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More people following Radiohead’s lead…

30 Tuesday Oct 2007

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Saul Williams is following in Radiohead’s footsteps of have the album for free or buy with a contribution ($5 in this case).  Saul, has at least set the free version’s bit rate to be 192kbps and a choice of qualities if you make a contribution. More information at Saul’s website http://niggytardust.com/saulwilliams/

 

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is also indicating that he is likely to follow the same route next year with a new release.

 

del.icio.us tags: music, downloading, mp3, Saul Williams, Nine Inch Nails, free, Radiohead

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Working with MS Office documents on N770

25 Thursday Oct 2007

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To get Office documents onto my Nokia N770 and make them decently readable I’ve been using a combination of CutePDF which a printer driver that acts as a printer driver but produces PDF files along with FBReader. Admittedly CutePDF has a couple of weaknesses, such as hyperlinks can’t be followed from the PDF document it does produce a good reliable results, and its free as well. As for FBReader, it produces nicely rendered pages and is very easy to work with on the N770.

del.icio.us tags: N770, FBReader, CutePDF, Nokia, Internet Tablet

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Scissor Sisters to release fan only single

24 Wednesday Oct 2007

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The Scissor Sisters have announced that they will be releasing a fans only single of ‘Lights’ available only at scissorsisters.com.  The release will only be available for a limited period.  so if you want to get the single, then best sign up to their website pronto.

 

del.icio.us tags: Scissor Sisters, Single, music

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Canadian government choose to tax download purchases

22 Monday Oct 2007

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In a time when all the commercial organisations and law makers the world over are decrying peer to peer networks for copyright theft and critising ISPs for not stopping it. The Canadian government have chosen to impose an additional purchasing tax for downloads with the tax biased against monthly subscriptions (the model that organisations such as the EFF suggest maybe the way forward). For more details go here.

 

This maybe a shorted sighted move to replace declining tax revenues from physical media, but given that organisations will pass the tax on to the purchaser, it is only likely to encourage people to use peer-to-peer solutions more as the purchase price goes up. 

del.icio.us tags: P2P, Canada, tax, music, downloads

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The first Verve material in 10 years released

22 Monday Oct 2007

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The NME have made some previously unavailable recordings by the Verve available for the next seven days. The high quality MP3 download is the first new material from the Verve in 10 years.  Go here to down load.

 

del.icio.us tags: Verve, music, downloads, NME

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Jesse Malin – New Album

19 Friday Oct 2007

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Jesse Malin is back in the UK touring, along with a new album called ‘Love it to Life’ – as you may guess from the title and cover it is a live album.  The album is being released through One Little Indian at the end of the month.

 

 

del.icio.us tags: Jesse Malin, CD, Live, Session, Music

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CD-Vinyl Combo the answer to music media sales?

19 Friday Oct 2007

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With CD sales are falling, and Vinyl sales rising (admittedly not at mass market volumes). The music industry has come up with a new format in to try keep sales up and please everyone. Fightstar is releasing its next single on a disc that is vinyl on one side and a CD on the other. Fightstar’s record company, admits the vinyl-disc is a gimmick but hopes it will capture fans’ imagination. Sounds like fun, but I’m not sure I’d risk my turntable cartridge or CD transport with such a disc.

 

del.icio.us tags: CD, Vinyl, music, sales, gimmick, Fightstar

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Delays – new EP

17 Wednesday Oct 2007

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The Delays are releasing a new EP on the 12th November called Love Made Visible as prelude to a new album.  The EP is a limited release of only 2000 copies, so you might want to preorder on the web from the likes of Amazon or HMV.

To go with the EP there is a video for ‘Love Made Visible’. Click below to see the video.

Amazon.co.uk: Love Made Visible

 

del.icio.us tags: Delays, EP, music, CD

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Amusing quote …

16 Tuesday Oct 2007

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The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

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An interesting twist on the Tribute Album

16 Tuesday Oct 2007

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According to At Ease Web, BBC Radio 4 will be airing a play inspired by Radiohead’s OK Computer.  The play draws on the themes of the classic album.  The play is meant to be broadcast on Friday 19th October in the evening.

del.icio.us Tags: Radiohead , play , Radio 4 , OK Computer

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