RIAA Ramps Up

RIAA is at it again and in full force just says after settling with Kazaa for $115 million dollars the record industry is at it again. And as you can probably guess they are after Limewire (seems about right... Kazaa was a P2P most of us used for a while then with the adware everyone switched to Limewire)

BetaNews | RIAA Sues LimeWire Over Piracy

And I do understand it. It is not fair to rip off music or movies but my twist on this is why can't we find a site/portal that we can pay for lossless/unDRM music? The only site I have found in my searching is allofmp3 and even they have been in litigation. I would be happy to pay $0.50-$1.00 for high quality songs I buy. Maybe someone out there can point me in the direction of some "legit" sites/portals that are running such a service and aren't being chased by the courts. People have pointed out sites as emusic but if your in search of very modern songs, for example things you just heard in your car, they don't seem to be the place to go.

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Google Radio?

No its XM Radio with Google Ads. Google has decided to venture into another avenue of marketing. At this rate we will have Google underwear, cereal, cellular, and cars before we know it... hehehe maybe that's a little much. Read the article below about the deal signed yesterday.

Google ads will stream out to XM listeners | CNET News.com

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Picasa Web Albums for Mac

I know I'm a little late but Google released yesterday a Google Picasa Web Albums "Test" (Beta) for Mac users.

The software comes with a uploader and iPhoto add-on.

But there are still users that want to see a Picasa version for Mac be a reality and after the recent release of their Linux version maybe they will.

Google Picasa Now for Mac, Almost

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What’s AOL Doing?

AOL announced yesterday that it would offer AOL for free.

Techdirt: About Time: AOL Goes Free

They realized that they are not going to stay around and keep customers charging them per month but will push more on their ADs. They are doing this as a strategic effort to offer free webmail to customers to hopefully retain the people they haven't already driven to their competitors (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and lycos [who announced yesterday it would give customers 3GB storage space and no cap on attachment size]).

TechCrunch: New Lycos email tops Gmail in storage, attachment size

Today they are announcing that they will be offering 5GB of free online storage for all web users. This service will be using XDrive and will be available for customers around September. The link below will give you a run down on the service features and the lack of limits as it seems.

AOL to provide 5GB of online storage for free - Download Squad

So does this mean AOL is back in the game? Has Time Warner realized a better way to utilize AOL? Only time will tell.

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Setting up Phone As Modem on Samsung SPH-A900 in Ubuntu

Well I started playing with my new Samsung A900 yesterday in Ubuntu. I was able to pair the phone pretty easily so the next step was to configure it as a modem over bluetooth.

EVDO woes

Well decided to test the EVDO on my work laptop (Dell D610) running Windows XP (since I figured if any issues arose they would not help me much using Linux and I would have to use a USB Bluetooth dongle on my G4 desktop so I figured I would do my best to eliminate any issues prior to later testing ;-).

New Samsung A900 Arrives

Well the new Samsung A900 arrived. Very sweet looking. Spent a huge amount of time on the phone with Sprint trying to setup the phone and port the old number over. Not very much fun but is it ever? ;-) Next step after activated in a few hours is to test out the EVDO.