Who said that geeks do not love music? What about those music geeks who can name most every tune that they hear, especially the obscure ones? Even “other kinds” of geeks have their own musical preferences!
If you’re into discovering new music every now and then, here’s the perfect application for you: TuneGlue. The idea behind this site is nothing new. It points you towards the direction of other artists that you may not have heard of, based on the artists that you already like. I am sure that other sites like Pandora are coming to mind right now.
So how does it work? Obviously, you first need to go to their site: TuneGlue. (Now if that wasn’t too obvious, then you might need to get yourself checked first.) Anyhow, once you get to the site, you simply type in an artist that you like. TuneGlue will then show you an network of related artists.
The cool thing about it is that you can choose to “expand” each node (a node represents an artist) and get more and more choices. In this sense, your choices are practically limitless! Take a look at how my search expanded. I started with Muse, then expanded Radiohead, then expanded Blur. I also liked how you can click and drag the nodes around to make the network fit – they kinda bounce around, it’s hilarious.
As for the quality of the suggestions, the site is backed up by information from LastFM and Amazon – you can’t really go wrong with that.
No Comments Yet | Posted by noemi at 9:26 pm under Home Entertainment
Try telling me that isn’t cool, and I’ll most likely ask you what’s wrong with you! I have to say right now that I am NOT a Star Wars fan. I love Star Trek to death, but I never really got into Star Wars. (Yeah, what’s wrong with me???)
Anyway, having said that, I think that you should believe me when I say that this apron is awesome. I love to cook – well, at least what passes for cooking – and one problem that I always have is that I do not have an apron to keep my clothes dry and clean. I do have a couple lying around somewhere but I guess they never get used so they get lost underneath the pile of whatever is in my closet.
If I had one of these aprons, though, I would definitely wear it all the time!
One reason: It’s black. It will hide all the gross that stuff that you tend to get all over your clothes when cooking. That means I do not have to do laundry as often as I should!
Another reason: “Come to the dark side, we love cookies” is printed on the front of the apron. How cool is that? I love cookies even if I can’t bake them. Who’s to stop you from wearing an apron that professes your love for cookies, though?
Last reason: It’s quite reasonably priced. For a mere $19.99, you can get your hands on one of these babies. The conversation piece is more than worth it!
No Comments Yet | Posted by noemi at 9:26 pm under General, Home & Garden
I cannot believe that I am saying this, but I don’t. Not really. I mean I wouldn’t mind receiving one as a gift, but I could think of so many other things that I would rather have than the iPad. Don’t get me wrong – I love Apple just as much as any other person out there but it seems to me that the iPad is not what I want at the moment.
Apple critics have been lambasting the iPad left and right. Apple fanboys and girls have been praising it to the high heavens. What is it, really? Is the iPad going to change how we do things just like the iPhone changed the world of mobile phones?
I don’t know, I am not the expert, but for personal reasons, I would much rather get a new MacBook Pro (the smallest model for mobile computing purposes) OR an iPhone OR a Google Nexus One (for mobile phone purposes). So why am I taking this stand?
I like the looks of the iPad well enough. I like its size. I like how cool it is. I like the price. However, I don’t want to be limited to 64GB of storage and not have a USB port. I also do not want to be limited to running one app at a time on something that I will be using as a computer. They’re two simple things but they are top priority for me right now and that makes the iPad not so attractive at the moment. I think that’s a good thing for me. Otherwise, I would be spending money that I might not really have. 
No Comments Yet | Posted by noemi at 7:40 pm under Gadgets
I purposely didn’t write the name of the game because I wanted you to take a quick guess. Now you don’t really have to think long and hard, do you? Ask yourself, what’s your favorite mobile game?
If you didn’t answer Tetris, then something just might not be right with you! Tetris IS the best selling mobile game of all time, and no one can argue with that. It’s been more than two decades since the game was invented but its popularity still remains. Perhaps it is due to some sense of nostalgia. Kids who used to play Tetris on Game Boy or their old personal computers or the Family Computer just want to relieve the glory days. Then again, even this generation is finding the game irresistible!
Still doubting my statement? I guess it’s time to crunch the numbers: there have been more than 100 million PAID downloads of Tetris. Now take note of the adjective: paid. We don’t know exactly how many people have downloaded the game for free (wherever that is).
A short history lesson: Tetris was invented in 1984 by a Soviet programmer. It became really really popular about five years later when Nintendo hit the goldmine with Game Boy. Back then, if you’re old enough to remember, the Game Boy was the IN thing.
Today, one can download Tetris for the iPhone and practically any other smartphone. The prevalence of these mobile gadgets certainly has contributed to the longevity of the game but we cannot discount the fact that the game itself is showing its tenacity and appeal.
No Comments Yet | Posted by noemi at 9:00 am under Cellphones, News, Portable Media, Toys
That’s what we’ve been wanting since the Apple iPhone came out but it hasn’t happened – YET. Just one more day and we will all be able to release the breath that we’ve been holding while waiting for January 27, the day when Apple will be making announcements about the new iSlate (if that’s the name) and the new iPhone (if there’s going to be one).
Speculation has been rife, and we can really only go by small leaks and sharp minds analyzing the situation. Many of them have been right in the past but we really do not know what exactly is going to happen tomorrow.
One thing stands out for me though: the possibility (fact for some) that the iPhone is no longer going to be locked to AT&T!!!
Experts say that all signs are pointing towards Apple partnering up with Verizon. Brian Heater from PC Mag says:
Rumors are starting to fly that Jobs will also use the event as occasion to announce the end of AT&T’s two-and-a-half year stranglehold on the iPhone. These conjectures, it seems, are at least tangentially related to speculation that Apple has partnered with Verizon to provide data for the new tablet. Should that in fact materialize, it seems only logical that the company would extend the partnership to its most prized property.
More so, he points out the fact that AT&T is the weakest link in the whole iPhone thing. I couldn’t agree more. The question is: will this extend to their partnerships outside of the USA as well? Are more people going to be able to get the iPhone? I sure hope so!
No Comments Yet | Posted by noemi at 8:59 am under Cellphones, General, News
Have you heard of the latest hullaballoo in geekdom? Or maybe I should say nerdom. I just read this post over at Forever Geek, talking about how a professor is proposing to ban the words “geek” and “nerd.” Why? He says that their use merely helps in propagating the negative connotations [...]
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