Top 5 Reasons I don’t think music on micro SD cards will take off.

5. They’re frakkin’ tiny! Who in their right mind would distribute full albums over something so small?!

4. They would be impractical in larger devices (car stereos, home systems, etc…)

3. File formats. Most CD players nowadays do mp3 and aac, but if you wanted to put them on an SD card in a special, dedicated player then you would need to come up with a common file format supported by all those dedicated Micro SD players that will also be supported by today’s MP3 players without the need for conversion.

2. Audio quality. Not all devices can handle audio at certain bitrates *coughcough* iPod *coughcough*So you would have to make the music on the card at a lower bitrate (128 kbps or so) so it would be supported. There would be no choice to rip at a higher bitrate for better quality. Unless the card just contained a mounted .iso image of the CD. But that brings up the format and compatibility issue once again.

1. Music you can just “plug and play”? It’s less convenient this way because the places you listen to CDs (car, home, walkman, etc…) do NOT have Micro SD card slots. You need an adapter to plug it into your computer to rip an album to burn to a cd *blahblah*. What about the years sony spent developing proprietary DRM-laden CD’s? Who’s gonna break the news to sony that they can’t make money that way anymore? And if you DRM-ify those SD cards, then when you rip them to your computer, can you burn a CD? I do not think so.

Overall, it’s very similar to the switch from vinyl to 8-track, from 8-track to cassette and so on. You re-purchase all your music, buy a new player. It’s too inconvenient at this time to bring about a new physical format to the music industry and to the consumers.

Tips o’ The Day: Art On Your Computer

1: Get a good program. If you don’t have money for Photoshop or Corel Painter, Then get GIMP. It’s a fairly complete freeware editing program that I use. http://www.gimp.org

2: Make sure you have a good tool for your computer. Be it a tablet, or a mouse. I’d ditch the trackpad and go for a small wireless mouse, prefferably one small enough that you can hold it comfortably in your hand.

3: Use layers. Lot’s of layers. Sometimes it’s easier to tackle a big project when you only do one part at a time.

4: Of course, mind the color wheel. Don’t go throwing random colors in your art. They need to work together.

That’s all! Bring you more tips soon.

Fail Of The Week! 12/30/09

Windows 7 is out! Do you own it? What do you think of it?

Windows 7 is here. Now I’ve been running enterprise for a few weeks now and  I have to say it’s pretty sweet. It runs smooth as silk on my dusty old Thinkpad T42, which actually makes sense because it was optimized for cheaper, less powerful computers. *cough cough* netbooks.

While my old GPU doesn’t support aero, I can still run a few of my favorite games on a low quality setting.

With my extensive testing, I’d have to say without a doubt, Windows 7 is the best chapter of windows yet.

Windows Marketplace goes live for WinMo 6.5… 6.1 users left in the dark? I don’t think so.

Windows Marketplace. The long awaited WinMo app store has gone live today. But people are concerned. What about us WM 6.1 users who don’t qualify for a 6.5 upgrade? What about us with cooked roms? Don’t fear one bit, pilgrim. Thanks to !Aman! of XDA developers, a .cab file has been extracted from a 6.5 rom and is ready to be installed on your device. Just run the cab and install Windows Marketplace I tested it on my dash and if it’ll run on a landscape qvga device, it shouldn’t have any problem chugging along on any other WinMo device.

Link to .cab – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4669566&postcount=549

Fruitphone finally getting mms. Welcome to the late ’90s.

Alright. Keep your pants on, fanboys. Apple is finally catching up with the times. Now, I’m taking bets. Which will crash first, the apple servers from the downloads or AT&T from sheer bandwidth overload. Sure, I know you want to send pictures of your trip to Idaho as SOON AS YOU CAN. LOL. I laughed my butt off when i heard posts on the Endadget forums all about how it took about a minute or two to send a single picture message. In the threaded text message world that’s like, a YEAR :O Frankly I don’t care about AT&T so go ahead, send ‘em! Send all of them at once! Basic functionality is the new black. Eat your heart out Moto Razr. You might have some competition.

Fail of the week! 09/21/09

Microsoft Pulling All Original ZUNE PLayers Off The Store?

To my (and everyone else’s) great dismay, news is spreading like that of new iPods (wildfire analogy, get it?) that Microsoft will pull all of the original ZUNE models from their online store and stopp production to make way for the ZUNE HD. Whether this is the end for the player or the beginning of something greater, namely new ZUNE models, we may not know for quite some time. Just kick back, everyone, and keep an eye on the Microsoft website.

MSI X-Slim X600 15.6″ Laptop Hands-On

Pucker up Macbook Air. Get ready for MSI’s new ultra thin notebook from the X-Slim line. 1.4GHz Core 2 Solo processor, a 15.6-inch WXGA display, ATI HD 4330 graphics, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a bundled external DVD drive, a standard six-cell battery and, of course, your choice of silver or black color options. Though at $799 the X600′s price tag isn’t exactly as slim as the device itself, It’s definitely less expensive than it’s Lolcat OS packing cousin. Click the link for more info and the hands-on video.

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