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Colbie Caillat – Bubbly at Age 21

Have you heard “Bubbly”? Chances are – you have. Here it is on YouTube. I’ve heard it often, and it was only today that I Googled it to find out the name of the song and the name of the artist. Here’s the main section of the lyrics: I’ve been awake for a while now…Continue Reading…

Apple iPhone Unboxing and First Impressions

Since Steve Jobs first announced it, I’ve been excited about the iPhone. My old Nokia is fine, but it scrolls my address book extremely slowly, the camera’s quality is very low at 640×480, and it has only 2 MB of memory. Compare that with the low-end iPhone: fast address book scrolling, high-quality camera at 2…Continue Reading…

EVK has the best music

One of the two residential dining halls here at USC is “Everybody’s Kitchen”– also known as EVK. Sometime over the past two years, I think they switched to a new music provider. I really like the music they’ve been playing for the past couple months. It seems to be all of my favorite songs! Here’s…Continue Reading…

Little features make a big difference

I was using iTunes just now, and I wanted to locate the audio file for a podcast on my computer. So I right-clicked its row and selected “Get Info.” That brings up a window which has the path of the song, but this field is not left-click selectable. (I use iTunes 7.1.1.5.) I was afraid…Continue Reading…

iPod Software Version History?

Today iTunes prompted me to download and install a new iPod software version (1.3). I don’t like downloading updates without knowing what they changed, so I tried looking for a version history. I couldn’t find one. The closest thing was the iTunes version history on Wikipedia, but it doesn’t seem to cover iPod software. Is…Continue Reading…

Higher impedence is better

Want to get the best earphones? Look for a higher impedance, measured in ohms. Here’s a comment from someone on Digg. I don’t know if it’s true, though, so read with a grain of salt and do your own research. Most of these headphones on this site have impedance ratings of under 60 ohms, this…Continue Reading…