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Hey, iTunes Ping: What About the Bands?

By admin | Published: September 2, 2010
Update: Commenter Bruce Hoffman contacted TuneCore about this issue and received this response: “Thanks for writing! Not only will Ping have ‘People’ accounts, but it will also have ‘Artist’ accounts that allow musicians to upload and create their own pages featuring their pictures, videos, tour-dates, music recommendations and a lot more. We were fortunate enough to speak with Apple today to begin working on getting the first TuneCore Artists Ping accounts set up. We will be able to get more and more TuneCore Artists set up over the next weeks as Apple works to authenticate and set up Ping Artist accounts for the millions of artists within iTunes.” Plenty of criticism has already been directed towards the new social network that’s baked into iTunes 10 — Ping — with an emphasis on the user (not to mention rumblings about a fleeting Facebook integration ). But there’s one contingent of users no one has really mentioned yet: the bands , many of which are still unable to get in on the action as of this afternoon. Immediately after hearing about Ping yesterday, I sent out a flurry of e-mails to band friends, urging them to, “Get on this now!” Everyone was stoked, ready to replace their MySpace pages with revenue-making destinations on the brand new iTunes social network
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8 YouTube Channels for Unique Music Performances

By melissa | Published: August 5, 2010
Not all YouTube channels are created equal. Some were born for greatness just like the musicians and performances they showcase. Within the viral genre of people hurting themselves in backyards and kittens eating their way out of things is a sect of YouTube channels devoted to unique, extraordinary musical performance. Making this list was harder than expected, and essential performances had to be left off.
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Google Adds Picnik Magic to Picasa Web Albums

By anthony | Published: July 14, 2010
For some time now, Flickr users have been able to use Picnik to edit photos in-stream without leaving the app. Now that Picnik is a Google property, Picasa users will have roughly the same advantage. As of today , Picasa Web Albums users will be able to use Picnik’s editing tools without ever leaving their accounts.
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HP picks up Phoenix’s HyperSpace, HyperCore and Flip instant-on assets for $12m

By anthony | Published: June 13, 2010
Phoenix Technologies, remember those guys ? Yeah, us either . Not that we really minded its instant-on OS or anything, but considering that full-fledged operating systems can boot up in under a minute on most machines, they're kind of a hard sell. Unless you're selling to HP, of course, which is on somewhat of an acquisition rampage.
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HP bringing instant-on Linux capabilities in-house

By anthony | Published: June 11, 2010
HP has reached an agreement with BIOS-maker Phoenix Technologies to acquire HyperSpace, an instant-on Linux platform that runs in a lightweight hypervisor integrated into the BIOS. The two companies plan to complete the $12 million deal by the end of the month. The HyperSpace platform is designed to be used on conventional PCs alongside the Windows operating system, making it possible for users to get quick access to Internet and e-mail without having to fully boot the computer.
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Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week — Now with More Cats

By admin | Published: May 21, 2010
Hey you, taking a break from your coffee break, throwing hours of hours of your life into messing around with Google’s Pacman logo — look over here, we’ve got cat videos! Yes, that’s right, this week’s YouTube roundup features not one, but two vids starring your favorite furry feline friends. And then there’s some stuff about Lost … and some children… and a couple of men speaking with pleasant accents… and then there are some wolves. Basically, this week’s list of YT fare is deliciously distracting. So plug in those headphones, you checked out after the first bite of your sandwich, anyway. Animals AutoTuned: Wolves Brenna Ehrlich: This is brilliant.
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Deepak Chopra Apologizes for Starting Earthquake on Twitter

By melissa | Published: April 5, 2010
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake was felt in California and parts of Mexico and the southwestern United States today, and alternative physician and transcendental meditation guru Deepak Chopra used his Twitter account to apologizing for causing it. He was probably just kidding, of course, but his tweets garnered several amused reactions regardless. They’ve made for an entertaining Twitter moment. Shortly after the earthquake occurred, Chopra tweeted out the following: He explained further in his next tweet , saying: CNN reports that the earthquake originated in Baja California at 3:40 PM Pacific time then spawned five aftershocks, including a 4.1-magnitude shake in the northern California town of Santa Rosa. There haven’t been any reports of significant casualties or damage despite the severity of the initial quake, but the quake was felt as far away as Phoenix, Arizona.
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Online Image Editor Aviary Now Entirely Free [Free]

By admin | Published: February 12, 2010
Aviary Phoenix, a really powerful and reader favorite online image editor, used to charge $25 per year for private online image saving and other select features. As of yesterday, though, the Phoenix editor's gone entirely free. What the unlocking mainly does is remove a few minor annoyances that free users might have encountered before. You could always save your images and project files on Aviary and download them, but they were viewable by the searching public
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Firefox turns five: half a decade of Web liberation

By melissa | Published: November 9, 2009
Five years ago today, Mozilla announced the official release of Firefox 1.0. The open source Web browser has come a very long way since then and has achieved a level of popularity that few would have imagined possible. The success of Firefox and Mozilla's unwavering commitment to open Web standards has helped to usher in a new era of vibrance and diversity in the browser market. To commemorate Firefox's fifth anniversary, we are going to take you back in time for a look at some of our classic coverage of the popular browser.
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New HiRISE Images Show Chilly, Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander [Space]

By admin | Published: November 4, 2009
Mars isn't exactly the warmest place during the winter transition, but as the first few rays of sunshine lick at the planet's surface we're able to make out the Phoenix lander shivering under a cover of dry-ice frost. We're able to see the lander in the images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter despite the low-light conditions and the reflective effects of the carbon dioxide frost. The HiRISE team did have to play around with the contrast and angles to get the image we see, but how many pictures pass without some sort of processing anyway.
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