Last week Henry Blogdet and his team from BusinessInsider were at our office building for a video interview with Idealab CEO & Snap Chairman Bill Gross. Today it was published.
It is a fascinating interview where Bill shares his vision on renewable energy and how he has turned a dream he had when he was 16 years old to eSolar, one of the most promising green start up companies, that uses fields of mirrors to produce solar energy as affordable as fossil fuel-generated energy. Beyond that he speaks about Idealab, entrepreneurship and the importance of failure in the life of every entrepreneur.
There are many goodies in the new version of TweetDeck (0.33). The one that I like most is the Column Navigator, a usability improvement that makes navigation between columns a snap and will make you say goodbye to horizontal scrolling.
Another worth mentioning feature is the additional media types you can view inside the client, like Flickr images and YouTube videos.I came across Emanuel and The Fear today on the HypeMachine and was blown away.
They are an11-piece orchestra-rock band from Brooklyn that uses a wide variety of instruments, like electronica, percussion, orchestra instruments (flute, violins and cellos, trumpets) and hard hitting guitars, to create mind blowing Orchestral pop/rock/ songs.
One of the highlights in IMHO is “Jimme’s Song”. It is available in two versions that sound great, but still I like the Demo version (vid below) more than the the Full band version
Roy’s interpretation to Steve Jobs’s iPad announcement and what would his older brother, the iPhone, say/sing.
I have been getting many questions & comments about my two posts on how to listen to Israeli radio stations on the iPhone and iPod Touch using the FStream app (here). That’s the “price” I had to pay for being ranked first on google for queries like “israeli radio on iphone”. Hopefully this post will provide answers to many of the questions.
Recently a new free application was released to the App Store called “Visual Radio” (download link). It was developed in Israel by Unicell and it offers the capability to listen to over 10 stations using a clean and elegant user interface.
Unlike the FSTream solution which requires configuring the radio stations’ streams urls into the app and changing the urls whenever those change, Visual Radio comes pre-configured with many radio stations which leads to an easy “install and play” experience. A few stations are still missing and I hope the Unicell team there will add them soon. Other nice features include:
1. Radio Dial that lets you preview what song is being played in a station before actually switching to it – big time saver
2. Displaying artist and song names
3. Song’s lyrics (when available)
4. Programming for every station
Kudos for the Unicell team for a great app. One small tip to the developers – change the app name to say something like “Visual Israeli Radio” so people who search iTunes will be able to easily find it.
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The first, Bring of the Dancing Horses by Echo and the Bunnymen, was also the opening tune of her show.
and Just Like Honey by The Jesus and the Mary Chain.
Further reading (in Hebrew) and many songs representing her musical taste by David Perez & Sharon Moldavi
and a playlist on YouTube
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Earlier today Net tweeted that he bought a new MacBook and looking for recommended applications. My first reaction was to reply using twitter. However, 140 chars are not enough to list all the apps I have on my MacBook Pro and that I recommend.
So, here is the list, created in the easiest way I know, a screenshot: My Mac Apps
BTW, I did that using my favorite, the must have app, Jing.
