It looks like one of RondoMondo's sites, muse.ie, is going to be relaunched later this year under new management. I have vague recollections of the original site which went belly up after the dot bomb.... From the holding page: Can't remember what MUSE is all about? Fresh and colourful since 1997, MUSE is Ireland's most comprehensive online music magazine. It features talented … [Read more...] about Remember Muse.ie ?
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iWorld Rock!
I've bought two gadgets from iWorld in the last couple of months and I have to say I am really impressed. Their site and service simply works. There are no silly delays. You get nice informative tracking emails and best of all your order arrives nice and quickly (courtesy of DHL) I just got my latest toy - I can't wait to play with it this afternoon / evening :) … [Read more...] about iWorld Rock!
CD Wow 24 hour sale
CD WOW are running a 24 hour sale on selected items across their range of products. I just picked up a Chemical Brothers double CD for just over 10 euro including shipping :) … [Read more...] about CD Wow 24 hour sale
iPod Nano Wins
Prior to the Blog Awards I took delivery of an iPod Nano to give to the winner. At the time I was sorely tempted to get a nano for myself, but I resisted.. at least for a while Anyhow my personal iPod Nano arrived on Friday afternoon. It was shipped from Hong Kong, as I had it etched with the Blacknight Logo. It looks kind of like this: Unfortunately I couldn't get the text … [Read more...] about iPod Nano Wins
mp3 support for rhythmbox on dapper
I originally mentioned setting up mp3 support for Rhythmbox on breezy. I've since upgraded to dapper and have had to go through the process again. This time round the solution was to install the oddly named package gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly Depending on which repositories you have enabled you may find more than one version of it and as dapper is still in active development you … [Read more...] about mp3 support for rhythmbox on dapper