Random Music News for Friday, April 14, 2017
Unless my calculations are off, the last time Good Friday fell on April 14 was 1933. And now in music news for April 14… Here’s an actual job interview question from an ad
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Random Music News for Wednesday, September 30, 2015
A brand new plane called the 747 was rolled out on public display for the first time on this day in 1968. And now, airlines are slowly phasing it out because four-engine jets
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Apple’s Secret Rickroll
If you have v2.0 of Apple Watch, there’s a Rickroll hiding in plain sight. Instructions are on Apple’s website. Well played, Apple. Well played. (Via Cult of Mac)
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Wait: There’s an FM Chip in the Apple Watch?
You may have heard that a series of telcos in the US have agreed to turn on the FM chip inside mobile phones connected to their network, including iPhones. That’s right: your smartphone
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Meanwhile, in the World of Apple…
Item 1: Oh, dear. The Apple Watch isn’t doing well, apparently. From the Daily Mail: Sales of the Apple Watch have fallen by 90 per cent since the initial surge in April, according
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Geets&Beats Podcast, Episode 107: Whale of a Timewaster
So I’m back in Singapore, sweltering in the equatorial humidity as I attend the annual Music Matters Conference in an effort to spread the Gospel of Geeks&Beats. I count two converted disciples so
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Geeks&Beats Podcast, Episode 106: Give Me a Stevejob
For this show, Michael had his usual glass of scotch but I was relegated to a bottle of cranberry juice as I strove to flush out any remains of a kidney stone (or
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Geeks&Beats Podcast, Episode 105: The Bank Awakens
So I left the baby bull terrier alone for just a minute–a minute!–and when it got too quiet I got suspicious. And with good reason, too. She’d eaten a hole in the mattress–on
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Volkswagen’s Connected Car Connected to Apple Watch
I haven’t ordered my Apple Watch yet–soon, maybe today–but I’m hanging back a bit to see how things shake out with the watch’s apps. Almost all the third party apps were created without
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Geeks&Beats Podcast, Episode 104: You Like Nickelback. You Know You Do.
I finally kicked the monkey pox I brought back from Borneo only to find out that everyone I seem to know has some kind of weird laryngitis thing that hangs around for a
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Yes, the Blendtec guy is back. It was just a matter of time before he did this, right?
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