links for 2008-09-30
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Could this be the first step towards us all watching our 3D home movies in 10 to 15 years time?
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
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Apple to Make iTunes 8 and iPod Accessible to the Blind
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Once again Apple are striving to make their products accessible.
Your Music Anywhere Via The Web With blueTunes
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A new web service for listening to your own music, not sharing it, has been launched today. Called, blueTunes, it allows users to upload their music collection and listen to it via the web. Going on holiday? Take a laptop and your music will follow. At a party that lacks decent music? (We’ve all been in that situation I’m sure!) Login and blast a few of your favorites favourites!
links for 2008-09-21
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Get Fit 4 Christ — described as a "faith based fitness business".
Whatever next? Shag for poverty? Smoke for World Peace? McCain for President?
Also a prime example of an ill-conceived design brief.
How Apple Could Improve iTunes Genius
Genius was introduced in Apple iTunes 8. It is a feature that enables users to created playlists of music that ‘go together well’.
Since its introduction iTunes Genius has had an unfair amount of criticism. While it is not perfect, Genius is a useful tool which will improved upon given time.
While Genius relies on mass user input to work perhaps Apple should consider joining forces with some software and web-based services that already exist to greatly improve the feature.
Firstly, when I first read about Genius (before the official launch) I thought it would actually analyse the music itself rather than just data about user music collections and playing habits.
