Filed under: Internet — Malcolm Owen @ 11:10 am
So. Um. Yeah. mySpace (the paragon of website design) have somehow decided to block usage of the letter i on it’s pages. It’s probably a scripting error and not something permanent, because we all know that the users of mySpace are firm believers in using the alphabet to it’s fullest…
Wouldn’t it be funny if it were permanent. I envisage a day when the average person’s mySpace day ends up like that episode of the Simpsons where Mr Burns demands an employee not to use the letter E when begging for his job. “I am a good… work… guy?”
..ndeed, ..t ..s d..ff..cult to wr..te h..gh amounts of ..nsp..red text w..th th..s we..rd ..ssue.
Imagin.. if th..y r..mov..d som.. oth..r l..tt..r inst..ad. Lik.. an important vow..l.
(Indeed, it is difficult to write high amounts of inspired text with this weird issue.
Imagine if they removed some other letter instead. Like an important vowel)
[Via Mashable]
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Filed under: Apple, Internet — Malcolm Owen @ 11:13 am
So, thanks to that Coke/iTunes contest, winning an iPod and then going nuts helping other people get iPods too, I’ve managed to amass a large amount of free song credits. 273 to be exact.
Now, granted, I know very little about the modern music buying experience. I’m one of those people whom prefer podcasts and the radio. I’m not one to go to HMV to get the latest compilation or latest album, because I know that they’re expensive per good song I actually want to listen to. As in on an album of 10-15 songs, you might actually want to listen to 2 or 3, and since the rest is really just filler, it makes each of those good tracks expensive.
In comes iTunes. A music library that charges per track at a very reasonable price. You can pick and choose the tracks you want to buy from the albums (although you do save a tiny bit by getting said album) and ignore anything else that doesn’t tickle your fancy. This is a good thing, and makes music buying more attractive to me. As in potentially cheaper.
(Side Note: Apple makes it relatively simple to buy a song or album, in terms of the buying experience. Some online stores could learn from this…)
I now have 250 credits remaining. What was the first song I bought off iTunes?
Walkie Talkie Man by Steriogram. A Fantastic song.
“Schmack!” (Steriogram)
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Filed under: Apple, Gadgets, Internet, Other — Malcolm Owen @ 1:20 am
So. Yeah. Coca Cola is doing a contest to win stuff. Entering codes via text or the website enters you into a draw. Every minute they give away 15 iTunes song credits, and every hour they give away an 80GB iPod from Apple, and you get entered into both draws automatically.
I like Coke, funnily enough, so I just bought the smaller bottles instead of the larger ones, not only for more entries due to liquid volumes, but also because the smaller bottles had 2 entries each. I’ve tried a few times between 2am and 3am (partly because I have late shifts at the moment, partly because I doubted that many people would be awake or bother to put codes in at that time), entering a few labels to see what the wins to labels ratio is. In total, I had 104 entries (52 labels, half are me, half are picked up from friend’s bottles whom didn’t bother with the contest. At least I didn’t scavenge the bins at all…) winning me 96 song credits. That is an admirable ratio, with 9/10ths of the time getting a song.
However.
Last night, I decided to go a bit overboard, and bought 10 bottles from Tesco, because they were on some 2 for £1.40 offer. 10 Labels, plus an extra 6 I had sitting here anyway, making 16 labels, 32 entries.
Last night, I won 31 songs. I was a bit bummed out from missing that one song.
Until I got an e-mail at 3:01am.
From Coca-Cola Music.
Subject Line: “Great News - an 80GB iPod is yours”
…
My immediate thought was “…Wha? Really? I didn’t think many were entering at that time, but that few for me to actually win the iPod?!”. Closely followed by “…this claim form on this website is a bit of a pain to fill in. How do you click that Submit button?” (because it took me 5 attempts, on both my Mac and my PC, using multiple browsers. Eventually did it by tabbing down to the button and hitting Return)
So. Yes. It appears I now have an 80GB iPod coming. I can now replace my fairly crappy 1GB MP3 player with something that more than does the job.
Next question: How do you fill up those 80GB?
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