First let me say, that the method to find "unsecured" folders on the net via Google (which I am using for this Bookmarklets) was, as far as I know, discovered by the guy behind breakingwindows.com in 2004. Read the original post. Recently I found lot's of webpages, claiming they have discovered this, BUT THEY HAVEN'T !
These bookmarklets were done before the "Goolge multimedia search device" (below). They are still handy, because you can drag the links into the link toolbar of your browser.
Update:
I made a new version of the bookmarklet. Now it also searches for wma and ogg files.
The bookmarklet should work for later versions of Internet Explorer, but may not work for other browsers.
To keep the bookmarklet, Add it to your Bookmarks or Favorites<script src=\www.bookmarklets.com" language="Javascript"> IE
Tip:
This is a tip for the Mozilla/Firefox users. Should work the same for IE but I don't know. It doesn't improve the search results, but it makes the handling of the bookmark a little bit easier. Here it is:
Save the bookmark as one of your bookmarks in your bookmarkfolder. Right-click it -> Properties ->Keyword
Now enter something short like "mp3" (no quotes). Then enter "mp3" (no quotes) in the adress line of your browser. The "bookmarklet" should appear now. Ofcourse you can keep the bookmarklet in your link bar, but my linkbar is cluttered with links allready and space in this bar is very valuable
Audio and Video Search
Those bookmarklets do a Google search for Audio and Video files at the same time.
Info:
For some reason, this tool is not workin 100%. Everytime I do a search, all I see is a standard google start page. But when I hit the back button of my browser (Firefox) and do he search again, everything works fine.
Supported files:
Audio: mp3, wav, ogg, shn and flac
Video: avi, mpeg, mpg, mov
Archive: zip, rar, tar and gz
Torrent
Iso Images: iso, bin, nrg and cue
Hang on the Box were Chinas first all riot grrl band. Nowadays they seem to think more about the music then about the line up and hired a man boy for their band. Due to the "punk" hype in the western countries during the nineties there sound is (at least to my ears) very harmless, but Chinese authorities said the band were "an inappropriate representation of Chinese culture", through the band's live act, and song titles such as ’For Some Stupid Cunts At "BBS"’, and ’Ass Hole, I'm Not Your Baby’ and denied the band visas to travel to the UK in 2003.
Was heute in der "Bild"-Zeitung steht, steht morgen überall. Vielleicht sollte man sich also mal genauer anschauen, was sie schreibt. Die kleinen Merkwürdigkeiten und das große Schlimme.
The alternative country band Wilco rose from the ashes of the seminal roots rockers Uncle Tupelo, who disbanded in 1994. While Jay Farrar, one of the group's two singer/songwriters, went on to form the band Son Volt, his ex-partner Jeff Tweedy established Wilco along with the remaining members of Tupelo's final incarnation, which included drummer Ken Coomer as well as part-time bandmates John Stirratt (bass) and Max Johnston (mandolin, banjo, fiddle, and lap steel). Read more
fijuu is a 3D, audio/visual performance engine. Using a game engine, the player(s) of fijuu dynamically manipulate 3D instruments with PlayStation2-style gamepads to make improvised music. The suite of instruments in fijuu will include a non-linear beat pattern sequencer, granular synthesis tools and a graphical filterbank. fijuu is built ontop of the open source game engine 'Nebula' and runs on Linux. fijuu will be released as a live CD Linux project, so players can simply boot up their PC with a PS2-style gamepad plugged in, and play without installing anything (regardless of operating system). This effectively turns the domestic PC into a console for game based audio performances. More
I was searching for mp3 files of Souad Massi when I stumbeld over weblisten.com self claimed "first legal spanish mp3 shop" or something like that. By the time I entered the webpage I didn't know yet that they are offering only paid downloads and pressed the download button for one of the songs by Souad Massi. This is the result:
If you have installated an antivirus with firewall in your PC you must disable it and restart your Explorer to start the download.
