Muxtape started back in March of 2008 and has been growing steadily in popularity since then. To put it simply, Muxtape allowed a user to upload a playlist of songs to its site and then share those playlists with other users. The site was supported by links to Amazon’s music store, where users could purchase songs heard on the site.

Now posted on the site’s homepage, the site “will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.”

Stop supporting these dinosaurs. Go to a band’s show. Buy independent. Support the bands, not the leeches.

UPDATE: Word on the street is that Pandora is looking at a possible shutdown. Fantastic.

Plenty of new features in this version, like a handy word counter to the right of the window I’m typing this post in. Other features include:

• revisions for posts, which is quite handy for collaborative posts or tracking edits to entries,
• “Press This” bookmarklet, which you can use to instantly start writing a new post right from your browser’s bookmark bar, and pull content from that page right into your post, including media and quotes,
• live blog theme previews, which allows you to see an actual preview of your blog before you apply the theme,
• support for Google Gears, Google’s offline browser application, making WordPress administration much zippier on slower connections,
• drag-and-drop re-ordering support for blog post galleries,
• improved plugin management, including support for enabling/disabling multiple plugins in just a few clicks,
• improved post managment, allowing for multiple post modifications at once,
• added Identicon, Wavatar and MonsterID capability, which automagically generate a unique avatar based on your e-mail address, assuring that your avatar will be unique as well as consistent regardless of where you use it.

Triumph Tulip, Wikimedia Commons Image of the Day: July 15, 2008.

Lastly, the fine programmers have included the ability to add captions to blog-embedded images.
Plenty of new features, plus about 200 security and bug fixes. Keep up the great work, folks!

Their joint project to drop the Phoenix lander onto the surface of Mars has gone successfully thus far.  Launched in August 2007, the lander is designed to study the Northern pole of the Red Planet, digging into the surface to gather ice samples and data regarding prospects of past ice and water floes.  It landed safely at about 7.53p EST, and only a quarter of a degree off level.

Pretty impressive, if you ask me.

The teams will be posting status updates and media from the lander to the official Phoenix project Website.

A friend of mine recently bought a product called PrintMaster. He had some trouble installing the software and called me up for some tech support. He was receiving an Error 1305, for which a quick Google search lead me towards the following:

… Completing a clean installation of the program will help to prevent conflicts that can occur. The remainder of this note describes the procedure…

All right, I thought a clean install, let’s read on and see how to do a clean install:

1. Place a small amount of nonabrasive, liquid soap on the shiny side of the CD or DVD.
2. Using your fingertips and warm water, gently rub the soap on the disc in a circular motion.
3. Rinse the disc thoroughly and dry it using a clean, soft T-shirt or lint-free towel. Do not use paper towels or tissue paper.
4. Install the program.

Yep.  Read the original and more here.

I’ll post some more news, if you want to call it that, when it comes down the pipe.

Also, check out www.sellingcrossing.com . Perhaps they can help you find that dream job.

More here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/painting-the-town-magenta/
and the order: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/deutsche-telekom-t-mobile-demands-engadget-mobile-discontinue/

PS: This ordeal isn’t a joke but happy April Fool’s day, too.