Today, I’ve launched my brand new site, http://pastedrop.com, with my friend Andrew.

Pastedrop.com is the world’s most advanced pastebin site, that allows the users to share text and code.
There’s also other unique features like syntax highlighting, real-time syntax detection, binary reader and more.

Check it out

Last week, I decided to order a brand new midi-controller for my DJ work.

As some may know, I’m producing music and DJ’ing sometimes.

The VCI-100 seemed fine for my needs, so now I just have to wait.

Actually, it’s a bit frustrating. I ordered it on Tuesday, and the webshop says “Delivery in: 1-2 days”… Uhm… Now it’s nearly a week ago; 7 days, aight?

Well… I’ll just have to wait for it :o) Maybe I’ll post some kind of review/thoughts when I’ve tried it

I did actually buy a new soundcard too, an ESI Maya 44 USB sound card, which should be good for DJ’ing (I got a Creative Soundblaster X-fi before).

The long-waited ‘Let’s Rock’ keynote is over, and Apple has revealed 2g iPod Touch, 4g iPod Nano and iTunes 8.

Here is a brief summary of the keynote’s revealings:

iTunes 8:

• HD-TV Shows. $1.99 in SD, HD will be $2.99.
• New browsing.
• Genius. Allows you to make playlists from songs in your library that go together. And helps you rediscover music in your library.
• WILL BE AVAILABLE TODAY (9th SEPETMBER) ON APPLE.COM

iPod Nano 4G:

• Thinnest iPod ever made. Oval shape. Curved glass.
• Accelerometer. “Turn it sideways and you’re in coverflow — you get full size album art — again with photos, just turn the nano. Video is fantastic, and another cool thing is you push and hold the center button for a popup menu, you can use the Genius, you can browse.”
• Calendar, stopwatch and voice-recording.
• SHAKE TO SHUFFLE (using the accelerometer).
• 24 hours battery life for music, 4 hours for video.
• $149 for 8GB, $199 for 16GB

iPod Touch 2G:

• iPhone 3G-like back, but in stainless steel. FANTASTIC!
• Integrated volume controls on the side.
• Built-in speaker.
• Genius playlist creation.
• Nike+ receiver integrated to the iPod.

36 hours of music, 6 hours of video

• 3 models: 8GB, $229, 16GB for $299, and a 32GB for $399. AVAILABLE FROM TODAY.

Other:

• New in-ear headphones. Have a pause / play and volume control, double click goes to next song, triple click goes to previous, right from the cable, and there’s a microphone for voice recording.
• Other new in-ear headphones. They ship with 3 earbuds, and they’ve got 2 drivers each, a woofer and tweeter — they’re going to sell for $79.
• iPhone OS 2.1 firmware. Available this Friday

Photos (from engadget.com):

More will be added later.

Well.. Google wants a place in the browser market. Good luck.. :o) Think that IE, FF, Opera and Safari is enough for us, but will Googles giant success with search engines, video sites and software like Google Earth really help them on this market? Time will show.

I couldn’t resist downloading this new browser, so I went to http://www.google.com/chrome, and downloaded it.

My first impression: Whoa.. That’s a simple piece of software. It can do browsing, tabs and some other features, but that’s all. Not many features like it’s big competitors IE and FF, but that’s maybe why the whole browser feels so stable and nice to use.

Click the thumbnails for large pictures.

This is how the browser looks the first time you open it. You can view a mosaic of your most visited sites, do a search, and see your recent bookmarks. Chrome does automaticly import the bookmarks and browsing history from IE or FF.

As you may notice, the GUI is really slick, only the tabs in the top, an address bar, bookmark line, nothing more. There’s to buttons to the right of the adress bar where you can change your settings, or print the page, view page info etc.

When you delete your browsing data, you can choose in which period you want to delete.

Of course there is a developer tool, which lets you view page source etc. Each tab works as seperate processess, so you can easily see how much RAM every tab uses, and kill it, without killing the whole browser. This do also mean, that if a page in a tab crashes, the whole browser will not crash, but only the tab. In other browsers, if a tab page crashes, the whole browser will crash.

This is how it looks, when you begin visiting websites.

Every browser nowadays have tabbed browsing. So of course Chrome do also offer this. The tabs look really slick and confluents with the title of the window. This makes the whole browser look more robust, and I feel it’s very nice done.

Google Chrome do also have an awesome bar-like address bar. However, the “Type to search” text makes me thinking of a “search-application”, and not a webbrowser. This should be “Type to browse” or something.

Conclusion: When I first heard about Chrome, I was very sceptical about it, and I didn’t think that it would ever be used by someone. After trying it, I have changed my opinion. It’s really nice to browse using this browser, and I would recommend it for non-computer-nerds (like my grandmom - ha ha), but I would personally stay with IE.

Remember, this is just a beta of the browser, so it might change later on.