Archive for posts tagged ‘music’
i’m not cool enough in the cool way
Kevin Day, February 8th, 2010I don’t know why, but I can’t stop thinking about the redesign on thesixtyone. You have to go there to check it out. Do it, I’ll wait. There’s music, so if you’re at work… turn the volume up.
(waiting…)
It’s just so fun it makes me smile.
It’s made me rethink web design completely. There’s so many cookie cutter websites that have a header w/logo, navigation links, content in one column, sidebar in another, blah blah blah.
There have to be more types of sites that can be gutted and redesigned in a way that’s both useful and fun.
This format also is great a great candidate for Chrome’s “save web page as app ” feature. I now have an application icon that opens up thesixtyone in a chrome browser without a url bar. Just like an application. And it launches about 10x faster than Rhythmbox loads, which is a locally installed music app.
Right now I’m listening to My First Earthquake, “Cool in the Cool Way“:
They even have a link to a free download of the song, which is cool.
I’ve bought a couple other songs from Amazon MP3 from artists who don’t yet have downloads from t61.
Check it out and think about that design next time you put together a website layout. I know I will.
Linux users will pay for downloads too
Kevin Day, November 15th, 2007Lately I’ve been listening to digital MP3 downloads from Amazon and watching streaming episodes of The Office from NBC.com (well, I did until I heard that the writers don’t earn anything from streamed episodes). Both Amazon and NBC have their own media players for certain downloads though, but of course there aren’t Linux versions. I wrote an email to Amazon asking if there was any chance of supporting Linux for full-album MP3 downloads, but we’ll see if that goes anywhere.
A dangerous combination…
Kevin Day, October 17th, 2007…having both Pandora and Amazon’s MP3 store open in the same browser window. Just bought a few Concretes songs and didn’t even have to enter any credit card info. Gotta restrain myself.
