Spotify vs Grooveshark mobile apps review.

While Grooveshark is cool because it works as a Rich Internet Application, having widgets and funky gimmicks... Spotify is kicking butt on native applications, its got tons of features, including automatic sync between PC and Phone if your phone and computer hook up to the same wifi.

I'm not a journalist and I don't put ads on my blog, so I can be lazy enough and not give you an extremely long read... Instead give you my opinion straight away:

If I were to consider the 90 USD per year for Grooveshark, vs the 120 USD per year for Spotify, I'd go with Spotify.

The android app runs great on my Samsung Galaxy S I9000B (which has been running CyanogenMod 7 for the past 4 months straight).

I think some screenshots of the mobile apps will help you see my position:

Grooveshark Dashboard

Grooveshark Playlist list

Grooveshark Settings

My media tab on phone

Spotify Dashboard

Spotify Search screen

Spotify Search Results for Albums

Spotify Search Results for Tracks

Spotify Settings

Spotify Track ACTIONS!!! (long press)

Spotify "welcome" screen :P

Exerpt from McKenna: The Evolutionary Mind

The Evolutionary Mind - by Terence McKenna. p63.
"I think people sould drive out and take a look at the Eschaton at the end of the road of history. What that means is psychedelic self-exploration. I don't know of any other way to do it. If you drive out to the end of the road and you take a look at the Eschaton and kick the tires and so forth, then you will be able to come back here and take your place in this society and be a source of moral support and exemplary behavior for other people. I think that as we approach the Eschaton you will find that history is, as I said, a white-knuckle ride. There is an outlandish amount of vibration. it's going to look good, then bad, then worse, then good, then bad. If you haven't driven out to the end of the road and taken a look at what's waiting the next few years are going drive you nuts, because the resonance of all past time is now in the close packing phase as the thing is squeezed down. The contradictions are rubbing up aginst each other. Boudaries are disolving all around us. The Soviet Union, gone! Yugoslavia, gone! America as a great power, gone! Good taste, gone! This is going to happen faster and faster and faster. Governments are all managing a spreading wildfire of uncontrolled catastrophes, and trying to keep us in the dark about how bad things really are. It's good to go out and take a look and reasure yourself that the transcendental object is still there."

Competitors and Envious Jerks - DON'T BE EVIL!!

So, I've seen this happen several times. I've also been victim of this kind of behavior when we're in a competitive environment. It pains me that us humans aren't better than this.

This is an old client I did some work for.. He does Penny Stock Predictions or follow him on twitter @bullseyestox

[3:23:27 PM BRST] Conrado Buhrer: did you get your news things popping up on Google Finance?
[3:23:40 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: yea
[3:23:41 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: i did
[3:23:42 PM BRST] Conrado Buhrer: cool
[3:23:50 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: but subsequently got removed
[3:23:57 PM BRST] Conrado Buhrer: oh, shit... why?
[3:24:20 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: some idiot send like 200 emails to google
[3:24:32 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: calling me and the guys that were on there spammers
[3:24:33 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: smh
[3:24:47 PM BRST] Conrado Buhrer: yeah, its a rough world out there
[3:24:51 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: I know
[3:24:56 PM BRST] Conrado Buhrer: competitors hate you :(
[3:25:02 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: and the funny thing is that i know the guy
[3:25:03 PM BRST] Conrado Buhrer: I hate competitors too xD
[3:25:08 PM BRST] Conrado Buhrer: oh SHIT!
[3:25:16 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: and he used to act like he was a friend
[3:25:29 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: he later confessed
[3:25:40 PM BRST] Client - Bullseyestox: and it was because he tried to get on google and couldnt
[3:25:52 PM BRST] Conrado Buhrer: what a fuckin ass

Google Voice launches in Brazil

Google launched its Voice servince in Brazil today, and seems to be rolling it out in the rest of the world.

Google Voice is a Skype-like Voice over IP telephony service that charges around 2 USD cents per minute for landline calls in most countries.

With Microsoft aquiring skype, it makes me wonder if Google has not decided to launch slightly quicker, in order to stay ahead of the competition.

If you've used Skype, you'll know that the call quality can sometimes be poor... Its no different for Google voice.. Often this is subject to your own connection and other factors.

