Google Maps mashup Gruvr lists live local music by date and location. Just head to their homepage and enter your location (if it doesn’t automatically locate you). Gruvr begins automatically displaying upcoming concerts one at a time in what at first seems like a fun tour of what’s happening. If your location has a lot of venues, it quickly gets irritating, since you can’t stop the playback to focus on one that piqued your interest until it finishes displaying every show for the upcoming week. Despite that one user-unfriendly quirk (which could be easily fixed), Gruvr is actually a really nice idea. The weekend is upon us, so if you’re looking to hit the town for some live music, Gruvr is a good option. If you want the latest on local music but you’re not keen on Gruvr, check out Pollstar, Upcoming.org, or the iConcertCal iTunes plug-in.
AU – Gruvr found 21 shows for Melbourne, so it definitely works for Oz.
Gruvr [via Download Squad]APC magazine offers up a 10 part guide to replacing Windows with Ubuntu, written by former Atomic editor Ashton Mills.
The thing I liked about this guide was that even though it covers ground which may be familiar to you already, he’s also thrown some ‘scores’ of how well Ubuntu performs, making this part guide, part review. He also gives an overview of where Linux is at in delivering user-friendly applications for the functions users would expect (eg gaming, web browsing, playing DVDs, image editing and printing, and so forth). The section on gaming gave a nice overview of where Linux is at. Nice one, Ash. :)
The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu [APC]
Last week we took a look at the Windows desktops of our readers, and now we’re back for week two of our Desktop Show and Tell. Today’s focus: Macs. There’s no better way to learn than with a little show and tell from our peers, and we’ve got buckets of good looking, tweaked out Mac desktops for you to look at, so let’s get to it.
Find and download high quality album artwork for your music library with web application iTunes Album Art Grabber. How high quality? you ask. We’re talking up to 1425×1425 pixels—so huge. The site is still working out some kinks, but—provided the bugs are taken care of—anyone who’s spent time agonising over a music library complete with full album artwork will find the high resolutions and simple, pop-up free web site an excellent resource for adding super high quality artwork to their digital music. Share where you grab high quality album art for your tunes in the comments.
Josh’s iTunes Album Art GrabberThe British Trade Union Congress has come out with some guidelines for organisations on how to handle Facebook and the social networking phenomenon. The story is reverberating around cyberspace because everyone’s in shock that someone’s actually said something sensible on the subject for a change. Rather than calling for a ban on Facebook at work, the TUC issued a 3 page PDF guideline which looks at using Facebook for recruiting, as well as considering how to deal with timewasters and the security implications.
Don’t ban Facebook at work, researchers advise [PC World, via Techdirt]
