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MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock is off to Edinburgh NOW!

The Last Working Day Of The Month, Issue 42-------------------------------------------(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, July 31st 2008)Hello all, and welcome to this FESTIVAL FUNTIME edition of the newsletter. Let's GO!GIGS TO COMEThis month I shall...

Cheaper DRM free downloads from play.com

Announced earlier this week, www.play.com have only got EMI on board so far, but that's a big chunk of the record industry. The tracks will be free of DRM so you'll be free to play them on any player and copy from computer to computer I think, also t...

Apple Airbook

There's a new ultra portable mac to be announced todday I think, some speculation here on Wired, see how everyone has to comment without reading the article? (Cue replies here, missing the point of this post, if there was a point, and there were any ...

My recommended events

Cool, just discovered my recommended events at last.fm, and I see loads of bands that I like or liked in the past are playing live about now, including bands that I didn't really know were still going, including Love / Hate, Sheep on Drugs, Ricky Spo...

Ricky Gervais

Ricky's on TV tonight, the trailer didn't look very funny at all though :-( here is an updated from www.rickygervais.comHelloIt's the last week of Ricky's 'FAME' tour and there are some newly releasedproduction seats available for today (Monday ) and...

Hacking the WidePod

OK, I have not actually hacked the new ipod Touch yet, I do not have one and have not seen one in the flesh, but I wanted to have a post on subject anyway. I love the idea of being able to go online on the device, but if it's all geared towards just...

The Lesson Of The Smiths

I forgot to say, recently I bought a single, an EP in fact, and it's great, and you should get it too. I was reminded of this by this email update from MJ Hibbett: Our EXCITING new single, "The Lesson Of The Smiths/The Gay Train" came out last month,...

Meet the new boss

How bizarre to have a coronation instead of an election to decide our new prime minister. I'm not sure if Gordon Brown will make a good / bad / better / worse prime minister, but it doesn't feel right to have him ushered in in this way, it's only goi...

How I am the best at IPOD / genres / tagging / etc...

A valued chum just posed these questions by email, and it fired me off in a huge response, so I thought I'd whack it up here too...1. When you have a CD what are you using to rip the CD, what bitrate and what codec are you using?2. what is the minimu...

Radio drama

Here's that radio drama I mentioned last week, it's a 7meg download. It's rubbish, but if you're subscribed to here via the medium of RSS, you might get it downloaded automatically podcast stylee.I'm still having trouble getting this working on vario...

We don't really go out any more

Another smashing weekend, is it time for the next one yet? Saturday I played with the computer most of the day. Had no joy fitting the old big hard drive full of MP3s into the new computer, all the technology is different, the drive is SATA now so I'...

Got the first Darkness EP?

They have gone for decent amounts of money before, here's one just listed, good luck. Ah, here's the perfect accompaniment to the t-shirt I already have too...On to the blog, great weekend. Friday saw a visit from Emma and a rare trip to Chambers. Ve...

Slight repost

Reposting from popex to here, as it's quite newsy:Tickets appear to be on sale now for a couple of Darkness dates in February! They're playing Manchester MEN Arena on Saturday 18th and Brighton Centre on Tuesday 21st... these will be the first dates ...

Blee, spew, etc

Had a wild boozing session for one of the brothers-in-law's birthday yesterday (have I pluralised that right?), and am feeling crap today. We didn't make it as far as the pub, but stayed at our flat, no doubt upsetting the neighbours, drinking many b...

iTunes to support podcasts / blogcasts

Not sure entirely what this means, as podcasts are just MP3s, so it supports them anyway. Guessing, from this comment:"With the next version of iTunes, due within 60 days, there will now be an easy way for everyone to find and subscribe to"that it'll...

IPOD crunch time

Got a step further with the IPOD that won't talk to the computer last night, but I fear it was a step to far... reinstalled the software on the disc that came with the player, and it's gone and formatted the flatmate's 'pod... I AM SO SORRY MAN!Still...

iMac latest

Got the IPOD to talk to the iMac last night! But still not completely there... the IPOD mounts as a drive just fine, but iTunes still won't communicate with it. Found one application PodUtil that will recognise this IPOD, and the tracks on it, but th...

Cheers

We should be logged in to different user profiles... can't get either computer to recognise one of the IPODs since we upgraded the firmware on them... Just realised why the iMac won't recognise them, haven't actually installed the IPOD software on it...

Nice weekend, good to spend some time with friends in Winchester. The journey there wasn't so fun, guess things run slower at the weekend, so over three hours door to door and about two and a half back... Should be somewhere just over an hour from Wi...

DJ BC presents The Beastles

dj BC presents The Beastles, more mashups... I'm guessing these won't stay up long, I heard the A Night At The Hip-Hopera is gone already, though there seems to be a bit more rebellion regarding hosting copyrighted material... DJ BC says "These mash-...

iPod Download

I don't use iTunes myself, but I'm sure I will when I have a bigger setup and can sync everything... at the moment I move stuff to the IPOD and then delete it from the PC as I don't have a lot of storage... Anyway, it seems that iTunes has pulled the...

Apple - Downloads - iPod iTunes - You Control: iTunes 1.2.3

task bar applet for itunes

I'm still not up on what Poscasting actually is? At first I thought i was just broadcasting (through the FM transmitter) as a pirate badboy - but now I see it's something to do with (from Engadget) "an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show for...

Email, weemail more like

Monster email problems today, seemingly nothing can cope with the amount of spam I'm getting. I'm possibly going to get my own mail server soon, as I attract and generate so much. I've moved temporarily from my Linux machine to a windows PC so I can ...

IPOD update

I thought we third generation IPOD types weren't going to get this?Ah, that's the updates for all the different types, my type (seems Apple call it 2.2) only gets: * Compatibility with iTunes 4.5 or later and the iTunes Music Store * Improved p...

So iTunes Europe launched today

That's nice, www.apple.com/itunes/ isn't responding right now, how odd. Still pleased with the bits I installed yesterday, GoogleGet is synching fine when the computer's turned on and the IPOD's plugged in... Clare tends to check for tube delays and ...

IPOD Agent

Downloaded this at the weekend, and have found it quite ace - it grabs RSS feeds from wherever you like (get my RSS here) and converts them and the pages they link to into IPOD notes... so this morning I was able to read Google news, this website, w...

Anapod

Going to install Anapod for the IPOD today, because I'm not happy with the exploring functions of MusicMatch and I can't get iTunes working here because of some Quicktime compatability issue. There's a free trial of it, so no loss...Stuff like this i...

IPOD For Dummies

IPOD and iTunes for dummies, get started with your IPOD.

They were right!

Music match has stopped recognising my IPOD! Could be coincidence, but I tried to install iTunes, and it won't work because of a Quicktime problem on my computer... now MusicMatch won't recognise my IPOD! Could also be I've deleted some other files, ...