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Facebook and Twitter is actually getting fun to use

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eventbox_icon.jpgAs soon as it was possible to remove those annoying messages with drinks, cuddly bears requests and shaved midget tossing games, facebook is getting fun to use.

I’m also starting to like Twitter. I bought this little program called EventBox to replace Twirl because I’m always on a laptop so anything that use up to many cycles on the cpu goes to the dustbin. The program looks nice but takes a bit to get used to. The only gripe I have is that it doesn’t show replies on Facebook status changes. But it’s still beta and only costs $15 during the beta period. And kids, you have to support independent developers!

You gotta laugh

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What are the odds? You come home drunk, trying to find a cable next to the bed in the dark, and manage to pull the cord to my small drill for drilling PCBs. It falls off the table next to the bed and goes right into my Asus eeepc that’s on the floor. And it actually sits embedded in the back of the screen. After pulling the drillbit out of the computer I started the eeepc and it still works! This is taking the term hacking a computer to a new level…

And thus proving the point

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“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
Steve Jobs

And now Van Halen with SongSmith Some Gay Bar

Go EMU! The drivers for EMU 0404 USB released as Open Source

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I’m more and more impressed with EMU0404. They released the EMU 0404 USB driver code for Macintosh. This is a smart move. I once called them about a problem I had with the input pots being to sensitive. The tech support guy told me they actually had to use cheaper parts to be able to use better sounding parts. My god! Honesty! You don’t get that too often when calling a company about their products.

Spotify is going to kick some ass

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After using Spotify for a couple of days, I must say that they almost nailed it. And I have never seen as much entusiasm about a new service among people of so different age groups. The Mac client is really nice (and fast!) This is something the music business should have come up with a long time ago. I think I bought about five songs on iTunes total. I like the idea of “owning” my music, or at least own the piece of plastic it comes on. But the chear joy of being able to just search and ad a shitload of music and start listening is exhilarating. But I have a couple of gripes…

Hopefully they will increase the bitrate. There is a market for people that want the highest possible quality and are prepared to pay for it. Here’s a possibility to actually get better quality than CD without having to resort to half-assed attempts like SACD. Yeah, I know you need a lot of bandwidth, but I live in Sweden and have had 100mbit connection for years.