How to Export All MP3s in an iTunes Music Playlist to a Folder

Posted on December 28, 2010 by squealingrat

Through some searching I discovered this method:

Select all the songs in iTunes, and drag them into a new folder in the Finder while holding down the Option key. This will duplicate all the files (without the Option key, it would move them).

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Projects, Posts and Pigs

Posted on December 28, 2010 by squealingrat

Recently released Psychology Pig will be feeding mind and body links each week.
Projects is a simple site we threw up to showcase some ideas we’d like to work with programmers on.
The next part of Lone Iguana’s series on James Bond tricks is up!
Also, just in time for the holidays, our support page is up, at the easy to navigate and tell friends squealingrat.org/support. Go there now and click one of the referral links to make your heart feel warm and fuzzy.

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MVPuppets Script Unstoppable

Posted on December 21, 2010 by squealingrat

“Since the dawn of time man has asked the question, what makes Kobe Bryant, aka The Black Mamba, so unstoppable? What makes his dunk so unstoppable? What makes his three-pointers so unstoppable? What makes his overall unstoppableness unstoppable? Is it possible to stop something that’s unstoppable? Is the answer to the question in another question? We may never know. In the never knowing, the unknowable, is unstoppable. This DVD was produced, directed, edited and presented by Kobe Bryant, aka The Black Mamba, for LeBron. Good bye. ”

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How to Get an Invite to Facebook’s Messages Beta

Posted on November 30, 2010 by squealingrat

I don’t know why this hasn’t been more publicized. In order to get in the line for invites to Facebook new Messages beta, simply follow the link and click Request an Invitation.

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Always Be Pledging WYNC Alec Baldwin Script

Posted on October 29, 2010 by squealingrat

Let’s talk about something important,
You call yourself a WNYC listener?
Well, how about you call yourself a pledger?

Put that coffee down.
Coffee is for pledgers only.
Oh, have I got your attention now?
Only one thing counts in this life,
and that is pledging public radio,
and if you can’t pledge public radio,
then goodbye,
hit the bricks pal,
and beat it!

Nice guy? Who cares?
Successful at your job? I don’t give a damn.
Good parent? Go home and play with your kids.
You want to support WNYC then pledge.

A. B. P.
A- always, B- be, P- pledging,
Always be pledging,
always be pledging!

We’ve got the new thank-you gifts,
tote bags, New Yorker subscriptions, baseball shirts, cook books…
You want them?
They’re for pledgers.
Always be pledging!

The money’s out there,
they’re waiting for you to pledge it.
You don’t?
I got no sympathy for you.

Always be pledging,
always be pledging!

All you have to do is call 1-888-376-9692
or pledge online at wnyc.org

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How Google Music Can Rock

Posted on October 24, 2010 by squealingrat

Google Music is just around the corner. And rather than wait to kvetch about what Google didn’t do, I though I’d take the time now to let them know what they should do. So here we go.

In order to be really successful, Google first has to compete with iTunes. This is not an easy task, but to get closer to that goal, they need to acquire Dazzboard, a web based device syncer. With this integrated with Google Music, one could purchase music and dump it onto their phone or music player with one click.

Now, one of the biggest problems with iTunes that Google can solve is with sharing. If you are in a household with several computers, several members or just a bunch of friends you want to share music with, iTunes doesn’t make it incredibly easy.

Google, what would happen if you let a music library be tied to multiple Google accounts? This could work the same way as Google Docs, being able to invite other Google users to share a library, even create sections for different people. Everyone could put all their music up online, and let others stream or download.

This might seem too utopian in the day of RIAA. True, true. Let’s factor in cost.

If Google, gave perhaps, 5 users per library, and let more join after that for a yearly fee, that could work. Of course, one might be paying $25 a year to just store and access all their music in the cloud.

Oh, and Google? Acquire rdio. Those guys can help you with your interface issues…

Squealing Rat is a writer, twitterer, and music listener. He also loves trickery…

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All of David Pogue’s Song Spoofs

Posted on October 9, 2010 by squealingrat

David Pogue, technology columnist for the New York Times, is famous for his fantastically done song spoofs. On his site, he does display a bunch of them, but not all. Here’s every David Pogue song I could think of. Please let us know in the comments what we’re missing.