Ooh, Shiny, Shiny!

Twitter notes

I noticed that John was using Twhirl to post his tweets, so I gave it a try too. I’ve switched back to Twitterific, it is better at being unobtrusive. I like that it’s a menu bar item, and doesn’t take up any room in the dock (although I keep my dock hidden). The one thing Twhirl does that Twitterific doesn’t is that it displays what UI was used for each tweet (just as the website does). Useful? Not for day-to-day use. Twitterific uses Growl (because it can, not being cross-platform). The default colour scheme for Twhirl is soothing.

» NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center

Record, view and automatically save real-time streaming of acceleration data synchronized with video into a database repository (NEEScentral) with an Apple Macintosh™ laptop computer utilizing iSeismograph and RDV (the Real-time Data Viewer).

Computer says No

Cosmopolitan Recipe

2 oz Vodka
¾ oz Triple Sec
1 oz Rose’s Lime Cordial
1 oz Cranberry Cocktail

Combine in shaker with ice, shake vigourously. Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Serves 1.

[placed here so we don’t lose it again]

The Rose’s Lime Cordial is crucial! Don’t skimp and use limeade or lime juice. You need its sweetness.

Random songs ending up silent in iTunes

So I figured out why some songs were completely silent, while others were extremely loud. The volume adjustment slider on some was at -100%, others at around -20%, and some at +100%. That would explain it I guess. I have no idea how these sliders got changed — there’s no pattern to it.

» The Complete Guide to Rebuilding or Cleaning Your iTunes Library | iLounge

I’ve bookmarked this more as insurance than necessity…

» Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft

Deutsche Grammophon gets it. They have over 600 out-of-print CDs available as 320bps MP3 downloads (for purchase). There is absolutely no reason why other labels cannot do this too! Law-abiding people end up turning into pirates when they can’t find a copy to buy.

Kudos to DG.

merlin:

Hüsker Dü- Zen Arcade, Side 2 (tab)

One of the most cathartic sides of punk in the 1980s — both to listen to and to play.

Good find! That is probably my all-time favourite album, and one of the best double albums ever. Although I like side 4 the best, I can’t help but crank it every time I hear Turn On The News.

I’ve got Cocoalicious working. The trick is to install beta45 instead of beta43, and then change the API address. Somehow I had installed b43 thinking it was the latest and greatest. It’s not.