I don’t rate my iTunes music as much as I should, partially because I don’t listen to the majority of my music. I’d say that approximately half of my music is (was) rated, and that it’s about that much I have actually listened to. Then, only about a quarter of my library do I actually consider even thinking about listening to on a daily basis.
Then, today, my ratings were lost when iTunes had a hiccup and I had to re-import all of my music. No problem, I just had to tell iTunes where all my files are again. But I lost all my playlists and ratings. (This is like the 10th time this has happened to me, and this time I’ve actually found a backup solution… to use for next time.)
So I am going to re-discover my iTunes music by going down the list and listening to and rating everything in my library. Starting with “Take on Me” by a-ha and ending with “Valerie” by The Zutons. I figure that if I listen to two albums, or approximately 30 songs a day, it will take… 2083/30=69.433333333333333 days.
That’s a little over 2 months, and I won’t do it completely some days so I would give this 2 or 3 months until it’s finished. Of course, in order to make this work I can’t add any new music so I won’t be distracted. So I won’t be done until the end of July. Wow. School’s almost over, yay!
I figured that if I posted this public self-promise on my blog and spent the time photoshopping the picture above I might actually do it. Or maybe not. We’ll see.
I’m fed up. This is stupid. I can’t stand it anymore. I’ve had crashes almost daily now, and I’ve had 2 instances where I’ve had to re-install the OS on my computer. This is stupid. For the first 3 months, everything seemed fine, but then it just all screwed up.
My Macbook Pro is flawed and I’ve found that all mac software is over-priced, buggy, and there isn’t much of it. Sure, it macs have the pretty eye candy and shiny buttons but it gets old really quick. I’m selling my mac.
You can bid on the laptop or “Buy It Now” on Ebay for $1,900 if you want. I’m using the money I’ll get from this sale to buy a reliable Vaio laptop from Sony. Goodbye Apple, and thanks for the horrible time!
Well, it’s over now so it’s a little pointless to post this now, but yes, I bought the MacHeist bundle about a week and a half ago and it’s amazing. What is was it? It was basically 7, then 10, then 12, then 14 pieces of mac software that adds up to $500 available for two weeks for only $50. Cool.
Surprisingly, I found that I really liked some of the apps I thought I could have gone without before buying them. In short, the good and the bad…
Good:
AppZapper - Only beats the free AppDelete because of the sound effect. And that’s the only reason why.
CoverSutra - Amazing easy, and beautiful way to control iTunes
Pixelmator - Awesome. Just like Photoshop, but prettier, faster, and with less bloat
Snapz Pro X - Presently surprised - love the sound effects
Speed Download - I’m using it and it is a good way to manage downloads
VectorDesigner - Can’t wait to get the serial, great for logos
WingNuts 2 - Fun game, but not worth the regular price
Bad:
1password - It bugs me every time I login but hopefully it’ll stop once I get logged in everywhere
Awaken - I can’t use, because my computer isn’t in my room.:-(
Cha-Ching - I’m 15, I don’t have any money to manage
CSSEdit - I have no need for it (yet)
iStopMotion - In short, it sucks. It’s a horrible app an limits instead of advances stop motion movies, IMHO
TaskPaper - Over-hyped, basically does nothing
Tiki Magic Mini Golf - The serial wouldn’t even work, OK game
Still, even if it was just the good applications, this would be an amazing deal. I’m very glad I bought it.
I’ve just implemented a combined RSS and Web 2.0 sidebar thing onto the site. Why? Because I can. But really, I saw these beautiful iPhone-esque icons at Fasticon.com and had to use them somehow. So I threw out the default RSS “Subscribe” module, and replaced it with a large and pretty icon. Then I used arne’s Delicious (and other services) Bookmark this! plugin for Wordpress to allow all 18 of you to quickly add one of my exciting blog posts to Digg, Delicious, Newsvine, or Furl.
But that’s not all! If you click one of the four smaller icons from a specific blog post, it will take you directly to a page on the service of your choice, with that specific post already filled in! I know, amazing. Not that anyone here would use that very often. But I might… And it looks cool anyway. You can even do it below for this post!
PHP does some really cool things. I really should’ve taken that class as my elective this year… but when it’s up against Film there’s just no way that I’ll choose it.
One gem of a website that I found was MacApper. MacApper is a collaborative blog about applications for the Mac. They have reviews of apps, news on new releases, interviews with developers in addition to regular Mac-related news. The website is a great way to find out about shiny new apps you can download to your computer, as long as it’s a Mac.
Now that I’ve got that out of the way, let me get to the good stuff: The other day they made a post asking for some “talented Mac writers” to write for their blog. I figured I’d give it a try, so I shot them an email with some example writing. They replied and said that it was terrible and that I should go look someplace else, somewhere like Dumboland, because my writing looked like it was done by a 5-year-old.
I’m sure you’ve all seen David Pogue’s sarcastic video explaining how Windows Vista did not steal ideas from Mac OS X. It’s hilarious. This video promotes the same idea: “Windows Vista downright copies OS X.” The audio is taken from someone explaining the “new and innovative” features of Windows Vista, while the video shown is Mac OS X Tiger (an operating system over 2 years old now) doing exactly the same things.
This post is mostly a response to my Uncle Bob’s recent comment on my recent post, entitled “iPod Classic.” He says (among other things) that:
IPOD BAD
Can’t uncorrupt database;
Can’t delete anything using ipod interface;
Must use Itunes to manage files;
Can’t read filenames in the ipod;
battery life about 4 hrs and diminishing
- My Uncle Bob, (my UB) who has had verybadluck with the iPod.
True, true. I know that the iPod has faults, all of them stemming from the closed-shut structure of it. The DRM’d music, the exclusivelity (not sure if that’s even a word) of iTunes, and various missing funcions like a mic, delete option, easy battery replacement, etc.
Austen Squarepants is a 15-year-old high school student and geek. He lives in New York City with his parents, Deri Weed and Ira Squarepants. He is interested in technology (particularly web design), filmmaking, and photography.
Netsua.com is his personal blog and website, where he writes about a variety of topics that interest him. The word "Netsua" is in fact Austen's name spelled backwards. It literally translates from gibberish to "Greatness on the level of Austen."
In addition to Netsua, Austen also co-hosts a technology podcast called the Teen Tech Buzz among other things.
With yesterday (May 12, 2008) being the deadline for Apple’s esteemed Apple Design Awards, there was a flurry of activity this past weekend of application updates.
I’ve just implemented a combined RSS and Web 2.0 sidebar thing onto the site. Why? Because I can. But really, I saw these 
