Monday, May 27, 2013

"Gunshots & Twizzlers" [Album]

Here's the followup to last year's "Bitch, Where's My Sandwich: The Album".  "Gunshots & Twizzlers" is available through all digital retailers (iTunes, etc) as well as my personal site, www.nerdferg.com.  You can actually purchase the album for as little as $0.99 from the latter site.  Thank you all for your continued support.

Monday, May 20, 2013

#HOVsLane Hosted By PrinceJay



I caught up with White Blog God himself, PrinceJay, and chopped it up on #HOVsLane.  We did some random, rapid fire questions, then talked about the upcoming "Gunshots & Twizzlers" album.  Definitely a fun listen.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Gunshots & Twizzlers [Tracklist]

  1. How Many Mics
  2. Pizza Party
  3. I Miss My Jumpoff
  4. Dark
  5. Girlfriend
  6. I'm Outta Here
  7. Breaking Bad
  8. Hands in the Air (Listen Here)
  9. Untitled
  10. Never Be The Same Again (Listen Here)
  11. Hyundai Elantra Music III
  12. When The Song's Done
  13. Bright Lights
  14. Oh No
  15. It Was Fun While It Lasted
Drops 5.27.13

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

$500 Visa Giftcard Giveaway [Contest]

I, along with Jen Sinclair Photography and a host of others, am part of an awesome (and extremely simple) $500 Giveaway.  For a chance to win, you need only to follow the Facebook pages of the businesses/individuals listed here.  That's it, nothing more.  Winner will be chosen randomly.  Everybody goes home happy.  Give it a shot, why don't ya?

Monday, March 11, 2013

Thursday, February 14, 2013

DeFakto - "Happy VALIANTine's Day: The Love Collection" [LP]

Just in time for Valentine's Day, DeFakto hits us with a dope project that explores the many dimensions of our strongest and most mysterious emotion.  "Happy VALIANTine's Day" is available here as a free download. 

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

You Guys, The Nokia Lumia Just MIGHT Be Greater Than The iPhone [Not A Review, But Kinda]

From 2010 to the end of 2012, I was exclusively an iPhone user.  I owned an iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S during that span.  Prior to that I owned the original Motorola Droid and afterwards, I purchased both the HTC One X and Galaxy Nexus.  My level of experience with both iOS and Android had reached somewhat of a God status, and being the tech whore that I am, I simply wanted to try something new.  Windows Phone intrigued me from the moment it was announced, but I couldn't bare the thought of leaving my beloved iTunes ecosystem.  But now that Microsoft has had time to perfect and improve upon it's fledgling OS, I figured now's a good a time as any to give it a shot.  And though there are a handful of WP8 phones currently on the market, it's clear that Nokia's Lumia is THE Windows Phone to get.  Note:  I'm well aware that there are multiple Lumias on the market, but for the purpose of this article, we're gonna refer to the Nokia Lumia 920 as the Nokia Lumia, because really...it's the only one that matters.  

But Nerd, there are barely any apps for Windows Phones!

This is the cheap cop out of arguments against Windows Phone, so I'm gonna get this out of the way right now.  I currently have virtually every app (or at least, a more than suitable alternative) on my Lumia that I had on my iPhone or Nexus.  Most of what I'm missing are games, as titles like Temple Run, Scramble With Friends and others don't exist on the platform yet.  And yes, I know: there's no Instagram.  But everything else?  Twitter?  Facebook?  (Which actually exists better in the People Hub than the standalone app, but I'll save that for another article), Pageonce? (for finance management), Dropbox?  ESPN?  Amazon?  Paypal? DirecTV?  I HAVE ALL OF IT! The apps that I'm missing, I must not have used much anyway.  Let's be real.  The majority of us want our phones to be able to tweet, take pictures, play music, stay up on FB notifications, and occasionally make phone calls.  The Lumia does all of these things, and remarkably well I might add.  

But Nerd, iOS and Android are both much more mature operating systems than Windows Phone!

Yea?  Says who?  How do we measure maturity in software?  Is it by the usefulness of it's interface?  Because I'd argue that WP8 has a better front end than either iOS or Android (and I'd probably win).  Is it by the lack of bugs or glitches?  Because both Android and iOS have had their share of snafus over the past month or few.  Is it by feature count?  Because ALL smartphones offer damn near the same set of options.  And the few that set iOS or Android apart from the crowd tend to be novelty features that no one uses more than once.  When is the last time you touched your phone to a friends phone to send a playlist?  When is the last time you used Siri to order movie tickets?  It's all fun and cute for commercials, but these are not real world applications that people clamor over.  They're selling points.  And they work, but they're not practical.  

But Nerd, Microsoft, and Windows by extension, just isn't COOL anymore!  I want my phone to be cool!

OK, you wanna pull out your iPhone 5 in a crowd and get a few gasps.  I totally get it.  But pull out a Lumia and see what kind of reaction you get.  It's one of the most beautifully designed smartphones I've ever laid my hands on, crafted with arguably the same amount of painstaking precision as Apple's darling.  Christina Warren drew stares from a restaurant full of people and got stopped on the street because of her Lumia.  You will STILL be plenty cool, trust me.  

So what you're telling me is the Lumia is BETTER than the iPhone 5?

It's becoming harder and harder to quantify "better" in the tech industry.  Any manufacturer worth their salt will be sure to include their handset with the top of line specs necessary to compete with their contemporaries.  But it's time to look at facts.  iOS is great, but arguable aging platform.  Android is great, but is just only now, after nearly 4 years, matching iOS in terms of usability and aesthetics.  The door is wide open for Microsoft to swoop in and snatch up their lunch money.  And if phones like the Lumia continue to be made, who's to say they won't do just that?  

I really liked my Galaxy Nexus.  I LOVED my iPhone 4S.  But there's something about this Lumia that I can't quite put my finger on.  Maybe it's the newness of it all.  Maybe it truly is the next big thing.  Only time, and Microsoft's commitment to continued perfection of their platform, will tell.  

Sunday, November 18, 2012

A Really Shitty Thing Facebook Did That You're Probably Unaware Of

Over the summer, Facebook did something really stupid and selfish that almost nobody (accept savvy tech news followers like myself) even noticed.  They took whatever email you had listed on your profile and replaced it with the completely useless Facebook.com email address linked with your page.  Many tech blogs, including Gizmodo (from whom I lifted that awesome header photo) outlined the steps necessary to reverse this boneheaded move.  After randomly checking 10 profiles from my chat list, I noticed all 10 of them had the Facebook.com email on their profile instead of their personal one.  You may wanna take a second and fix your contact info so people can, ya know, contact you.