New Podcast Videos

This was a podcast that Sam and I did back in January of last year. I figure I should post it somewhere so that it's at least viewable before Velour's third anniversary.

Natalie's Birthday Present

For Natalie's birthday I decided instead of spending an hour to go out any buy something I would make her presents. We saw something similar at an art festival and Natalie liked it so much that I decided I'd make it for her. The first three pics are the finished product. Below that are some of the making-of pics.

Creating a great discovery playlist in Itunes 8 using Genius playlists

I was excited to see what the new iTunes 8 had to offer when it was announced today. Once I downloaded it I started to check out the new "Genius" options which create custom playlists based on a song you choose. It's not bad. According to Apple it will continue to improve as more people come in to the program. The problem I saw at first was that although it does create good themed playlists, it doesn't ignore songs that have been played or skipped a lot. These are usually songs that I'm not as interested to listen to because they're either worn out or they were never that good to me in the first place. So here is what I've done....

First I created a folder to hold all of my Genius playlists based on songs I really like.Then its just a matter of creating a smart playlist that looks at that folder and filters out songs that have been played or skipped more than once and also leaves out songs that have been played in the last little while. This should leave you with a fresh playlists of songs that you have not yet discovered in your iTunes library. Enjoy! and let me know if you have any other suggestions of good ways to use Genius playlists.

Better than TWSS Jokes

Ok ok ok.... I know these might offend some of my more sensitive viewers..... but my goodness.... try not to laugh at this stuff. I mean.... they really aren't saying anything bad.... so its not bad right?..... anyways..... enjoy.

Something's Not Right

I was in California a week ago and was surprised to see that gas near the beach in LA was about the same as the gas prices in Provo. Then today I saw this graph.... WTF?

ram jam - black betty

Nothin to say.. just watch, listen, and enjoy. :)

New Wider Layout and New Wish-list

I've adjusted the blog to be wider and a little easier to read. Also, I've added my Amazon wish-list to the sidebar so that anyone who wants to buy me cool stuff for holidays (or just because) then you'll have an idea of things which I don't have yet but could really enjoy having around. I've had the wish-list for a while, but it just recently became much more desirable to use with the new Universal Wish List bookmarklet. No longer limited to just wishing for Amazon stuff....