iTunes Match: The Cloud service from Apple offers a compelling feature for uploading your music: You don't need to actually upload it all. When the service matches a song you have with a song for sale by iTunes, it doesn't actually upload the song, just lets you access the song from the cloud. That's a great time saver, and the fact the upload is part of iTunes is nice. I did run into some issues, though. Some of my songs refused to upload. Sometimes the reason was straightforward (duplicate songs), sometimes it was annoying (something that's not really a song, but still part of a CD), and sometimes it was just a generic error that I had no way to resolve.

Amazon Music: Amazon's Cloud service will let you upload just about any song file, and using its upload application is a snap. It takes forever, though, since you'll need to actually upload everything in your collection. In my experience the app is bullet proof, and makes it trivial to upload new songs you add to your collection later.

Google Music: Google's service is the most painful. The uploader app can't decide if it's an application, a widget that you leave running, or something in between. And worse of all, it seems to randomly ignore some files in my library, and I still don't have a good idea how to tell it I have new files to upload in a folder, short of leaving it running all the time. All of this in an application that looks like a developer wrote it without thinking about design or usability at all.

The winner for uploading? Amazon's service. iTunes is a close second, with Google being somewhere after dead last.

I'm probably the only one that cares, but after 252 days, my latest fractal rendering of a Buddhabrot is done. This will probably be my last one for a while.

Now, what should I do with my time off?

Both the Android and Windows Phone 7 versions are simpler than the iPhone version, but if there's interest in them I'll add features to the versions.

Enjoy!

Now we have a nice powerful WiFi "range extender", and our network is once again the strongest network. Well, at least until our neighbors install more access points and range extenders.

Ah well, at least for now we're the winners in the WiFi Arms Race.

Rather than annoy other developers too much though, I've decided to release the Rapi Utils source code to the world. It's not quality code, but if you need to make a small change, hopefully it'll be straight forward enough.

My big question: This building has a giant LED screen pretending to be a wall in the lobby. From time to time the wall does creative things (people crawl on it, parts fall away, and so on) to reveal a little movie. I swear I've seen this "screen pretending to be a wall" gimmick somewhere else. Anyone know where that might be?