Music in the cloud seems to be the Next Big Thing on the internet. First Amazon gave it a shot, then Google announced a beta of their service, and Apple announced theirs two years after acquiring music service Lala. As usual, Google slowly rolled out their beta invites, but this time I seem to have gotten an invite sooner than their other services. Is Google nervous?
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There was a time when I was growing up when it seemed like Hollywood could not put out a bad movie. Starting with “Star Wars” and ending around the time of “Dances With Wolves” and “The Rocketeer”, year after year there was a flood of good movies which are classics to this day. Sometime in the early 90′s, movies shifted from storytelling with the effects as an enhancement to simply being quick-edited eye candy (I’m looking at you, Michael Bay). This started to become the norm and for me personally, my interest in movies started to wane simply because I missed the ability to absorb what I was watching on screen when movies were edited for such a quick pace.
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I have to admit that I’m not a Firefox user on my Mac, but on Windows I use IE for one thing: to download Firefox. However, last night when Apple had a link on their site to the new iTunes 10.3 download which brought you to a page which actually linked to 10.2.2, I was frustrated. The only way to prevent myself from obsessive compulsively refreshing my screen was to get a Firefox plugin that automatically checked for a change in the download page.
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Late last night, iTunes 10.3 dropped to the internet after waiting hours for the 10.2.2 update to change. Visually, there isn’t much different about iTunes 10.3 compared to 10.2, but it has one special feature and that’s the ability to pull music that you bought from iTunes onto an iOS device that didn’t have all your music synced with it yet. While this isn’t quite the full iTunes Match we were all hoping for, it’s still a useful feature for those of us that might have bought music over different devices and never synced them up.
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“There are those who said this day would never come. What are they to say now?”
It’s official, Halo 4 has been announced by Microsoft at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles. While Microsoft said in the past that the franchise was done “for now” back when Halo 3 was released, people expected another direct sequel someday, but not this early. Halo Reach was released last year to good reviews, but a direct sequel to Halo wasn’t expected this early.
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