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Social Networking

Spotify Radio

by Ian Scott on September 27, 2011

As of yesterday’s discovery of Spotify Radio (my Spotify app must have updated itself when I restarted my computer), I am now officially abandoning normal Pandora, Last.fm, and iTunes use.

There’s just no reason to use them anymore. Spotify does it best, and for either $5 or $10 a month, it’s one of the best online services you can subscribe to (there’s a free version too if you make zero dollars annually).

(Via Doobybrain.com.)

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$99 D.I.Y. Homes

by Ian Scott on September 4, 2011

 

Bank won’t lend to you because of the mortgage crisis? No problem! Tumbleweed Tiny House Company makes cute little homes that start from the bargain price of $99!

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I am a First Generation User of Google+

by Ian Scott on July 10, 2011


Add me to your Google+

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Google+ cheat sheet

by Ian Scott on July 8, 2011

Since there’s been quite a lot of new people getting in to Google+ today, I thought I’d share this ‘cheat sheet’ that’s been doing the rounds. Hopefully it’ll help some of you newbies get better orientated. :)

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Turn Google+ Into Facebook

July 1, 2011

The social networking wars have dialed it up to 11 this week, with Google unleashing its highly anticipated (and highly leaked) Google+ social initiative upon the world on Tuesday — to not a bad response, to be honest. So it’s not that surprising that today Facebook countered the + hubbub with its own ‘we’ve got [...]

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Meet Your Newest Social Network Google+

June 29, 2011

After long speculation, Google is officially introducing the company’s Facebook rival today, named Google+. It has a number of unique features to the service. Plus, there is no sign up required for anyone with an active Google account. But is this really the Facebook killer we have been waiting for? Google+ has five different points [...]

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Click image to make some music

April 17, 2011

CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC Ok, so vertically you have a scale of tones. The squares across any row horizontally are all the same note, but different beats. So clicking multiple squares in the same column makes a chord as the notes are voiced simultaneously. You can make patterns of rhythm, syncopation and [...]

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Happy 30th Birthday, ZX81!

March 12, 2011

In 1980, British company Sinclair released their ZX80 computer for $199.95. One year later, they released the new and improved ZX81 . Compared to the ZX80, the ZX81 was much cheaper, at only $99.95, the first computer for under $100. The ZX81 has the same microprocessor and runs at the same speed as the ZX80, but it [...]

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