AmazonMP3 better than iTunes

Amazon has launched their new music

download site. Most songs are 99 cents some songs are only 89 cents

I believe iTunes has real competition in the music download arena.

Amazon’s downloads are DRM free MP3 files. With no copy restrictions so you can play the music you buy on any device you want.

I downloaded a couple of songs today to try it out and they downloaded a 256 bit version installed themselves into the My Music file of my computer along with the cover art.

Not all the record labels offer their music with out restriction but the tide is turning

I am very impressed by how well it works. Well done Amazon

Google Earth and Sky

Google Earth has done it again the newest version of Google earth lets you explore the universe as we have explored the Earth

Video Jug to the rescue

Are you dreading the Christmas party coming up here is a survival manual from Video Jug

Tune Find

So your watching TV maybe The OC or Grey’s Anatomy and you hear a great song. Now you’ve heard the song before but don’t know the name of the band let alone the song title.

What are you to do? I stumbled across Tune Find the other day. They provide a data base of songs from TV and movies and  if you want to buy it on  I tunes they provide a link.

Pandora comes to Denver

Tim Westergen the founder of Pandora is going around the country and having meetups. Last night he stopped in Denver and had so many responses that he had to do it in two sessions.

He talked about the history and of Pandora and gave us some peaks at new features that they hope to roll out. A very nice evening spent with interesting geeks. All the best Tim and thank you for inventing Pandora and the many hours of great listening and the new bands I have discovered

Today is Blog Day!

Today is blog day a cool concept the idea is you recomend five blogs that are important or interesting to you.

First is Boing Boing a directory of wonderful things.

Second Lawrence Lessig’s Blog. Lessig is a law professor and an an advocate for Net netrality and open scorce software

Third  Anne’s Food Anne is from Sweden and has a great blog with wonderful and mouth wattering pictures

Fourth Pictures I like for a Variety Of Reasons Prety much self explanitory

And fifth the Alternitive Energy Blog

Net neutrality

Are you trying to figure out this Net Neutrality thing? Read Molly Wood’s article. Molly Wood, Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont do the daily Buzz Out Loud podcast from CNET I listen every day.

Invisibility Cloak, the next big thing?

Did you ever want an invisibility cloak? There are two papers in the current journal Science that suggest that not only is it possible it’s not very far away. The National Geographic article gives an idea of how it would work. Sorry no working models yet.

Thanks to Boing Boing for the links 

Ninetendo shows off Wii

Ninetendo's press conference at E3 shows off the new Wii I'm still not wild about the name but it will become part of the vocabulary.

The controller looks great and with new Zelda, Metroid Prime, Mario, Madden Football and Final Fantasy they have a great bunch off new games coming.

Still no price but they promise that we will have it before the end of the year. See the video of the press conference at vgpro.com 

One thing they told us is that the Wii console powers down but doesn't really turn off. That means there will be less time for the game to load and if it is connected to the Internet other people will be able to interact with your game even when your not playing. Is that cool or what?  

Revolution good Wii not so good

I've been a huge Nintendo fan for a long time (can't wait for the new Zelda) and have been eagerly waiting for the new platform. In the current fashion there has been a development name (think Longhorn becomes Vista) and then when the product is ready to launch a new name is announced. 

So the product that we have been thinking of as Revolution will be released as Wii. huh?

Wii what the? There was a rumor that the new name would be named Go and someone has pointed out that Go is an unGoogleabe word. But really Wii couldn't they come up with a better name.