On June 30th at around 10am, the switch was flipped on the iOS 8.4 upgrade that contained the new Apple Music app and about an hour later, Beats 1 went live on the new streaming service. Overall, it’s been a fairly smooth launch from what I gather, and I’ve had a chance to kick the […]
Continue reading →In the next few weeks Apple is set to announce a slew of updates to iOS and OS X. Most rumors indicate that we’ll see a lot of small improvements with every corner of the Apple ecosystem, but I’m looking most forward to the impending announcement of the new Apple / Beats product that should […]
Continue reading →Lately, I’ve grown tired of the HTML5/Flash based nature of Rdio, despite all of the other things that I love about the service. The desktop ‘app’ is basically a wrapper app for the website so that you can use the media keys, but is otherwise a webpage. Right clicking and selecting ‘reload’ is a dead […]
Continue reading →As you may or may not know, Spotify launched this week in the US, and I of course jumped on board. I’m going to give Rdio and Spotify a fair shake before I decide which to use full time (I reviewed Rdio a while back, and have been an avid user since the service launched), but the early lead […]
Continue reading →I want to write a bit more about Rdio – a streaming music service that has really altered the way that I listen to music. Rdio allows you to browse a list of music on their site and steam as much as you like via their web interface or their free desktop application (which happens to be made […]
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