Links from 2008

WordPress podcasting guide.

Winners announced.

Social-style fork of XBMC.

Promonet was designed to help you quickly find pre-cleared MP3s for use in your blog, podcast or music website.

"Here’s some things I’d recommend that you consider if you’re looking to get hired into a creative company". Particularly like this part: "don’t be scared to big-up other people you worked with".

As you probably know @font-face already works in Safari 3 via WebKit and is supported in the latest Firefox 3.1 beta. With IE, that means around 75% of the world audience could see custom typefaces today if their EULAs allowed it. Fortunately, there are good free faces available to us already, as well as some commercial faces that permit embedding.

Nice way of avoiding FOUC.

"The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music videorecordings. Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint. Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments." One suggested tag for this is "metacrap".

Musicbrainz Pie in the Sky page makes my head hurt. "This page describes (or contains discussions about) major new evolutions that will likely require dramatic changes to the server codebase (what we usually refer to as NGS), or an important additional quantity of development work. "

The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.

Avant Garde Project – 20th Century Classical, Electroacoustic, Avant Garde Music Downloads

A series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.

"Highly Experimental" as of posting.

Urgh. Must not get sucked back in to pointless grindy game.

Your online community and resource for Nudie Jeans, Selvage and Dry Denim.

A file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

The report says that costs at EMI Music were out of control, and that reporting structures were so dysfunctional, management struggled to find out the true picture.

A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections.

"I have been asked by my work place to provide my passport." Not just employers; looks like it's becoming standard practice for recruiters to ask even if trading as a limited company. Something to do with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough.

Allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.)

[A] list of concepts, products, and applications that peer into the future of music and the Web.

Sounds dead handy. In beta. "Band Metrics helps musicians and bands analyze and measure the success of their music."

Very glad someone is doing this. Looks like a good service, but quite pricey and doesn't help satisfying instant gratification urge with online sales.

Accessories made from recycled ties.

Some sensible arguments here.

A jQuery plugin that provide a easy to use and powerful API for creating dynamic Google Maps.

Purchase and download DRM-free classic PC games.

"Hyperspaces uses new technology in Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” such as Core Animation and Core Image. Watch as your desktop gently fades from one color to another, or use the new space switcher to quickly flip between your spaces." A giant "laser".

I suck at vi. I would like to suck less.

"When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new values for the CSS display property, including the table-related values: table, table-row, and table-cell—and it’s the last major browser to come on board with this support. This event will mark the end of complex CSS layout techniques" assuming one doesn't care about IE6, IE7 or source order.

A project management tool loosely based off of Scrum.

GitX is a git GUI specifically for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui.

Will equip you with techniques and theories with which to design, implement and evaluate interactive computing systems for the widest range of users.