
I’ve come to find out that my choice in music molds the choices of those closest to me on my Google Talk list. This morning when I turned on Windows Media Player, Google Talk wasn’t displaying my currently playing music track, so needless to say, this sent my following of geeks into an uproar. If [...]