Posts about “Music”

Delete your iTunes

Wed, Nov 19, 2008
Not all of Apple’s offerings are shiny and perfect. And when it comes to iTunes, most sane people will agree that this music player is just plain ugly. I applaud Scott Gilberson for calling it like it is in his blog post, “The Top Ten Reasons iTunes Sucks”. Here are his main beefs: It’s a store stupid The library manager is prehistoric No web browser/Wikipedia/anything No plug-in architecture

Musical cross-pollination with the tech industry

Tue, May 13, 2008
If you’re Homo Sapien then you’ve probably heard that song by Yael Naïm. Name not ringing any bells? You know, it’s the one that goes something like this: “La-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la…” Still not getting it? Okay, it’s the song from the MacBook Air commercial. Yes, you know the one (and if you still have no clue, check out this YouTube video). The song is called “New Soul” and was handpicked by Steve Jobs for the MacBook campaign.