Shazam!

Alright ... I'm not talking to the Billy Batson loving crowd here. I'm talking about one of the coolest iPhone 2.0 apps available right now. Shazam is a free utility that allows you to tag music. By tagging, I actually mean it is a music discovery tool ... and when I say music discovery tool, I mean that it can tell you the name/artist/cover art of music that it can hear. So far, I have had 100% success rate with this application in a variety of settings (car, restaurants, headphones)! Let me splain what I'm talkin' 'bout.

First, download the app via iTunes or the App Store on the iPhone. Once it installs, tap the icon for Shazam.



The app will launch and take you to the My Tags screen. This screen will show any music that you have tagged. Your screen will not have any tags if it is the first time you have entered the app and have yet to tag some music. If you want to begin identifying music, click the Tag Now button on the top right of the screen.



Once you have clicked the Tag Now button ... the magic begins. Shazam goes into Listening mode. It will listen for around 10 seconds or so and take a sample of any music it hears.



Once it has collected its music sample, it sends the sample to its servers for identification. It's a rather quick process I might add. It seems like it usually takes about 5 seconds or so. The phone will also buzz once right before it sends the sample.



Once Shazam identifies the music, it will show you the song info ... complete with artist, song title and cover art. You will also get some other options to buy the song from iTunes or watch the video on YouTube. You can also send the tag via email to a contact or add your own photo to the tag.



All in all, this application kicks ass. How many times do you hear a song and want to know what it is. Now you have a way! Start tagging yo!

iPhone 3G Countdown

Thank you NetworkWorld for the countdown widget!

This is why I'm HOT!

I tell you what ... St. Johns County Sheriffs has some fly ass cars. Now THIS is what all good sheriff departments need ... SPINNER RIMS!!! Check this out ... it's dope yo!

The Anti-Valentines Holiday

Funny email I received ...

Every 14th of February you get the chance to display your fondness for your wife or girlfriend by showering her with gifts, flowers, dinner, shows and any other baubles that women find romantic.

Secretly ... guys feel left out. That's right ... left out. There's no special
holiday for the ladies to show their appreciation for the men in their life.
Men as a whole are either too proud or just too embarrassed to admit it. This is why a new holiday has been created.

March 20th is now officially 'Steak, Hooter & Shut the Fuck Up Day.'
Simple, effective and self-explanatory ... this holiday has been created so you ladies can have a day to show your man just how much you love him.

No cards, no flowers, no special nights on the town the name of the holiday explains it all ... just a Steak, a BJ & Shut your mouth for the rest of the day! That's it!

This twin pairing of Valentine's Day and Steak, Hooter & Shut the
Fuck Up Day will usher in a new age of love as men everywhere will try THAT much harder in February to ensure a more memorable March! It's like a perpetual love machine.

The word is already spreading, but as with any new idea, it needs a little push to start the ball rolling. So spread the word, and help bring love and peace to this crazy world.

Joost Update!

UPDATE: Matthew over at LifeWithoutToast.com just hooked me up in a big way!! Thanks Matthew!! I'd make love to you if you were a woman ...

So check it out ... if you want an invite, just let me know. Post a request wif yo email address or pop one off to me at (honcho at the gmail). Word suckas! I will get to it as quickly as possible.

Looks like the beta opened to allow all beta users to invite an unlimited amount of friends ... or so it seems. I'm all about spreading the wealth. Gimme a shout if you are interested.

"Simple" online game

Here is a cool little game I ran across today. I say it is simple ... but my dumb ass hasn't figured it out yet. See how well you can do. This is one of those games where you have to do things in a particular order to win. It is a fun little time waster if you are bored.

http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/hapland2/

Tesla Motors

Electric cars ... small ... ugly ... no power ... basically shitty. But watch out!!! Here comes the ride that gonna turn electric cars into something awesome! The Tesla Roadster from Tesla Motors looks like it could make electric cars bad ass. I've been watching this car since it was first announced. Looks like it is actually going to happen. Too bad they will be so friggin expensive.

Tesla Motors

Yes

Ever drive around listening to the radio and you hear a song that you like but don't know the name of it? Maybe you know the name but don't know the artist. How will you ever be able to find it on iTunes? Never fear! Just use Yes. Load the site on your home PC (mobile browsers work pretty decent too) and in the search box at the top of the page, type in the station call letters and or the numeric dial location and then hit the YES button. So let's say you are in the car and you just heard a kick ass song. Make note of the time and then when you have access to the internets, hit up Yes and search for the call letters of the station. It will list all the songs played going back 7 days ordered by the time of day it was played.

Holy craps!! It' da bomb! Any other services like this that may be better ... Let me know.

http://www.yes.com/

Serious waste of time!!!

So you are saying to yourself ... "I have too much time on my hands and I need to piss away some time doing something totally brainless and stupid". I have the answer for you. The answer is called LineRider. Whoever built this thing has started something huge. I can't call this a game since there is no winning or losing going on. This is just a pure waste of time. You basically just draw a line on the screen and a bobsled follows the line. You can do tricks and crap if you want. Some people are seriously into this and trade SOL files (a container file of all the crap you draw) or do ping pong. That's where one person draws something and then passes it to the next person that then draws some more crap. There is a whole site dedicated to just drawing for this crafty little time waster. It really helps if you have a wacom tablet since drawing those friggin loops is tarded with a mouse.

Check out the official spot of LineRider and waste an hour or so.
http://www.official-linerider.com/play.html

Lot's of videos of the stuff that they built for LineRider on YouTube. Here is an example:

The coolest thing I've seen today ...

I don't know why this impresses me so much ... it just does! Look at these two websites and check out the videos.

http://www.iam-online.nl/

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/

Not sure EdZachary how to classify this, but very creative and very cool!!