OK, I tried, I really did. I’m in the market for a new hard drive for my laptop. I did my research and came upon the Seagate Momentus Drive. It has stellar reviews, so I skipped on over to Buy.com and grabbed one for $85 . . . not bad at all (320 GB, 7200…
So, I was listening to Pandora again today. Ron Block (from Alison Krauss & Union Station) was featured from his album “Far Away Land”. I love this one song. So, I head to Amazonmp3.com, search for Ron Block, click buy MP3 (99 cents). From their I had to download their music manager. I was a…
I was helping my 6-year-old daughter with her homework tonight. It was a project on insects. She chose the firefly, so we were debating the ins and outs of color, number of legs, etc. We were at the kitchen counter when she asked a question from further down the worksheet. “How long do lightening bugs…
I’ve always been leary about those “speed up your connection” software schemes. I mean, even my feeble logic seemed to say my net connection was going to be only as fast as my provider let it be. Well, I recently found out about OpenDNS. This is a service that speeds up your browsing by giving…
In my previous post, I mention Amazon MP3 briefly. It’s a known fact that iTunes is the leader in online distribution of music. That’s all well and good and they’ve definitely changed the face of how music is purchased by consumers. My beef with iTunes is that in order to play [most of] purchased tracks is…
So, I’ve often wondered time and time again how to get my singing group on iTunes. Since some of our albums are independent of our label, we’ve always entertained the thought of getting the music onto iTunes in order for radio listeners around the country (and world) to easily access our music. Up until now…
I’m not sure if I’ve ever really blogged on Paypal. I won’t go into it, but it’s a great service if you have clients who want to pay you online. I try to keep a small balance for odds and ends that I might need (i.e. Monoprice), but sometimes the sites that accept Paypal are…
So, I run pretty decent statistics packages on my servers. You can get unique visitors and overall hits, average hits, etc. But, that’s always been a bit vague to me. I always wanted to know what’s happening to a certain page . . . . . . and in walks Google. I had heard of…
OK, so I wanted a way to sell my group’s music via download, but didn’t have the time (or clout) to grind the iTunes machine. Well, now there’s E-Junkie. Now all I have to do is upload my music to their secure servers and viola, I can connect through my Paypal account. The beauty is…
Now, here’s a cool one. I haven’t had a chance to dive in (might edit this post later). However, check out www.tubesnow.com. If you are away from another collegue at work and need to grab files, you can set up a “tube” to their machine and grab and send files to each other. Great for…