Well of course I will disable everything and also give them my creditcard number, my amazon and ebay password. What else do they need? Maybe PINs and TANs for homebanking or the PIN for the ATM?
You should receive the same message by clicking this link, I am using Mozilla-Firefox, maybe you will see another message when using some other browser.
Kafka erzählt in "Das Urteil" die Geschichte von Georg Bendemann, einem jungen Kaufmann. Dieser besucht seinen alten Vater in dessen Zimmer. Dort entspinnt sich ein Gespräch, an dessen Ende der Vater über den Sohn das Urteil, nämlich Tod durch Ertrinken, spricht. Was danach passiert, ist sprichwörtlich "kafkaesk"!
Das Hörbuch wird von Rainer Maria Ehrhardt gesprochen - seine Stimme ist aus TV-Reportagen und Werbespots bekannt, unter anderem ZDF, SAT1 und arte.
The first tapes I bought (in the early eighties at the age of ten) were Sigue Sigue Sputnik (which I still like), Wham!, Depeche Mode and ofcourse Nena. I sold the Wham! and Depeche Mode tapes shortly after I purchased them, because it seemed that those tapes where produced especialy for girls, and I at the age of ten needed more manly music.
Some would say Nena isn't very manly music, but I only listend to a few tracks. My favourite track was "Im Land der Elefanten" ("in the land of the elephants"), yesterday I downloaded it and listend to it the first time since almost 20 years. IT WAS HORRIBLE !!! The lyrics: ...you can hear the drums, but you will never know what elephant eyes see, you can hear the VODOO drums, but you will never know what elephant eyes see.
The Nena tape survived maybe one year, my little brother, at the age of maybe three or four pulled out the ribbon. Shortly after the Nena incident, I got hold of the only tape I still posses today: Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill. A bit latter, maybe at the age of thirteen I found LPs and the holy grail of music: german heavy metal (whimps and poseurs leave the hall!!!). I grew up in a very little town were only two types of music existed: True music (aka Heavy Metal and Hard Rock) and stuff poor lost souls were calling "pop". My favourite german Heavy Metal bands where ACCEPT, RUNNING WILD and HELLOWEEN, but also (of course) IRON MAIDEN and MANOWAR. Manowar was known for its "great lyrics": Manowar, Manowar, living on the road, when other bands play, MANOWAR KILLS. On the Hard Rock side: AC/DC and Guns N` Roses' If you're interested in obscure german music, try out "Running Wild" they play Pirate Metal, Cowboy Metal and Fantasy Metal but mostly Pirate Metal. Pirate Metal means that the songs usually have a pirate theme, good example is their song "Under Joly Roger"
At the end of the 80th, hardcore arrived in our little village and I became a fan of Suicidal Tendencies. At the age of 14 I once entered my room and saw all those Manowar posters pinned at my wall (next to the Iron Maiden flag) and I was thinking, that at I am defenetly to old for LPs and posters from Manowar and I taered down all the Manowar posters (I kept the Iron Maiden flag for a bit longer).
It dawned to me, that there must be more to music than long haired men in tight spandex trousers.
In the early 90th Grunge started. Like everone else I was wearing checkered shirts but except everyone else I didn't liked Nirvana.
In 1992 (then 17 years old) I felt a bit lost (musically), because I didn't liked Heavy Metal anymore and I didn't like Grunge :-( . But then suddenly bands like Rage against the mashine apeared and I was thinking "holly shit !!!". But very soon I became bored by Crossover. After that came my "dark" stage. I never wore those helloween like gothic clothing but for a few years I listend to bands like Projekt Pitchfork and Deine Lakaien.
During the late 90th I moved to Heidelberg and later to Mannheim, small towns but towns with much more CD shops and music magzines, this and the rise of the internet in 1995 introduced me to millions of "musics" I never dreamed of as a teenager.
Why this outbreak of nostalgia ?
