Mostly Harmless » Media http://blog.rowancrane.com Rowan Crane's Blog Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Amazon MP3 store – buying MP3s legitimately online in Linux still a pain in the arse then http://blog.rowancrane.com/2008/12/27/amazon-mp3-store-buying-mp3s-legitimately-online-in-linux-still-a-pain-in-the-arse-then http://blog.rowancrane.com/2008/12/27/amazon-mp3-store-buying-mp3s-legitimately-online-in-linux-still-a-pain-in-the-arse-then#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:23:34 +0000 Rowan http://blog.rowancrane.com/?p=113 Like many this Christmas, I found Amazon’s offer of £3 of free MP3s tempting. I’ve avoided buying music online all these years on principle because the DRM experience mixed with using multiple computers and OS types has just been miserable. The CD has generally been cheaper, with the very minor inconvenience of ripping it when [...]]]> http://blog.rowancrane.com/2008/12/27/amazon-mp3-store-buying-mp3s-legitimately-online-in-linux-still-a-pain-in-the-arse-then/feed 0 Image search better than “google image search”? http://blog.rowancrane.com/2008/10/31/image-search-better-than-google-image-search http://blog.rowancrane.com/2008/10/31/image-search-better-than-google-image-search#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:00:26 +0000 Rowan http://blog.rowancrane.com/?p=82 http://www.picsearch.com would appear to be, a few test queries show far less irrelevant results…

]]> http://blog.rowancrane.com/2008/10/31/image-search-better-than-google-image-search/feed 0 The mouse is mightier than the aerial? (more fun with DRM) http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/06/28/the-mouse-is-mightier-than-the-aerial-more-fun-with-drm http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/06/28/the-mouse-is-mightier-than-the-aerial-more-fun-with-drm#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:48:58 +0000 Rowan http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/06/28/the-mouse-is-mightier-than-the-aerial-more-fun-with-drm/ I can’t help but laugh at the fact that the BBC had to implement Microsoft DRM technology into their iPlayer application. The reasoning behind this…

“The rights holders – the people that make the programmes, from Ricky Gervais to the independent producers that account for up to a third of our programming – simply [...]]]> http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/06/28/the-mouse-is-mightier-than-the-aerial-more-fun-with-drm/feed 0