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UserBars and Antipixel Buttons

Recently, a reader commented on my post about Open Source gaming, and continued to defend my post to another commenter. He then continued to link to my post from his blog (quite interesting read). So to bug/Salmar/Questionmark/fortyseventeen (and any other aliases you might retain), thanks.

The point of that paragraph rant was to explain how I began my day researching these user bars…. fortyseventeen wrote about them. He explained them best:

“[They] are an interesting idea; you make a bunch of shiny 350×19px PNGs each showing off something interesting or unique about you and put them in a neat little stack in your forum sig for all to see. It’s not an entirely bad idea, and their aesthetic is quite chic, but the vast majority of them are basically product endorsements—empty expressions of fanboi-ness.”

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Category: Internet around 7:53 pm

Convert RUCKUS Songs to .MP3’s

Hate DRM (Digital Rights Management, the shit that keeps you from having free use of your music)? Yeah, me too; that’s why I wrote this.

hair vitamins for women Essentially I am about to walk you through how to download DRM protected music from Ruckus’s 1.7 million song library (the popular FREE music service for college students) that usually expires in 30 days and can’t be used in iTunes or any .mp3 player; and convert it to an .mp3 (or unprotected .wma) that can be used universally with any media player and put on an iPod (or other not so cool .mp3 player). -For pirating educational purposes, of course-
This is lengthy, you may want to print it off to follow along; though, don’t be intimidated by its length, after you do it once, it’s wicked easy the second (third, fourth, fifth… thousandth) time.

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Category: College, New-Media, Technology around 12:37 am

Mac. Why Switch?

Before I even attempt this post I want to get a couple things out of the way:

  1. Full disclosure: I work in higher-ed sales for Apple Inc.
  2. This is a HUGE topic and cannot be covered by one person in one post. A lengthy anthology should be written by 1000’s of experts.
  3. This is at the request of a dedicated reader.

Read more after the jump.
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Category: Apple around 1:30 am
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Solution to Headphone Mess

Hate the mess that is your iPod when you pull it out of your pocket or bad?

woosh3 has an excellent (and short) tutorial on the best ear bud wrapping method

Click here. You are welcome.

Better Chance of Winning The Lotto

These guys are my heroes!
The following is a ‘Legal Note’ at Oscartorrents.com, a site where you can download all the films that are up for an Oscar this year:
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SideJobTrack + ASO Reselling

This may become my new business plan. SideJobTrack.com is a great, FREE job tracking, invoice sending, client managing, service building web app. This combined with ASmallOrange’s Reselling option, could be a great system for managing the web development I do.

Thoughts?

WP 2.1 Here I Come

Making the jump to the next version of WordPress. May not come back for a while…
Update: Done.

10 Consumer Tips

These are gold! Stores hate the consumers that practice these techniques. Check ‘em out at Consumerist.com. College students should absorb these suggestions and start saving money!

*Unless you are one of the stuck up, Daddy’s-money weilding, private jet flying, Audi driving, shits at my private school!

Ninja.com: Deadly Accurate Google

Save some power search with the power of Google at all black Ninja.com. I do.

Confession: I’m A Twitter User

twitter logoI have started using Twitter (a global away message system with SMS, IM, application, and web integration), obsessively. Check out my page and sign up! Don’t forget to “follow” my feed… I only have two followers :-(

twitter.com/tbeseda

How to Make Millions of College Kids Smile:

Update OurTunes, MyTunes, or Blue Coconut to work with iTunes 7, so we can “borrow” each other’s music again!

Either that or bestow general networking knowledge so that college kids could publicly share their music collection via our huge on-campus LAN.

That was your moment of zen.

iPhone Ringtone Download

Yeah, the fanboys are at it again.

Download the extracted ringtone from the Keynote here.

Unknown, but Useful, Mac Apps

Dustin Bachrach has posted a list of little known apps he uses. There are quite a few good finds. Check it out.

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