Zune Reminds You to Use Your Free Credits
December 30th, 2008Since Microsoft updated the terms of the Zune Pass, users have received 10 free song credits per month to go toward owning music from the store. This is a great deal for Zune users, because $15 per month not only pays for unlimited music downloads from the Zune Marketplace on a subscription basis, but also provides 10 songs to own. (I see this now as committing to buy 10 songs per month and getting a $5 per month subscription, but either way…) (Personally I make a point to only purchase DRM-free tracks.)
I was impressed to discover that recently when I went to click the “download” button next to a song, which downloads the song under the subscription, I got a popup reminding me to use my song credits. I am very impressed that Microsoft would remind its users to get things from it for free. Of course, if the user sees this as a nag rather than a reminder, there’s always that convenient option to disable the popup. Microsoft, hooray! 
“Good” Music
December 26th, 2008One of my friends got a lot of money in iTunes credit for Christmas, so he asked me for a bunch of good songs. I went through my media library looking for songs, picking out ones that appealed enough to me for me to send the title and artist to him. I decided to not let the list go to waste, so I went through the chat logs and pulled out he proper messages. I could go through the list and refine it, but that’s now worth the trouble. 
Ultimate Ears: Pretty Ultimate (Super.Fi 3 Studio)
September 29th, 2008Some months ago I got myself a pair of Ultimate Ears brand Super.Fi 3 Studio headphones. I took pictures meaning to do a blog post about them, and here it finally is.
Packaging shot: 
Creative Zen Stone Plus
December 12th, 2007
Recently I ordered a Creative Zen Stone Plus from Amazon.com, and it just arrived today! Wow, this thing is tiny. And with 2GB of memory, it is still quite light. Learn more about it in my video:
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