I have been working on opening up all the available SXSW 2010 music on my website, in both streaming and download form. If you don’t want to use the torrents, this is for you. The site for free SXSW 2010 music download and streaming can be found here. Enjoy!

On Sunday, March 7th, during the live taping of TWiT, episode 238, Leo Laporte pranked one Twitter account by sending everyone to a random account, @LisaTickledPink and following her. Within 20 minutes, she received more than 2,000 followers.

Kevin Rose chose the random Twitter account by searching for “i hate technology”. Afterwards, Leo realized that she might have setup email alerts for every new follower and her email account was going to get loaded. He then promised the New Zealand resident a free iPad.

The “prank” was inspired by Conan O’Brien’s joke. Laporte also promised a random follower of Lisa a free iPad.

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Ah, Craigslist. The source of all unintended humor. Above is a request for a website. Enjoy.

Another day, another post at Lost in Technology, this time featuring 9 Free and Great Crowd Sourced Applications.

Friday the 19th, I was outside the Apple cube in NY. To my surprise, I turned around to nearly bump into someone who looked quite familiar. Then, in a split second, I realized that the man I had nearly bumped into, who was making his way into the store, was none other than Alec Baldwin. Getting only one shot of him before disappearing below, I thought better than to stalk him in the store and get thrown out by security guards. So, for the next 15 minutes, I stood poised outside the store, waiting for the perfect shot of Alec under the Apple logo. Finally, after freezing my extremities off, I spotted him coming out. In rapid succession, I snapped the below photos of Alec Baldwin coming out of the Apple cube in New York. Enjoy.

Later, I asked a greeter about the anomaly. He told me that Alec Baldwin visits the store often, and dropped a few names of others that have visited the destination, including Robin Williams and Oprah Winfrey.

Update: I also uploaded the photos to Flickr in the case that servers are taken down.

The writer of this post compiles the latest tech news and more at Squealing Rat, and writes about tricks and tips of deception, trickery and survival at Lone Iguana. Find him on Twitter.

Read my latest post at Lost in Technology on How To Manage Your Files Behind a Firewall for Free.

Here’s a quick update:

• Now the official blogger at This Week in Android
• Updating post frequency at Lost in Technology to once a week
• Started new blog, Lone Iguana, that features tricks and tips of deception, trickery and survival

My latest article at Lost in Technology, 4 Ways to Throw a Web Site Up Cheaply, Easily and Quickly.

Be sure to read my article at Lost in Technology on How To Backup All of Your Holiday Photos for Free Online.

Setting up short urls for your domain for free has never been easy, messing with databases and servers and all of that jazz. While you could pay $100 a year for awe.sm’s service (much easier), many (including me) find that price out of our range. Fortunately, there is an alternative. An excellent alternative. A Google alternative. I am not talking about goo.gl, Google’s latest release for a Google url shorterner. I am talking of Google Apps experimental Google Short Links. After a couple clicks, Google Short Links is setup and ready to use. Here’s how.

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