No.66 Mad ON:Trance

Tracklist:

1. Lost Witness – Song to the Siren
2. Santos – Camels
3. Mathias Ware ft Rob Taylor – Hey Little Girl
4. Trisco – Musak
5. Paul Van Dyk – Tell Me Why
6. Aquanuts – Deep Sea
7. Matt Darey & Marcella Woods – U Shine On
8. Cooper – I Belive In Love
9. Aalto – Rush
10. Agnelli & Nelson – Holding On To Nothing
11. Paul Van Dyk – We Are Alive
12. Hi-Gate – Hurricane

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Virgin all in one

I have just had a thought so I thought I would share my little thought. My thought is why does Virgin media just supply one box? By this I mean by my TV I have a cable box and a cable modem, now it got me thinking why can’t they offer an all in one solution because it would make thinks simpler and certainly tidier round the back of my TV.

Now before you dismiss this out right here me out, We need a cable box to watch digital tv and we need a cable box to get broadband. But with the Xbox, playstation 3 and new Internet tv and if your like me have a mac mini connected to the tv then you need the cable modem near the TV, this is because I would prefer wired connection still just to get max speeds all the time.

With the cable modem being by the TV and the cable box there as well it would be so much nicer to have an all in one box. Surely this is possible? I mean it would mean one less box, which means more space and less cables which surely is a good think. I hope Virgin media come out with a one box solution soon as to me it makes sense.

DVDs are out of date

I got in to a discussion a few weeks back and only now have had time to blog about it, but the discussion was that DVDs are now out dated and streaming is the way forward. I personally have not brought a DVD in years and currently stream via LoveFilm. This is possible because I have a mac mini connect to my HD TV. But a friend of mine was like he likes DVD because he likes to see them on the self. My argument with this is that DVDs take up to much space, I used to have hundreds of DVDs before I started selling them off, and the huge amount of space they took up was ridiculous.

After getting rid of most of my DVDs and ripping them to my media hard drive I have so much space, plus if you use software like Plex, when you browser through you DVD collection you get to see the DVD cover anyway and plot summary.

I will admit that it does take a bit of time to set up and ripp all your DVDs, but when you have done it, you will not regret it at all. Its time to move up to the modern way of watching films. Streaming and media centers baby!!!

No.65 Mad ON:House

No.65 Mad ON:House OUT NOW FOR DOWNLOAD!!!!

Tracklist:

1. Redroche Vs Armstrong – Make Your Move
2. Roger Sanchezs – 2Gether (Dabruck Klein Remix)
3. Sharam – Fun
4. Shaun Baker – Frontline
5. Skepta – Amnesia
6. Stars on 45 – 45
7. Stephanie Benson – Hangin On
8. Stereo Palma – Lick iT
9. Steve Aoki & Sidney Samson – Wake Up Call
10. Swanky Tunes and Hard Rock Sofa – Labyrinth
11. The Nycer – Lose Control
12. The Banger Bros – Beep Beep Boom

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.Net Awards are pointless

Yesterday I was having a look through my RSS Feeds and swore the results for the .Net awards where they so decided to have a look. As I was looking a discussion broke out in the office that the .Net awards are pointless because the same people which are in the so called web design cliq win it.

This got me thinking about last years awards when there was a lot of talk about the same people winning the awards, which caused Jeffrey Zeldman to write a post on why he should except the awards. But I still felt that if I won a .Net award and would feel a little proud of myself, I doubt though that my wife would feel the same as she would not really understand who big a .net award is to the web design community.

But as I was looking down the winners of this years awards, I starting thinking Really? and What have they done recently?. To quote Family Guy a few things that really grind my gears.

1. To start off with, Why do they have to show Remy Sharps Git hub page when annoying that GitHub is web app of the year? Same old people in the cliq again.

2. Podcast of the Year is The Big Web Show, Now i have listen to this and I have to say that I stopped listening to it because it got a bit boring. Boagworld is still much more interesting to listen to and CSS-Tricks podcast is so good at actually showing you with video, but there is no mention of the sitepoint podcast either. Did the Big Web Show win because Jeffrey Zeldman is on it? Well I am not saying but again look at the names and the cliq seems to have struck again.

3. Mobile App of the Year is Reader. Really??? I mean yes its a good app but no where near the best. BBC News is far better but surely Instagram was more popular as well, but what about Flipboard?

4. Mobile Site of the Year: Facebook. Really because I do not think so. The mobile version of the site was crap and did not work properly. Im sure there are better sites out there, BBC Radio 1’s new mobile design is not bad and is better then Facebook, Plus the screen shot they showed is of Andy Budd and Elliot Jay Stocks, I do not class Elliot Jay Stocks in the cliq but I do class Andy Budd in the cliq and plus he is on the panel for .Net Mag.

5. Redesign of the Year: Mailchimp? I mean come on, just because the cliq recommend mail chimp they win. I know for affact there are loads of great re designs done everyday, so why does it have to be a company the cliq uses?

6. Then on to the final one, Agency of the year. We actually had a vote of who would win this before looking at the result, two of the three of us was right. Clearleft won it. What have they done recently bar put on a massively expensive conferences which I can not afford to go to and Andy Budd is found of and it also advisor to .Net. Even the runners up Happy Cog, What have they done recently? just because Jeffrey Zeldman works there? its a joke. There are plenty of hard working small agencies out there output websites each week to high standards.
These are the points which really annoyed me and as got me thinking that the .Net awards are now pointless and unless your in the so called web design cliq your not going to win it.

Anyway that’s my rant over with.