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+[BeaTunes][1] is a new BPM-analyzing tool for Mac and Windows that helps you organize songs by beats per minute and build playlists you might not otherwise have considered. Similar to [Tangerine][2], beaTunes scans through you music collection and attempts to determine the BPM of each song.

It might take some time to scan your library so you're probably better off doing it in batches, rather than attempting everything at one time.

Once you've analyzed your library beaTunes can assign a color to each track which helps to visually arrange songs and makes it a little easier to create playlists. Unfortunately creating playlists is mainly a by-hand experience, I wasn't able to find anyway to automate the process save sorting a playlist by BPM.

Because it's written in Java, beaTunes can be a little slow at times and it's certainly a resource hog, currently sucking down about 112MB worth of RAM (iTunes by contrast is using about half that).

There's a couple of odd "features" in beaTunes, first off is the recommendation panel that can be displayed along the bottom of the window. There aren't many details available about the recommendations feature on the beaTunes site, but the data comes from Amazon and I'm pretty sure the program is using affiliate links, which means they get a cut of your purchase.

Now with websites affiliate links don't generally bother me, but with actual desktop software that's already charging $20 for a license, it seems a bit hucksterish to attempt to monetize a feature others give away.

The other odd feature is the "Blog This" tool which allows you to post a blog entry about the selection. The tool supports any Atom 1.0 compatible blog, but I can't help wondering who's going to use it?

If you're looking for a cross-platform BPM solution, beaTunes might be the ticket. But given the lack of speed and hefty resource consumption of the current release, Mac users would be better off with Tangerine.

[1]: http://www.beatunes.com/ "beaTunes"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/tangerine_is_a_.html "Monkeybites on Tangerine"
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+<img alt="Wiredblogs" title="Wiredblogs" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/wiredblogs.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Elsewhere on Wired:

*	27B Stroke 6 has your ["Guide to a Guide to Digital Issues in New Congress."][1] Very meta. And informative.

[1]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/27bs_guide_to_a.html "Guide to a Guide to Digital Issues in New Congress"

*	Bodyhack [sums this one up][2] in the headline: "Germ-Free Paper Debuts... But Why?" Why indeed? It's high time we had an anti-bacterial backlash, spray on germs, shots that give you the flu, other fun stuff.

[2]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/germfree_paper_.html "Germ-Free Paper Debuts... But Why?"

*	Wired columnist Tony Long has an article about [the legendary Mac "1984" commercial][3] on this the 23rd anniversary of said ad. I for one never new that the Apple board tried to stop the ad from being shown and Wozniak saved it saying, "he'd pay for the spot personally if the board refused to air it."

[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72496-0.html?tw=rss.index "Jan. 22, 1984: Dawn of the Mac"

*	Table of Malcontents [has a post][4] about one of my all time favorite movies, Peter Greenaway's *The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,* which is still one of the most visceral, disturbing and beautiful films I've ever seen. Speaking of Greenaway, he has a new movie *Nightwatching*, it's currently in post production and is scheduled to be released later this year.

[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/erratic_thought_8.html "Table on The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"
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+Web 2.0! Startups! Venture capital funding for all! 

If you still have your lunch down at the bottom of your stomach then you may not see the humor in [Vojosalsa][1], but the rest of you swallowing and looking for a glass of juice will probably love it.

From the site: "written with just ONE LINE OF CODE using 'Ruby on Rails' on rails, Vojosalsa epitomizes the 'less is more' Web 2.0 philosophy. In fact, when it comes to online services, we are quite possibly the least, and thus, most."

And my personal favorite: "Wow. It seems like only this morning we put the final touches on the drop shadow and shading of our logo. I can't believe that that was actually yesterday afternoon…"

Enjoy.

[1]: http://www.vojosalsa.com/ "Vojosalsa"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot:

*	[Blu-Ray DRM has been cracked][1]. The HD-DVD competitor no longer needs to feel left out. The same person who cracked HD-DVD DRM has applied the technique to Blu-Ray and found that it works.

[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/bluray_drm_crac.html "Blu-Ray DRM Cracked"

*	Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and some others have apparently been working with human rights groups and legal experts to [devise a code of conduct][2] for protecting online free speech and privacy. I'm pretty sure that's not a joke. Perhaps Google just doesn't consider China part of the internet.

[2]: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20070122GoogleYahooMSDevisingCodeofConduct.html "Google, Yahoo, MS Devising Code Of Conduct"

*	A virus [spread through spam emails][3] with subject lines like "Fidel Castro dead" and "Saddam Hussein safe and sound" has infected thousands of computers according to Spain's Association of Internauts. Wait a sec, there's an Association of Internauts?

[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070122/tc_afp/spaincubainternet "'Castro is dead' spam email infects computers"

*	Rumor: [Techcrunch reports][4] that the domain google.de was done for many hours yesterday possibly because Google forgot to renew the domain name. If that's true is sure makes me feel better about the two domains I lost for the same reason.

[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/23/google-forgets-to-renew-googlede-site-goes-down/ "Google Doesn't Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down"

*	This just in: DRM still sucks.
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+Google quietly updated the RSS widgets on the [Google Personalized Homepage][1] this morning. Rather than simple headline links, there's now a nice AJAxy button that can expand individual items in the feed.

The preview contains the text of the feed and any images as well. I don't know about enclosure links because I don't subscribe to any podcasts through Google Personalized Homepage.

It's no substitute for a full on RSS reader, but if you use Google Homepage to stay on top of the day's news the new widgets are a nice way to quickly scan a story. (Screenshot after the jump.)

If you'd like to ["Supersize" your RSS experience][2] I compiled last weeks RSS tips into an article that went up on Wired.com this morning.

[1]: http://www.google.com/ig "Google Homepage"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72542-0.html?tw=wn_index_6 "Supersize Your RSS"
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