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Today’s Rant: Liner Notes
I've written about the possibility of providing digital liner notes with music purchased from the iTunes Music Store, but today I'm going to talk about analog liner notes - the ones printed on paper.
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I’m an avid user of RSS to follow the news, and I use NetNewsWire to manage my RSS feeds and read the news that interests me. I’ve been having a problem with the program occasionally (that is, often...
View ArticleiWant for iTunes: More Font Size Options
I got a new Apple 27″ Cinema Display today. It’s a beautiful screen, and I especially like the ability to make my iTunes window bigger. I can display more columns than before, seeing much more...
View ArticleA Poorly Conceived Download Process: VMware Fusion
I run VMware Fusion occasionally on my Mac, for the few Windows programs (mostly go programs) that interest me. Today, the company released an update for this program, and I tried to use the built-in...
View ArticleHome Theater, “HD” Audio, and What I Don’t Understand
I find the whole home theater thing a huge frustration. The number of cables I have to use to connect a blu-ray player, an Apple TV and a satellite TV box is astounding. The amount of time I had to...
View ArticleDevelopers Outsource Support to Google Groups: Fail
Yesterday, I bought TaskPaper, a simple to-do list manage from the Mac App Store. I had a reproducible crashing issue, and wanted to contact support. But support is only available via Google Groups....
View ArticleSpotify and Bootleg Recordings
Spotify, and other streaming services, are supposed to offer legal “alternatives” to file sharing. Yet are they fully legal themselves? Search briefly for some of my favorite non-classical artists, I...
View ArticleOn the Subject of Applause in Classical Recordings
I recently listened to Stephen Hough and Andrew Litton’s recordings of Rachmaninov’s piano concertos. A spine-tingling performance of these four great works, but which, at the end of each one, was...
View ArticleOn the Subject of “Seriously” Listening to Music
Via the Twittersphere, I became aware of an article by composer Gabriel Kahane about Spotify, digital music, and how we listen now. Mr. Kahane – who I had never heard of before today, and who’s...
View ArticleWhen Good Customer Service Turns Out to Be Really Bad
We’re all used to bad customer service; too much so, in fact, that we’ve come to accept it as the norm. So when customer service is good, it can be surprising; when it’s really good, it can put a smile...
View ArticleAirPort Express Setup Failure: Is 2012 the Year of the Lemon?
I haven’t been doing well with tech hardware this year. I think I’ve had to return more devices that failed on installation this year than any year before. The last one was just last week, and it looks...
View ArticleDevelopers Outsource Support to Google Groups: Fail
Yesterday, I bought TaskPaper, a simple to-do list manage from the Mac App Store. I had a reproducible crashing issue, and wanted to contact support. But support is only available via Google Groups....
View ArticleOn the Subject of Applause in Classical Recordings
I recently listened to Stephen Hough and Andrew Litton’s recordings of Rachmaninov’s piano concertos. A spine-tingling performance of these four great works, but which, at the end of each one, was...
View ArticleOn the Subject of “Seriously” Listening to Music
Via the Twittersphere, I became aware of an article by composer Gabriel Kahane about Spotify, digital music, and how we listen now. Mr. Kahane – who I had never heard of before today, and who’s...
View ArticleWhen Good Customer Service Turns Out to Be Really Bad
We’re all used to bad customer service; too much so, in fact, that we’ve come to accept it as the norm. So when customer service is good, it can be surprising; when it’s really good, it can put a smile...
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