(r) = rhapsody playlists, (v) = video, (lv) = "bloody portal wanabes", launch video (ies) = "Internet Exploder sucks, but its required", (M) = 3.x+ Rhapsody Musician Reference, (A) = 3.x+ Rhapsody Musician/Album References, otherwise.. (____) = ____ is what it is.
This site is managed with GVIM, Filezilla and PHP, yeah I code my own stuff..
Due to the nature of this blog, archives have to be provided in seperate locations, to
get back to the most recent blog, simply click on the default link. The site will always
link to the most recent one.
Blog Archives: [Current, 2007], [2006], [2005].
For You Lazy YouTubers: YouTubeify It Bookmarklet + FREEDB = Easy YouTube music searches.
For Those Who Haven't Patience To Use YouTube: CHANN3L Z - What If YouTube was TV. (NEW!!!, 2/07) Quicktime (30MB), YouTube One and Two, Tutes.
Cheapest way to podify yourself: Buy this mp3 player  (I own two of these with 1 gig SD cards  ) (--> DEMOSTRATION VIDEO)
Cheapest way to listen to audio:Dell A215, Get Some Clip On Headphones, Sound Blaster Live!
Best way to veggitate:
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| www.chann3lz.com | Youtube + Me = Chann3lz, a completely random music video playing jukebox of content, managed by the audience, no registration necessary, all mechanism, no policy.. |
| www.youtube.com | Videos, Videos, Videos and more Videos, and you don't have to download anything, you don't even really need a Video Codec. It's all FLASH!! |
| Tubeify Everyhit | Take YouTube, Combine with Everyhit.com, What Do you get? |
| iTunes | How-to-install iTunes (v) here is a downloadable tutorial (v) if you have a slow line. |
If you want your own netcast (netcast = podcast, Apple is trademarking podcast), but are not sure how to set one up, get my drop-it-in netcast generator script. Script is provided as-is, use at your own risk, thus I'm not liable if somehow you don't get it to work or it eats your cattle and causes you to lose a bunch of money.
My tutorials require Real Video not because I'm a Real-Rhapsody fan, but because RealVideo happens to be the best format for low-bandwidth tutorials
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Rhapsify Everyhit.com looks for albums of a date range precise to a month, providing links to rhapsody-online (and YouTube).
YouTubeify Everyhit.com is much better for tracking down music videos to precise songs on "YouTube.com".
BEST WAY TO PERUSE YOUTUBIFIED LINKS
- go to url "about:config" in address bar of firefox browser.
- toggle 'browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs' to true (pre 1.5; post v1.5, search Advanced Options )
- then middle mouse click on each youtubified search link
- click on the videos, bookmark, make into playlists, enjoy..
My Channel(s) on YouTube: rofthorax and riseofthethorax (hey try this one).
How Fast Is Your, Connection, Really!! a script I wrote that computes data connection uproute/downroute rates (here is mine, Comcast).
Where to Find Quicktime Pro Forums (and many disgruntled owners): Quicktime for Windows Forum.
Best way to secure your computer: Grisoft AVG (free), ZoneAlarm (free*!) {flash demo}, TCPView (free) {for semi-advanced users}.
Best way to discover music besides this one: Coverville.com
Best way to access your computer remotely: VNC, in particular TightVNC (stay away from www.gotomypc.com)
Best way to obtain/distribute huge files (bit-torrent clients): Azureus
Best way to make backups: Knoppix (Linux/DVD*R), Audiograbber (CD2mp3), DVD Shrink (FreeDVDBackup)
Free Knowledge: UC Berkeley Courses (no credit)
Interesting netcasts for programmers: Software Engineering Radio
How to painlessly publish/purchase a book: LULU.COM
Best of the Best (non-obnoxious): 46 freeware utils
Best webhosting: Geocities (free, commercially scaleable), phpwebhosting (commercial with ssh/sftp-access), Find Hosting.
Best information resources: Google (no brainer), Wikipedia (def)
Best place to lust for synthesizers: Vintage Synth Explorer
Best way to convert wikipedia articles to sound TextAloud, the Eddie voice, and my custom UserTranslations.chl file (put in install directory). TA also comes with a firefox/IE plugin that will read web pages for you, making it easier.. I use it when I hate reading web pages..
Alternative Content Discovery: Blogdigger, WebJay
Trouble Viewing Videos? You need some Codecs: Matroska Pack (good), free-codecs (works, but it may have a Trojan)
Need to convert Media format X to media format Y? Use Mediacoder its a freeware media swiss army knife, that is supposedly open source (its on sourceforge, huh?).
