Jacken’s Blog

There is this great new application called Tangerine. It takes your iTunes library and analyzes all your songs to determine the BPM of your songs. It can then create playlists using that information. The interface is beautiful and really easy to use. You can also export the BPM info back to iTunes. It’s also very [...]

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Update: I now got a beta version of the software that partially fixed some of the problems. It still does not seem to work correctly with an other antenna.

I was out shopping yesterday with my family. And sometimes you just have to get some new gear. So I bought a Pinnacle PCTV USB DVB-T receiver. I [...]

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Today I had to do a visit to the dentist. Yet another tooth pulled. If I keep this up, I might just as well get myself a banjo and a pickup truck. But now I’m finally done (for now) with dentist appointments. Hurray!

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I’ve been working on a community site for a while. If you are between 16-29 years old, go and sign up. Go check it out

As a part of our project on values and lifestyles of European, Japanese, Indian and American youth, we are creating a youth community on the internet, that will provide us with [...]

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Finally a good solution to be able to play back DivX and other codecs directly from Quicktime Player and FrontRow. Download Perian. It’s free and works wonderfully.

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So after reading up on Xbox 360, I just realized that you have to pay Microsoft a monthly fee to be able to play online for the games you spent a fortune on buying. Fuck that. I’m either going to sell the Xbox 360, or install a chip. Talk about f….ng ripoff!

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I used to subscribe to Audible. So I was going to start subscribing again, but after checking their pricing I realized that it now costs twice as much as before.

I have a feeling that media content like music, audiobooks and films need to be cheaper, not more expensive. Case in point. I have bought more [...]

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