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First things first: play the tape. Its ill, I promise.
Okay, mint.
So since finishing work today, and returning home; I have been perpetually blown away by sick online technology… yes I’ve been online since i got home.. *shame*
Usually, these occasions might occur on a monthly, or bi-monthly basis. Today however, is different.
First I downloaded Google Chrome. Far out. These guys at Google are unbelievable. They’ve built a new web browser from the ground up. I would try to explain all the ins and outs of it, but if you’ve got the time this comic that was leaked from Google themselves is incredibly cohesive. 
Basically its a clean as, simple and incredibly functional browser. Hell, it even has its own ‘task manager’ so you can kill troublesome and pesky processes, say a flash plugin that crashes or something. (and im assuming it’s google gears that is currently letting me change the CMS windows from wordpress to the size I want.. you good carnts)
So if you have Windows, go and get Chrome now. Just do it. shut up.
Second. One of my mates i was talking to online suggested i take a look at Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens). For CoolIris you need Firefox, so don’t go deleting it already.
Using CoolIris, you can visually browse images in a very cool way. As you can see in the picture below-left, you can navigate these images as if they were all stuck to a wall
- CoolIris
CoolIris seem to have worked pretty damn hard to obtain some pretty big time partners. Amazon, Google Images, Flickr, DeviantArt, SmugMug, Photobucket and YouTube are all searchable with CoolIris.
It is so damn slick. I entered the URL for my photography site, and instantly all my images were on a ‘wall’, and I could zoom in for a closer look with incredible ease. Hovering over any image would bring up its metadata in a transparenty cool sortof way, and dragging along the bottom allows you to dip skip past all the images, as quick as you like, or at your leisure. A fast connection would really show this thing off eh.
Amazon particularly takes on a new life. I’m not one to browse on Amazon a lot. Sure I’ve made the odd purchase, but this just makes it so bloody easy.. Maybe I’m just a more visually stimulated person, but cmon… search for something you’d potentially want to buy on Amazon, and tell me this isn’t a mint way to window-shop. Then if you require further convincing, have a search on youtube. Slick.
Lastly. The tape you see at the top of this post (and that you’re hopefully still listening to), was very, very easy to set up. I found out about Mixwit on this random blog somehow – cheers random blog pal – and was able to set up the Mixwit tape (that you should be listening to) atop this page. You can provide Mixwit with the URL of an mp3 you have hosted somewhere, or you can use its 2 built in search engines to find the tracks that you want. i was prety stoked to find some Atmosphere, it seriously took about 3-4 minutes from start to finish to make this thing.
What I really wanted to do, and will suss out how to do soon, is to make a tape with a bunch of my old tracks on it, and put that on here… so stay tuned.. with your finger on the pause button.. ready to make that dope tape.
Best of all, is that all of these things that I have been blown away by, on blown away day.. are FREE… Fantastic.
Duno how far behind the 8-ball I am with all this stuff (well chrome was released today.. so hopefully not too far) but it’s impressive nonetheless.
Hah so that’s a bit of a rant. You may have enjoyed it, you may not have. Thats the nature of these things.
Have a minter.
Leary.
Fluke/Creative 