Need to convert video formats that Mediacoder doesn't? Use AVS Convert , I own a copy myself, and it lets me do stuff with Quicktimes and WMV's that neither Microsoft nor Apple will permit me (note the site looks kinda cheap, but the program isn't.
My most favorite rhapsody playlist: Smooth And Punchy Playlist
My most favorite bands (and most played): Level 42 (r), Nik Kershaw, Cock Robin, Double (not played, on my wishlist), etc.
My most favorite years (musically):1978 (r), pretty much any year from 1976 to 1989
My most favorite movie (note: works, and could be made on a low budget):Brainstorm
Most Favorite Music Video (5/12/07):Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender to The Rhythm..
Why is this page so huge: Google can cache it all, audience is broadband users, I use less than 50% of my quota per month.
Your most favorite rhapsody playlist: The Brian Eno Playlist
Big application wish: SOUNDBLASTER LIVE! PRESET EXPORT, so I can share with you some of my killer rooms.
Say No To Software Patents
Thanks to: JESUS (CHRIST) *, Richard Stallman (AVI, RM, RM2-SP), and the respective creators of these packages and places.
Bag 'O' Tricks Directory lists tips/tricks and reminders and other stuff I would love to clog my header with.
* - Wikipedia is edited by anarchy, don't use for christian inspiration. Christian Bahai is a oxymoron BTW.
*! - I use Zonealarm Pro, which is what that flash demo is demonstrating, ZoneAlarm costs about fifty dollars a
year with updates, but is well worth it, it also comes with spyware weeding software, so there is no need for an application like "Ad-Aware",
"Spybot Search & Destroy" or "Spyware Doctor".
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Companies/Organizations I Currently Consider Evil or Stupid:
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 Why?: Claims to save time and accelerate processing but Wastes Hours of Time Submitting Rebate Offers no Recourse if Rebate Fails!! DELIBERATE THIEVES
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(02/25/08 4:43 PM): I wonder if someone could correlate the shunning of religion to the deconstruction of a capitalist society,
because for instance in the Christian religion there is the saying "give to a man what his works are worth", that's my guideline
for buying software and determining what I will pay for and what I won't buy. My feeling is I've paid Microsoft enough already, now
where is the works, or "where's the beef"? Especially if I can look at Ubuntu and see much of the same thing with more flexibility.
I'm inclined to support Ubuntu because I see it as payment for Canonicals and Linux Developers contributions, but I'm not inclined
to pay Microsoft anymore.. And Bill Gates is very secular, he probably sees himself as equal to ceasar in the modern world. In my
book he's just a guy with an opportunity to pull the wool over peoples eyes, and prosper from it. He's only now appealing to
people as human because he's no longer trying to compete, he's relaxing and kicking it back.. He's in the "win the trust of
people" stage.. It's like something out of an Ayn Rand playbook.. My point is that in a society where there is no perceived
absolute truth, there is a dwindling economy because people perceive money as something that is theirs. Money is blood, is my
philosophy.. If it doesn't move you risk the curse of death. Microsoft and ones like them, produce the perception of quality
products through the abuse of public perception, creating a false positive. Selling a OS like Vista gets money to move, but where
does it move, to Microsoft, and then to where, employees? Doubtful.. What industry is Microsoft investing in? It is software!
Software can be made competantly by hundreds of individuals if not tens. Note, the optimal developer group size is 3 to 7. Anything
larger is statistically prone to failure, unless the code is well structured and simple to maintain. Given that the investment in
software development and the revenue to be gleaned from the sale is so great, the software sales industry is full of fluff, a lot
of it unecessary. So why do I feel the need to bite the hand that feeds me? Because it's obvious that it can't feed me anymore. But
as a consumer, I see the value in the public service of maintaining open source software.. That could be the new hand that feeds me
as a software developer, and is the domain where Microsoft can't compete.. So you can see how things must progress..
(02/25/08 4:06 PM): Looks like I'm going to move bl3nder to godaddy vps account I have. Because the demand is probably running
phpwebhosting into the ground.
BTW, I had something to say but just lost it.. Oh I remember, I was thinking it is probably the case that the more object oriented
you make a program the more easily the compiled code can be backward engineered as object oriented code follows a constructed
pattern, whereas compiled c code and assembly would require speculation.. However at an assembly level if code is written at that
level, it is easy to decipher the processes as assembly code that is written as such is cleaner than compiled assembly code.
Therefore to sell compiled applications you must obfuscate your processes and make unstructured code. Now we know why Microsoft is
so successful. They make the perfect buggy and undecipherable code!!
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