I’ve had my Motorola Milestone for nearly two months now so thought it was time for a follow-up to my first impressions. Since I bought my Milestone, a couple of things have happened: The price dropped by £50 and Google released the Nexus One. Do I regret rushing out and buying the Milestone? Read on to find out (plus view my list of Top 20 Android Apps).
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February 8th, 2010 - 6:06 pm § in android
Motorola Milestone: Second Opinions
February 5th, 2010 - 1:31 am § in playlists
Spotify Playlist: 1991 – M.pathy (The Pod Mix)
I bought myself a Fostex 4-track recorder back in the early 1990s. This analogue cassette player could record to both sides of a C90 compact cassette at the same time and allowed me to experiment with mixing, dubbing and crossfading in the comfort of my own bedroom. But while the world went to grung [...more]
February 4th, 2010 - 12:35 pm § in Uncategorized
Poll: What’s Your Favourite Genre of Music?
Please click-through to help us test our new polling software – thanks! [...more]
January 28th, 2010 - 6:05 pm § in spotify
Audio Drama on Spotify: Blake’s 7
On 21 December 1981, the BBC aired the last episode of cult science-fiction show Blake’s 7. This dark SF drama was originally written by Terry Nation (of Dr. Who and Dalek fame) and featured a band of rebel outlaws on the run from the totalitarian Federation. It had aired for four series befor [...more]
What’s New on Spotify: Resolved! (kinda)
Here’s a temporary solution to the problem of Spotify’s lack of new-release updates. Following my post about it last week (and the related support thread), reader Steve (digithed) suggested reading Spotify’s metadata API with a query on albums tagged as new. Coding wizard Andy Smit [...more]
January 20th, 2010 - 6:13 pm § in spotify
What’s New on Spotify? Who Knows!
Up until the end of November 2009, every week or so Spotify would release Google Spreadsheets detailing what new tracks had been added. This gave listeners a chance to find out what was new on Spotify, as well as providing a mechanism for community sites to offer recommendation services based on new [...more]
Three Brilliant Industrial Albums on Spotify
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, my synthpop sensibilities clashed with a healthy sense of dread as I finally discovered industrial music. Bands like Front 242 and Frontline Assembly were my favourites, being at the more electro-end of the genre. EBM (a sub-genre of industrial) has had quite a re [...more]
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