Best Music of 2007
This year for me has been one of great progress, a lot of self development, and reflection on things in general. With that, I think it’s the first year where I’ve really thrown myself off into the deep end as far as my musical tastes go, and have diversified quite a bit.
Here’s my list of the best tracks I found in 2007, which you can play below, or if you’re a last.fm user, you can click here to play it in the last.fm software. A lot of the tracks here were released in 2007, but some are much older that I only discovered this year (or that just got a lot of play from me).
MobileScrobbler - Last.fm for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Thus far I haven’t been too impressed with the available third party apps for the iPhone, but that all changed when I found out about MobileScrobbler.
It’s Last.fm for the iPhone, and not only does it scrobble every song you play over WiFi/EDGE, but it also lets you stream your personal recommendations, or play any tag/artist radio. MobileScrobbler continues to play while you browse the Web, text message, or work with other applications as well. Well done!
Quick Facts - The Terminator
The Terminator machine was created after director James Cameron fell ill and had a series of dreams, one of which included the Terminator robot rising from the flames, which ended up being an iconic scene in the movies.
Windows Update
I’d like to go ahead and nominate this Windows Update nag dialog as quite possibly one of the most poorly designed user interface ‘features’ in the history of computing. This thing has come up probably 20 times already today.
I know that Vista has an option to delay the restart for up to a few hours, but really, just leave me the hell alone and let me decide when I want to restart my computer. Otherwise, give me the option to disable this nag without having to resort to complicated registry hacks. Thanks.
Pacman on demand
The above image was generated by Google’s Chart API. Just take the below URL and mess around with the values to produce any chart of your choosing. This is great way to generate a quick and easy graph/chart.
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:85,15&chs=500×200&chl=pac|man
cht=p3 is the chart type
t:85,15 are the values
chs=500×200 is the dimensions of the image
chl=pac|man are the chart’s values
Of course you can change the colours, as well as the type to a bar, line, scatter or even a Venn diagram. Nice. (via IA)
Picnik - Edit your Flickr photos on the Web
The guys at Flickr have just announced a partnership with Picnik, a service which will allow you to do some basic editing to your photos in a delicious Web 2.0-ish interface. Free editing tools include cropping, resizing, adjusting exposure/colours, and sharpening/red-eye adjustuments.
For 25 bucks a year, you get access to “advanced photo editing tools” and “high end effects”, but the free stuff should take care of most of the stuff you’d normally do in an application like Photoshop, which ends up being totally overkill for day-to-day photo tweaking.
They’ve also built in support to let you edit your Facebook photos, allowing you to crop out your most shameful moments, which (funny enough) accounts for about 90% of my Facebook tagged photos.
Google iPhone Portal
More evidence that Google just gets it - their just launched portal of applications for iPhone users is absolutely brilliant.
Just point your browser to Google.com on the iPhone and you’re presented with a seamless, usable interface to all of Google’s applications. Nice. (image from AppleInsider)
New Gmail Labels - Right on
I’ve got to say that Gmail’s newly redesigned, customizable labels are at least a ten-fold improvement in user experience. They look great, and really ‘pop’ out at you now. Love that I can choose which colours I assign to each, too!
Let it…
Hail? This is one I haven’t seen before in Mac OS X’s weather widget. Nasty weather hitting Southern Ontario today.
Geekmas Wishlist Additions
Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up.
Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
More great t-shirts based on fictional sci-fi-esque corporations at Last Exit to Nowhere
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