Comments for Jarrett House North

Comment on Whither iTunes Plus upgrades (again) by Don Montalvo

Don Montalvo — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:59:58 +0000

Pay $24.94 for 1 year of iTunes Match.

Let your library sync up with their service.

Delete tracks you want to replace.

Find them in iTunes store and download.

BAM! Much better than paying .99 per track, ey?

Don

Comment on Cousin Frantz by Nathan Moore

Nathan Moore — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:14:47 +0000

Hi Tim,
have you contacted Michael Butterman about the 80s?
info@michaelbutterman.com
He would probably know 86-87 and he would most likely be able to contact older fossils to round out that list. Seals and Butler were also (I think) of that era and were VGs too.

Keep up the good work.
Nathan

Comment on The South’s Oldest Rivalry by Carolina is Playing for Pride « One Game at a Time

Carolina is Playing for Pride « One Game at a Time — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:50:41 +0000

[...] the Jarrett House North blog, this song was written in the late 1800′s by a UVa student and it’s called “Oh, [...]

Comment on Using an AirPort Express with FiOS by Warren

Warren — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:03:28 +0000

I recently changed from an Apple extreme with an Apple express relay to a Verizon WiFi router. When I set up the relay all seemed to go well: it accepted the WPA2 security code and the light is steady green. The problem is that the express does not seem to be relaying a signal. There is no extension or increase in strength of coverage.

Comment on Whither iTunes Plus upgrades (again) by bigbro

bigbro — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:47:59 +0000

I fell upon your blog entry while searching for information about this very issue. And it is indeed very annoying : I still have 800 songs I haven’t upgraded and am stuck with them. I can’t even use iTunes Match since I still run Snow Leopard and have no intention to upgrade – still using too many PPC apps – and I got a feeling many songs wouldn’t be recognized anyway since I customized many ID3 tags.
However, in your case, if you can run iTunes Match, here is what I would do : I would create a secondary iTunes library containing only duplicates of your 671 tracks and then run iTunes match on this smaller library. You would still need to replace songs in your main library as well as putting them back in their playlists and restore their ratings if you use those. It could be very tedious but it could still work.
Cheers,
bigbro

Comment on iTunes Plus de-emphasized in iTunes Store? by Whither iTunes Plus upgrades (again) (Jarrett House North)

Whither iTunes Plus upgrades (again) (Jarrett House North) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:56:30 +0000

[...] A while ago I wrote about how Apple’s offer to upgrade previously purchased music to iTunes Plus, their “drm-lite” offering that raised recording quality and eliminated copy restrictions, had gone missing. [...]

Comment on Remembering Angelo F. Lucadamo by Tom

Tom — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:13:24 +0000

It’s difficult to believe 2 years plus have passed. Indeed he knew how live to fullest with a deep appreciation for the richness of lifes moments. In his travels, he always made time (even went out of his way) to meet with friends relatives. A charmer indeed–with a knack to quickly recognize the agrarian in people and equally quick to bring out quick the pleasantness in those he met. His manner, his words and even his humor contained lessons worth imitating.

Comment on Outlook 2007 annoyances: keyboard shortcuts by Dan

Dan — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:15:11 +0000

I can’t stand MS Office 2007 and after. Apparently, there is a shortcut, however, it seems to get longer upon subsequent releases.

Alt+H+V+S will get you to paste special.

Those dummies at MS love to do it the hard way. I’m moving to LibreOffice after having moved to OpenOffice after Office 2007 got it wrong.

Comment on Default to the right thing. by Tim Jarrett

Tim Jarrett — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:20:13 +0000

Hi Erik!

I agree that use cases help–God knows the one you called out probably would have helped in the GTI. And they’re probably required to help a product scale. But I don’t think you can make this totally objective. You still need people who are looking at the whole system.

And yes, I see the irony in this conversation. Rewriting the agenda as I speak…

Comment on Default to the right thing. by Erik

Erik — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:10:40 +0000

I think its more than defaulting to the right thing, its about thinking of the right details in the first place. The devils are always in the details and when you look at the success or failure of a product it’s always because of the little things. The only time the little things don’t matter is when the product has a monopoly or is uncontested, but poll the users of that product and they will likely tell you they hate it but don’t have any choice.

Now the reason I believe a lot of complicated products, like a car (or enterprise software are cursed to get the details wrong is because they don’t focus on the whole system. They divide and conquer to design the whole thing but they fail to develop use cases that cut across team lines, instead they develop interfaces across those lines and then fail to test the system, vs just making sure the interfaces work.

But how do you make sure you are dealing with the detail devil? Often companies might put this responsibility on the shoulders of their most OCD individual and then hope for the best. But a more objective way to ensure you are handling the details might be to track the number of system use cases that cut across team and component lines and make sure you test the right ratio of feature vs system use cases with every release.

Who knows what would have happened if VW had use cases like ‘driver wants to listen to music on their iPhone via Bluetooth every morning on way to work’ instead of ‘radio must support Bluetooth for wireless audio’.