http://www.bleep.com/
It's a music service by warprecords.com. Plain mp3 files, ripped with LAME and no DRM. Their music store was nominated for a webby in 2004. I've purchased an album from them and was very happy with the audio quality. They have quite a backlog of out of print music available for purchase. I don't remember if they come with covers or if I put a cover on them.
My first dealings with apple was when I decided to switch and get a powerbook alum. It was a great machine, even though the battery life was 1.5 hours. I started having the white spot problem and the screen died. I talked with apple and sent the computer back. Since they fixed it I haven't had any problems, but like someone else said it's just like any other computer maker. All products have problems, but it's all in how the company deals with it.
It seems like apple's arm must be twisted to react to problems with it's hardware. Look at the ipod battery issue. Given that it was a small problem, but a reported one, apple sat on it until it got out of hand. The powerbook white spot problem wasn't taken care of until too many people had the problem. I've read of similar issues with the ibooks screen and motherboards.
I really like using apple products (OS X, powerbooks, ipods) but it concerns me when a company is reluctant to fix their hardware, and since apple is the only maker of the hardware we have to either raise a huge stink, or wait till they feel it's a wide spread problem.
I feel I have to buy the applecare protection because the parts on powerbooks are so costly it's not worth the risk. If I was more confident in their workmanship I wouldn't get one. So far they haven't given me reason to think otherwise.
It's nice that apple is updating their WPA security for the airport, but it's still hard to get on Cisco secure access points.
The place i work at has a Cisco Aironet 1100 and they have it set up to use WPA. I've tried many times to figure out how to get on it but I haven't found anything that works. The system admin couldn't help me either.
I wish apple would step up and support enterprise level wireless hardware.
The flurry screen saver seems very blocky now. Like a bunch of rectangles on the screen. Also abstract no longer shows pictures.
The dock icons also turn into folders now instead of the program icons.
The OS does seem a little snappier.
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http://www.bleep.com/ It's a music service by warprecords.com. Plain mp3 files, ripped with LAME and no DRM. Their music store was nominated for a webby in 2004. I've purchased an album from them and was very happy with the audio quality. They have quite a backlog of out of print music available for purchase. I don't remember if they come with covers or if I put a cover on them.
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My first dealings with apple was when I decided to switch and get a powerbook alum. It was a great machine, even though the battery life was 1.5 hours. I started having the white spot problem and the screen died. I talked with apple and sent the computer back. Since they fixed it I haven't had any problems, but like someone else said it's just like any other computer maker. All products have problems, but it's all in how the company deals with it.
It seems like apple's arm must be twisted to react to problems with it's hardware. Look at the ipod battery issue. Given that it was a small problem, but a reported one, apple sat on it until it got out of hand. The powerbook white spot problem wasn't taken care of until too many people had the problem. I've read of similar issues with the ibooks screen and motherboards.
I really like using apple products (OS X, powerbooks, ipods) but it concerns me when a company is reluctant to fix their hardware, and since apple is the only maker of the hardware we have to either raise a huge stink, or wait till they feel it's a wide spread problem.
I feel I have to buy the applecare protection because the parts on powerbooks are so costly it's not worth the risk. If I was more confident in their workmanship I wouldn't get one. So far they haven't given me reason to think otherwise.
It's nice that apple is updating their WPA security for the airport, but it's still hard to get on Cisco secure access points. The place i work at has a Cisco Aironet 1100 and they have it set up to use WPA. I've tried many times to figure out how to get on it but I haven't found anything that works. The system admin couldn't help me either. I wish apple would step up and support enterprise level wireless hardware.
Just needed a complete restart. Back to normal.
The flurry screen saver seems very blocky now. Like a bunch of rectangles on the screen. Also abstract no longer shows pictures. The dock icons also turn into folders now instead of the program icons. The OS does seem a little snappier.