I ran across this the other night. Not sure if anyone here has seen any of her stuff, but it is really good. I especially like this little diddy.
ENJOY!!!!!
A 12″ record, a 7″ record, and a CD-ROM. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I have been meaning to post about this for a month or two. I have a decent sized mp3 collection. And I have subscribed to services such as Rhapsody, MOG, Rdio, and current favorite: Spotify. But the subscription model leaves me owning nothing. This is especially true of newer music or music I didn’t explore back when I bought CD’s and used more nefarious methods to get my music. Now, I fully recommend a subscription service. Nothing beats using them for discovering music. Heck, Spotify can be as cheap as free if you don’t mind forgoing mobile access and having a few advertisements.
With all that said, the state of actually buying music couldn’t be better. The competition between iTunes, Amazon MP3, and Google’s Play store is a heated battle. This has led to each marketplace having some pretty great sales. In my opinion, Amazon takes the cake in this part of the marketplace. They have done 100 $5.00 albums which change each month for a long time. But they also do a weekly themed sale of $2.99 albums. These sales are amazing. Don’t let the price fool you. Amazon has done a great job using social media, including Twitter, to get the buyers voice to curate the artists and albums on sale each week. This leads to a smaller but more focused sale that looks like a best of collection set around the theme for the week. Due to my diverse tastes I am usually buying 1-3 albums each sale and it is costing me less that one full price album. Add into the fact that the opportunity to earn $ credit on Amazon is very easy. If you follow them on Twitter @amazonmp3 you will get opportunities galore to add a dollar or two with no real effort. Which doesn’t sound like much unless you can buy an entire album for $2.99.
This weeks theme is “Turned Up to 11″ which does in fact include Spinal Tap and a bunch of great rock albums. What to buy?..What to buy?
Maybe it’s a sign that a jealous type but I think unboxing videos are a blight on the internet. In my personal opinion the hamster dance has more merit than any unboxing vid. That is why the above compilation of Nexus 7 unboxing fails gives me unmitigated pleasure. Watch as TV personalities and bloggers try to break into the Fort Knox of boxes that encapsulates the Nexus 7.
A media streaming ball to be precise. It’s called the Nexus Q. It is a media streaming device designed to allow any Android devices in the area to que up content such as music and videos from the cloud and Play Store. It’s cost is concerning compared to that of the Nexus 7 tablet. For a content streaming device that needs a TV or monitor, $299 seems a bit steep. One wouldn’t have blamed google for the pricing being the opposite between the two devices. But there are other considerations at play “cough Kindle Fire cough”. It is made in America. And this seems to be brought up when discussing price on the Nexus Q. I say: so are Vizio electronics and they make some great affordable electronics in the US. Strange product, stranger price.
Android version 4.1 “Jellybean”,1.3Ghz quad core processor, NFC, Front facing camera and a 1200×800 screen.
More importantly though:
*Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, and more importantly any high-end tablets are now completely obsolete.
Why?:
1.With the announcement came news of the play store adding the ability to sell TV Shows (seasons and episodes), Movies, and Magazines Google puts itself in as a major player in content distribution. Their previous lack of content is what opened the door and allowed Amazon to compete in the tablet market in the first place. Remember, the Fire is not pure android it is a skinned version that highlights Amazon’s content. This made complete sense at the time but, no longer has the pull it did previous to today’s announcements. Amazon should have done their best to parter with google and provide content directly in Android rather than make the Kindle Fire. Now they have to fight off Apple and Google in providing video content. Ouch!
2. Apps! I have been telling the people I know that the reason that I made the purchase of an iPad over a powerful android tablet was the lack of apps. Yes, yes, I am aware that the Play Store has over 500,000 apps. But, how many of them are optimized for tablets? Very few. I do not see this changing overnight as it will take time but, a single high selling android tablet may swing some developers to target the Nexus with new versions of their apps.
Gizmodo is reporting the leaked images and specs of a new Google Nexus tablet. An Asus built pure android tablet sporting a 7 inch screen and a quad core Tegra 3 processor. And the newest version of android with google handling future updates. All for $200 next month!! If that’s the case, many people who have been on the fence might just bite. Amazon’s Kindle fire with its closed ecosystem version of android can not compete with this device. More importantly the price puts it in that amazing position where households might actually pick up a couple instead of a pricier tablet. This is all assumption at this point as this has not been officially announced. But, stay tuned for info on Wednesday during Google’s IO conference.
You may have and old Android phone laying around collecting dust in some junk drawer or maybe you are due for an upgrade and wondering what to do once you get your shiny new gadget in your hands. Even though the phone may seem old, slow and decrepit there are still plenty of useful things you can do with it. Some of the things on this list explicitly require root access. If you haven’t rooted your phone head on over to xda forums for instructions. Every phone has a different method and varying degrees of difficulty and if you are uncomfortable delving into the guts of your phone then I would suggest not rooting your phone. Don’t be too put off of tales of bricked phones though. That term has been too loosely thrown around and it is generally very hard to cause an unrecoverable error. Only the last thing on this list requires root access and if you find that useful then I’m sure you will be comfortable with obtaining root access.
If you are rooted I highly recommend shutting off your cell radio. It will vastly improve your battery life and you can safely hand it over to a child without worrying about accidental calls to 911. To do this simply install Script Manager, download this script to your Android phone, run the script in Script Manager and make sure you check “run as root” and “run on boot” options. Now your phone will run days on end without needing a charge.
Today is the longest day of the year. Which google believes gives you some extra time for a few new Android apps. They have put together their “longest Day” sale and it includes quite a few good deals. Shazam Encore ($.99), Mass Effect: Infiltrator ($.99), Grand Theft Auto III ($.99), NBA Jam ($.99), and quite a few more. Why they wouldn’t call it Solstice, I don’t know. Maybe because it was a bad NES game. Go here to see more: Google Play
Adult Swim has made another silly game. This time it is way more addictive. Monsters Ate My Condo has great graphics and sound but more importantly is fun. Characters designed by the crew that brought you games like Robot Unicorn Attack and Snoticles. I grabbed it for my iPad but it is available for iPod/iPhone and android devices on the play store. Well worth the $.99 to make monsters eat sections of a building while the music pumps out hints of Dubstep. Easy to lose some time on this one. Like Rampage….only on Crack sprinkled with LSD.
Cards Against Humanity: While this has technically been on the market for a while it has become a smash hit leaving it sold out for quite some time. It is basically a card game like Apples to Apples but for horrible people. I can not wait to get my hands on a set.
