I like making things you don’t like. So I made them.
I like do things you don’t approve of. So I removed the comments, and made tiny text.
The end.
Ingrid Michaelson’s “Be Ok” ripped off… by Dell.
Come on dude. Seriously? Of all people to rip off Ingrid Michaelson (amazing musician/social media godess), it has to be Dell (who I thought was getting better at this).
I’m guessing this is one of those cases where someone on the production team has gotten a little to inspired by the song, but this is just blatant infringement, and there’s no way nobody couldn’t have noticed this (videos at the bottom of the post).
The worst part of it all is Ingrid is indie, meaning there’s no big record company to cease and desist for her (the one time they come in handy…). She’s indie. She’s not overflowing with money. For goodness sake, the music video for the song is for cancer research. Give the girl a break and use her song, credit her, and pay her some friggin’ money.
And ask permission, please.
The Original:
Warner Music Norway calls student a brat on Twitter
You know, you always though Twitter was for connecting users and companies, not insulting them. Warner Music called out an 18 year old after he tweeted: “I’m pissed! iTunes is only allowing downloads of the new Dave Matthews Band album if you live in the US! And they complain about pirating”. (original, in Norwegian).
A Warner A&R Manager replied: “Then I suggest you steal it and write about the process in your stupid brat blog. We don’t want you to get upset.”. (original)
The rough translation of the tweets leave something to be desired, but you can see the whole story in english.
Capo.app
Capo is the ultimate app for learning a guitar solo. You drop in a song, and Capo can adjust the pitch and speed of the song for you to learn any song you’d like (well, any DRM free song). The functions themselves work suprisingly well; bending pitch and adjusting speed often distorts the song, but little distortion was found when I tried.
Capo is $40 introductory (this is a bit high for two features if you ask me), and will soon be $50.
Now, if you can rip out vocals, change the pitch and export, i’ll buy that.
IE6 Update
A lying, deceiving, devious and absolutely brilliant way to con IE 6 users into updating their site.
Although this isn’t the way to go per say, I would definitely begin to put javascript based messages up on your site to upgrade to IE 8.