The Missing iTunes Feature

I know I've posted about this in the past, but I'm far too lazy to find the reference. I'm guessing it was either in a five of the now post, or simply in a post about how to improve iTunes.

One thing that has annoyed me about iTunes in the past was that I couldn't export a playlist, smart or otherwise, in a standard playlist format (I'm calling m3u the de facto standard here). If for no other reason, than it would be nice to have the ability to backup my playlists should my library ever decide to crash.

So, I was very happy to find this morning that someone wrote the program that I had on my "to do" list. Here is the iTunes playlist exporter. It will allow you to export your playlists in .m3u format, just as I wanted. Sweet.

Awesome Artwork

I created an artwork gallery for some of Cale's work today. I will periodically be featuring a piece from that gallery on here.

Today on our agenda we had, "Decorating the House." This involved him drawing, coloring, and cutting some pieces for us to hang around the house.

From Decorate the ...

These items cover several spring and holiday items. Contained within are: heart, tree, flower, heart with arrow, 4 leaf clover, cupid, butterfly, groundhog, and hippo (because everyone needs a purple hippo).

Needle in the haystack (aka the ballad of strstr)

Slashdot over the years has degenerated to the point where I expect nearly no value any longer. However, I keep it around just for the rare times where it finds a gem. This is one of those cases.

Any readers of this blog should already have a pretty good idea what I think about Digital Rights Management (DRM). (sidenote - what a nice spin of words to try to make it sound like something non-evil, was Digital Handcuffs (DH) already taken?).

This blog post, courtesy of Slashdot, is just about perfect. Fantastic read. Macrovision sucks.

Sleazy

I don't usually make this blog a spot for gossip. This one's too good to pass up though.

If you haven't heard about the Joe Rogan vs. Carlos Mencia showdown, you need to check this out (original YouTube clip in case it drops off the frontpage of his site eventually). Obviously this is only one side of the story, but the video linked alone pretty much tells it all.

I never really cared for Joe Rogan as a comic, although I always found him somewhat interesting back on "News Radio". However, I never found Carlos Mencia funny in the slightest. In either case, Rogan threw down on him like no other and it is funny as hell.

Must Know for Gmail Users

I've wanted to post about this little tip that I find incredibly useful for some time, but hesitated until I had a good reference link. Well, no better than Google themselves to talk about it, I suppose.

The Feature: Gmail has a way that you can "mute" a conversation. All additional replies to that thread will skip your inbox entirely. Fantastic for off-topic mailing list posts. The weird part is how hush-hush Google has made this. There is no mention anywhere that I could find, other than this help page, that even mentions this. It is a keyboard shortcut, "m", but it isn't documented with the other keystrokes.

Perhaps they are just trying to not clutter the UI with a feature many will not use. Perhaps it was created in the apartment of one of their employees again. Who knows?

Another New Endeavor

It's been a while since I created anything new online. I always seem to have tons of ideas, but as with many people, I lack the time to actually get them out there.

Well, this one is out there now. I have a CafePress shop where I will be featuring pieces of apparel that I have designed. There have been countless times in the past where I have come up with ideas for clothing, and now I have an outlet for them.

Check out the Floydpink Originals shop. It's just starting out, but expect it to grow slowly and steadily.

If anyone has ideas they would like to see, feel free to send them my way.

Update: Some have asked for better pictures of my first item. Here they are:

Weekend Tidbits

Some interesting sites I stumbled upon today, to occupy (I.E. waste) your time.

The first is an interesting concept albeit a bit too focused on the MySpace generation. Share2me is a site that lets you add your contacts from email, IM, and other places. Then, if you have something interesting to share with people, you can automatically add them from a list of contacts and send it to all at once. Regardless of whether that means it sends by IM, email, or posts to a MySpace page. I dig the concept of send once, regardless of mechanism. Go check out the demo on their page.

Second, is something even more tailored to me. A site that exists simply to allow for debating various topics. There are 3 different methods for presenting and arguing a topic. You choose one, make your case, and then attempt to with the debate. I know at least one person who reads this blog fairly regularly should be as interested in this as I am. I smell a new time waster...