Hello! Welcome to acidlabs. You look to be new here, so you may want to read about Stephen Collins, the work of acidlabs, or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The title of this post refers to many things in life – teaching someone a skill, engaging with clients on work, incompatible file [...]
Regular readers here will already be aware of my low opinion of DRM, not because I think the labels/distributors/evil overlords are on to a good thing but because:
DRM restricts user rights post-purchase – the “I should be able to play this where and when I want” argument
DRM hurts content creators – content creators invariably sign [...]
Never thought I’d prefer a feature of WiMP over iTunes, especially now I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Mac convert. However, good design is good design no matter where it occurs.
Rich Ziade at Basement.org has a post discussing the intelligent use of iconography (more or less) as an aid to visual understanding and boosting of user experience. [...]
February 14, 2006
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At home, on my PowerBook, I happily plug my Creative Nomad Zen Xtra in and iTunes picks it up as a device that I can work with; playing music from it and putting new music onto it. However, at work, where I am chained to a Windows machine, the same functionality isn’t available.
Does anyone [...]
January 28, 2006
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My mp3 library of around 6700 tracks sits on a mini-NAS attached to a router on my home network. Since I got my Powerbook, I’ve used iTunes to manage and listen to this music; having been a die-hard Winamp user previously (it’s still the best music software for Windows).
On the Powerbook, every track is [...]
Jamie Zawinski has come up a very smart way of manipulating iTunes Smart Playlists to ensure you get a great selection for your party. Check it out!