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?
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.
For years I’ve been asking people in the music industry “why can’t we get 24-bit or at least CD-quality lossless music online?”. Nobody could answer that, and knowing how the music business works, it’s no surprise that it took this long for someone to wake up and do the right thing.
In a rather silly announcement at CES a few weeks ago, Lucasfilm announced that the entire Star Wars Saga will be released on Blu-Ray in September. As a huge Star Wars nerd, I can’t wait to finally delete my HD copies off the TiVo from HBO a few years back, but then I realized that this may be the last time for a while that Lucasfilm gets to fix some of the gripes fans have had about the Holy Saga over the years. Listed below are nine of the biggest gripes fans have had with the movies.
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When Apple announced its new Ping service on Wednesday, I was ecstatic. Most people use Myspace to find and share music, but I didn’t like Myspace at all. In fact I don’t even have a Myspace account. Integrating iTunes with a music-based social media network felt like two things that went well together – like chocolate and peanut butter.
