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Python: simple elegance

A little hobby-job took me down the Python route this weekend, and I have to say I’m impressed. So far, at least. It has a simple elegance, and seems to approach coding from the same angle I do. Feels very natural to me. Pascal is my native tongue, and I’ve coded there for so long [...]

Lyric Download for iTunes

This is a great little utility to populate the iTunes lyric content of your library. SVanKruistum.com has released the iTunes Lyric Downloader, and it is ridiculously easy to use. FORGET cutting & pasting thousands of times over, this will do it all for you, in seconds. One of those truly useful bits of software that [...]

Amazon Music Downloads Tested

As previously reported in this post, Amazon is going head-to-head with iTunes. I recently came across a bit of music that appealed to me, and out of habit located it on iTunes and was about to buy it, but then remembered Amazon’s offering. So I headed over there. Ten pence cheaper. And it’s a high-quality [...]

Any OpenID experts out there?

It’s all working relatively well, except the delegation. I should be able to use “blog.pembi.net” as my OpenID URL (check the source of any page on the blog and you’ll see the delegation code), but I just cannot make it work. Help!

Amazon takes on iTunes

Yes  it’s happened at last: iTunes has some real competition from the big boys. Agressively priced and able to play on just about anything… is Apple scared yet?