The Participatory Culture Foundation released Miro, a great TV/video app for Mac OSX. Free and open source, just the way we like it.

Everything on OSX seems to be taking on the iTunes UI to some degree - I guess it's the starting point for many an OSX user, and it seems to work pretty well for media browsing. A decent combination of intuitiveness, efficiency, and room for some customization (in certain bounded ways). Consistency, really, has been one of the strong points of using a
mac for so many years, even among shareware and freeware. The randomness of interaction design that can manifest itself in windows apps is one of that platform's bigger annoyances.

Posted by Chris at 05:47 PM in Computing, Moving Pictures | Comments (0)

The German company Optimal has developed a CD-vinyl hybrid. A real cd with 3 minutes of 'vinyl' on top. You can plop it on your turntable with a little adapter (45s, anyone?). Can you scratch it, though?

Vinyl has been enjoying something of a revival for a bit, so while this seems strange in a way it makes some sense. The look like they'll make cool promos or concert sale CDs.

Posted by Chris at 09:09 PM in Music | Comments (0)

Your good fortune thought for the day.

Posted by Chris at 08:28 PM in Random | Comments (0)