Yet, the service is quite extensive.. Has a ton of advanced telephony features which truly out-play any other VOIP providers out there. However, the full Google Voice isn't yet available, and Google is rolling the service out little by little, starting the the earliest Gmail adopters, so you might not have it available to yet...

To have a good overview of what Google Voice is about, visit their About page: http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html

HALP! I'm lost!

Dead IT companies...

I skipped a night out to work on a hacked server... Its tough fixing the mess other people make sometimes. This is a tiny peak at what an honest geek does to earn a living. There's no glory or banter.

My mother thinks I should start my own business ASAP!

Everybody wants to partner with me.

I don't feel like I know enough to do anything yet! But perhaps that's just the problem...

So to condense everything together.. even as there is sometimes too much to do, I ain't gonna do it if at least I don't get some payment or recognition!

I was asked to partner up with a guy on an ecommerce gig. This is harmless enough to say.. since everybody wants to do something with ecommerce. Now I go and say, I'm getting into ecommerce and a guy says he's into something BIGGER! I wonder what that could be?

Regardless, with everything going crazy and me figuring out I gotta fix something, there's this hacked server I gotta take a look at...

So, okay... just a simple google search actually fixed my problem pretty fast coz this was so OLD!! Google could easily index it.

Now, what about the 0day?! 0day are becoming corporate secrets!

Call me an optimist, but there will be something called super-security. and I think its gonna be a transparent, regardless for the need of encryption, we will know where the money goes!

Now, I'm mainly writing this because I can't go any further... It'd probably be illegal for me to download other's people sites, even though I might be doing them a favor.

I'd like to save their shit in case something happens to this machine, its been hacked since 2009.

What do I do?!

- I've set up e-mail bomb alert for guy that owns the machine.

- I've set it up for myself as well

- I've downloaded my partner's own stuff

- I've put out a BIG MOTD about the hack since LOTSA people have r00t on this machine.

and now, the funnies:

Old MOTD:

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Warning, changing system files will
void your warranty. Ensim.
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New MOTD:

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¡THERE IS NO WARRANTY!
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This server is comprised. PROOF:
http://*************.com/test.php

It was an old vulnerability described here:
http://smaert.com/apache_mischief/writeup.txt

Its probably been hacked since 2009.

¡¡¡BACKUP YOUR SITES UP

¡¡¡THIS SERVER WILL LIKELY BE FORMATTED!!!

Frank should update the software.
btw. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6571301-
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¡YOU WILL LOSE YOUR DATA!
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mail if you'd like to move host fast

The nice thing is that hackers tend not to break your
data.. Even blackhats have hearts <3

AND

I don't think that trying to steal customers from a guy that doesn't take care of his business is so wrong, after all... he could be hurting them.

ALSO

This is a test to see if my content gets censored on Blogger too! Wherein I link to the Fuck FBI Friday III: ManTech dataleak by ANTiSEC.

YES THOSE CONTENT SCANNING SPIDERS DO WORK! I WORKED ON THEM TOO!!!

Question is who can we really trust? I trust that there is good in the world and people that take on shitty jobs just because its the right thing. In reality nobody is in control of anything and Anarchy is a natural state. And as I'm told its a source of love.

Surfing in Florianopolis

It has been a long time since my last post, when I mentioned I should get a surfboard.

Damn the eternal war between time and money!

A dear friend of mine took pity on me and lent me her late brother's 20 year old surfboard. Its wide and should give me plenty of floatation.

Thank you so much Claudia. I will take good care of it.

The surfing season in Florianópolis is only just starting. There are two of them when the swells are the biggest, May and June, and September and October.

The sea here can be quite tricky, off-season is not bad for beginners because the swells don't drop below 3 feet. I'm glad its not quite full season yet, I can learn a little before the waves get too huge.

News to the melodies of Richard Hawley

I got married, found a new house, got some work coming up, got a new phone (I9000B), flashed it with Cyanogen Mod 6.1 beta (which doesn't work very well yet), and noticed that its exactly 1 year since I left Amsterdam as of Sunday.

Summer is coming, I'm picking up surfing and hoping to work part time at home and part time at the office. Everything seems to be settling in the right place.

Since I moved into my new place I've been going to the beach daily to check out the surf. Often when it rains there are plenty of people running down the street with surfboards under their arms.

I'm throwing a party this Sunday, and if you happen to read this in time, drop by. I know its a long way for most of you...

Otherwise feel free to drop by any other day, you have my address.