Everytime I have to go to the "Einwohnermeldeamt" (Citizen Registration Office) I see a very badly done graffiti, it says "there is no ending of history". Each time I see this graffitiI start to laugh, because there is a german song called "Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei" (Everything has an end, but the sausage has two) by Stefan Remmler (member of Trio). A couple of days while downloading stupid german songs I realised, that I actually never heared that sausage song. I listend to an excerpt at Remmlers homepage and as you can guess it's awfull. But aren't suasages awfull too? Sausages are the most surreal food there is. Sausage is very strange to me, just think how they are made: a gut stuffed with meat and sometimes even blood. But I have to confess, as strange sausages are to me, i still eat them from time to time. While thinking of how surreal sausages are, I started earching for surreal wurst/sausage pictures and there are lots of them:
So while spending a few minutes looking for surreal wurst pictures I stumbeld across the domain www.wurst.com the private webpage of someone called Shane, which hosts more than 1GB of mp3 and video files of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, the hereos of my pre-teenage time!!! Which made me think of all the other scary stuff I listend to while I was still very young which made me think that I never posted any private stuff to my weblog.
Iron and Wine is the stage name for one Samuel Beam, a Florida native that made his name by releasing lo fi tapes in Miami. After catching the attention of Sub Pop honcho Jonathan Poneman, Iron and Wine was asked to send material to the label for submission. After a few months, two CDs arrived in the mail, both being full length albums.
Despite a relatively small recorded output and little media recognition, Bark Psychosis was one of the most innovative artists of their era. From rather uninspired origins as a teenaged Napalm Death cover band, the British group evolved by leaps and bounds, moving from moody, lush pop to ambient soundscapes to taut, atmospheric experimental music; their work was so revolutionary, and so impossible to define, that noted critic Simon Reynolds even found it necessary to invent a new sub-genre -- "post-rock" -- simply to categorize their vision. Read More
eBay has announced it will be testing a new music download service later this year. In an announcement on its website, the online auctioneer said it is conducting a 180-day pilot in the music category with "pre-approved" sellers of downloadable digital music files.
Every now and then (to be exactly only two times yet), I write little artcles for phlow.net , a very nice german webzine dedicated to music and "net culture". This time I wrote about musicians from a very littele town called "Weilheim" in the south of Germany. You may not know the town, but you may know some of the many bands from Weilheim. Bands like The Notwist, Lali Puna or Console. But allmost no musician from Weilheim plays in only one band. Most of the bands are sharing there members. So if you like indie rock, post rock, electronica, inditronica in other words "good music", there are plenty of files waiting to be downloaded. Read the article @ phlow.net
New York City Singer-Songwriter Nina Nastasia creates intimate, spectral music that evokes some lost, skewed take on Americana and that is often laced with haunting strains of viola, cello and bowed saw. She counts among her admirers the notoriously picky, celebrated producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies), who engineered her first two albums and who has vehemently sung her praises. More
The Wire:
"EITS come up with a rock'n'roll firework display that is dazzlingly played and wonderful to behold."
Becoming known with an insane quickness due to their reputation for scathingly intense live performance and a quickly sold-out CD-R demo, Explosions in the Sky are becoming touted as the next phenomenon in moody and dynamic instrumental indie rock, à la Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor! More
Jeffrey Veen has written a nice little peace on how to use the ultimate download manager (wget) to grab all those mp3 files availible via the growing list of mp3 weblogs. Read it here
Iceland pop experimentalists Múm were formed by Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, and classically trained twin sisters Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir. Formed in 1997, the group met while working on a children's play. Smárason found his perception of music changed through hearing Aphex Twin and decided that he would abandon the guitar-based concepts of his prior bands. This was fine and dandy with his bandmates. Following a number of singles and remixes, the full-length Yesterday Was Dramatic -- Today Is OK was released in 2000 through TMT/Thule in Iceland and Tugboat in the U.K. Each of the band's four members was in their late teens when the record was released, hailed for its playful and imaginative use of all things musical and not so musical. More
