Archive for June, 2007

  • 26 Jun

    Posted by
    mizidy


    Category

    Stars In Your Eyes

    1

    ITunes: Categorize iTunes tracks based on star rating

    It is kinda funny that this was posted on Lifehacker today. This afternoon I got interested in using some of the iTunes Smart Playlist features due to an article about a Do-It-Yourself Smart Radio Station, so I decided to check out some automatic rating programs. They didn't really work, which sucks when there are over 10,000 tracks to rate. So now I am stuck back with unrated songs and am not sure what to do, if anything, with ratings. I am open to suggestions about how you use ratings or if you use them at all.

  • 20 Jun

    Posted by
    mizidy


    Category

    Zeitgeist

    3

    iTunes has announced the pre-sale of the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins album. As many of you know, I am quite the Smashing Pumpkins fan, so I clicked Pre-Order Now last night. So far I have been impressed with the Tarantula single and am anxious to hear the full album.

    Along the lines of music, I have been working through my Not Listened To playlist on my iPod. When Rebekah and I merged our iTunes libraries last year (now almost 60GB strong) I had made a playlist, descriptively called Mark, of the music I want on my iPod along with a smart playlist that had all of the music from Mark that had a playcount of zero. However, I found myself listening to the same stuff over and over, so now I just sync the Not Played stuff to force myself to listen to everything at least once in alphabetical order by Artist. This has actually been nice because I am getting to listen to some stuff that is good but I forgot about (Blur, I am looking at you). I still have about 10 GB to go, but that is down from 13 GB.

  • 18 Jun

    Posted by
    mizidy


    Category

    Blog To The Future

    3

    I have gotten Wordpress installed now and downloaded a theme so it doesn't look so blah while I work on a new one. I figure this will buy me some time to get a new design up and running. Also, I am looking for suggestions on a new RSS reader and a blog post editor on the Mac. I am considering paying for one or both of these, so I am open to all suggestions. Finally, I did move over the post from earlier today because there were some nice comments on there, so check those out too.

  • 18 Jun

    Posted by
    mizidy


    Category

    Don’t Tell Me What Is Important

    5

    The Wordpress blog should be back reasonably soon so I have been holding off on posting, however today something bugged me enough to post. I hate when people flag e-mails they send as high priority. As the recipient of an e-mail, I decide how important the e-mail is, not the person who sends it. Things marked as a high priority usually are not and I have never had someone come up to me after I havn't responded in a couple days with "Hey, I sent you that high priority e-mail, why didn't you respond right away, " so why bother using it.