I was wrong about ITUNES!!! it was awesome!

I was wrong about ITUNES!!! its awesome! really bad!!

Ok so now we're past the honeymoon stage and what do I think about using itunes with my iphone - put it this  way my next phone will probably be an android. I'm so put off my itunes that I've stopped syncing music from my iphone; its just inhibitive/slow and is almost the complete opposite user experience of the iphone itself.
I can't stand Itunes, anymore - I thought it was good but its not.

I am an avid follower of noah of phonedog.com on youtube, and Jon (asian dude) is so funny his reviews are great. Well im very interested in the Android Evo 4G. I want to use my phone as a usb storage device if I can, I want to be able to drag and drop using windows explorer, and I am a bit of geek. http://www.phonedog.com/2010/06/02/noah-s-evo-4g-review/
But how will the internet experience shape up? Will it be as good as my iphone? We'll see.

ok, so I know I was going on about how unfriendly itunes (the actual windows app used for syncing with my iphone) is. Well I figured out how to use it as drag and drop and dare I say its actually better than WMP11. I mean I can't complain anymore because its doing exactly what I want it to do. Before I put it down to my own ignorance of not knowing how to use this software. So now I've been ripping/converting my DVD's to mp4 using the wonderful app called Handbrake. Yes originally designed for BeoS (An awesome operating system), but now available for all other systems. Its great, I can't believe how simple it is to use.

Gigs and Gigs and Gig of RAM!
So I was thinking, since we've got 64-bit CPU's and the ability to use stacks of RAM I'm talking way beyond 4GB limits (some systems I've seen on forums have got 32GB! RAM!!!). Could we create a RAM drive place the application Handbrake and together with a folder of the VOB files (from the DVD) and then start to encode it to Mp4 for the iphone? Would this have significant speed implications? I was just thinking that Hard drives are damn slow, and annoying. I've recently replaced my 3.5inch SATA drive with a 2.5inch (laptop) drive and its much more quiet and feels a little bit quicker (but this could just be my wishful thinking imagination).

So if anyone does the above, please let me know.

Music for fun?
I mean there was a time when I got my first keyboard a casio my dad bought me ( back in the 80s?) it was awesome, I've still the little thing...its funny; as I was saying there was a time when music was just for fun, but somewhere along the lines I completely forgot about how much fun you could have with music. Now speaking about fun this guy Ronald Jenkees (from youtube), is an absolute legend of a musician. I was in total awe of his musicianship and was so happy he was using fruityloops (FL Studio as its now known) to create his beats, and I can see why. If your like me and make music on your PC or whatever it can be a little too much if you've been used to playing a physically involving instrument like a guitar or keyboard. Software like Cubase or Reason, I've just never understood properly - I mean there are courses which teach you how to use them - but its nothing like picking up a guitar (electric - preferably with some distortion and plugged into an amp with volume set on 11 - Spinal Tap ^^) and strumming to make some noise. There is no configuration necessary to start playing, whereas with so many music arranging applications - they are so "un" fun that I feel they overcomplicate things and take the fun out of making music. Now FL Studio on the other hand is so easy! I've only used Fruity Loops version 3 which is even more funny, as it has no street cred (well certainly among any budding young produca!), so stuff the street cred as its bloody brilliant fun to play with. The thing I dislike about these applications, and the producers that use them is that their almost revered as though they were unattainable pieces of jewels, and theres a certain pride involved in saying "yeah I use protools".

Well, enough of me ranting on, I hope we see more people like Ronald Jenkees reminding us how much fun you can have with a simple set-up. Keyboard, FL Studio, Good Monitors. You're done! No more investing £5000 on a sterile, studio setup.

im back

After disappearing for a while, well almost 5 years!!! I'm back. I hope to keep this blog uptodate from now onwards....keep in touch. Peace! wonder what everyone else has been up2?
Yes well actually come to think of I think I know, so far its been about facebook/twitter/....and come to think of I actually started off with hi5, then myspace, then facebook and now its facebook against twitter. I got to say that more people are appreciating the ease of twitter, could be speed as the factor here...we're all speed hungry? I'm liking twitter too, there are alot more interesting people on twitter, or maybe thats its easier to express interesting ideas on twitter than it is on facebook?

Social Networks - "haram, haram, haram! - well actually depends on who's perspective you're looking at here"

Facebook seems the application of choice for nosey parkers, whereas and this is what I like about twitter is that its more to the point, and has a limit on how much you can say. I like these limits, in an age where there are no limits technology wise, its kind of harmed creativity to an extent, however there are some amazing things being done especially in film, that whole revolution with the canon HV20 allowed a whole bunch of film-makers, to express themselves in HD. But I think for example games/applications in general like back in the 80s where we had limited memory RAM/ROM developers/programmers had to be more resourceful/genius with the tools they had to create the games/apps that they could, and they created some seriously addictive games. I never appreciated it before, but I can now. Not that I'm saying with all this amazing technology now its bad, of course its not! I love it, I love my iphone its nang man, and I'm a big sucker for CGI in film, anything from starship troopers to Lawnmower man, and of course The Matrix, but you know I just love the story of the matrix which easily overpowers the cosmetic/visual appeal. The visuals just enhance the philosophy/story. I wish I could learn like that, just be plugged in and download data into my brain (I've tried that mind-mapping stuff, but it don't feel natural to me).

Iphone - "yes I caved in and finally bought one of the most amazing gadgets ever invented"

Now the whole itunes thing with syncing, I can never understand, maybe I'm old school - but I like to plug in a usb device see it in explorer and then drag and drop my stuff into it - I mean syncing is what middle managers used to do with their PSIONS back in the 90s upto 2000. Its kinda dumb or a slow procedure that with a mobile device this sophisticated you have to sync it to transfer files to it, really this iphone is more powerful then what its creaters let on - and again with limits maybe its a good thing, "I dunno yet". People find ways around like with Jailbreaking, I haven't jailbreaked my iphone yet, maybe I will one day.
However it is the best touch screen/mobile device at the moment, nothing, and I mean "nothing - like Cipher from The Matrix" comes close to it. But why? Why can't Microsoft adapt the ZuneHD to work like the iphone, just give it a touchscreen, 3G unlocked to any network carrier, spend some money on marketing, hire the best PR/AD agencies and maybe you'll have something, its not over yet Msdosh. Seriously windows mobile is such a funny OS to use. I would partner with Nvidia to provide the graphics, they've the done best unrealeased gadget so far, something that is small enough/portable enough yet can play over 9 hours of HD content - woah!

I'm not even into Apps "so why did you get it? - you're lame" - I like to check my email on it, and I use it for internet -when im out - I've put a few of my films on it from my DVD's and youtube videos those encoded in mp4 are easily transferable on it. The film quality, has easily convinced a few of my mates to get one - "Apple can you hear me - I should be on commission here!" because its sick/slick/and always gets a woah, really response. The best one was from my mum, when I showed her some of the old indian films (Bombay to Goa, starring Mehbob in lead, Amitabh in supporting roles). Now this film released in 1972, and we're watching it on my iphone in 2009/2010. I've never seen this film prior to having an iphone, and probably wouldn't have been too fussed it if weren't for the novelty factor of showing it off to my mum, but after watching the film - I can say its an absolute classic, and damn good story, with excellent characters.

The major gripe I have is the syncing. Copy/drag/drop are based on philosophies pHD dessertations were probably written on the subject, and philosophies rarely change, they are the foundations that we build upon - although technology always will be the change. Change Revolution.

For now enjoy this film, all the parts are uploaded courtesy of Rajishri, who I have to give credits for uploading nearly all of their films onto youtube, brilliant! thank you guys!