For many musicians, the cost of paying a professional sound engineer to record and produce a demo CD or demo tracks for an online talent profile is just too high. A much more affordable option is to learn a little about music production and recording techniques yourself and use your favourite tools on your computer to record your own music.

If you’ve been using Dropbox for a while, you may not have noticed that a whole ecosystem of applications have been built up to use the service. Over time, these apps have sprung up to fill all of the little holes Dropbox left unfilled. There are apps now for just about everything. Read on to find out about some of the really useful ones.

If you’re a board game geek, you’ve probably heard of the game Dominion and its ever-growing list of expansion packs. That’s because it’s an excellent board game and everyone who plays it feels the need to pass that message on. In short though, it is a deck-building game where each card you pick up determines what you can do each turn.

If you’re a geek who’s also a bit of a musician, you’ve probably occasionally thought about using your own equipment to record and produce CDs. I mean, you’ve got the microphones, a decent computer, a sound editing program like Audacity and various other useful tools. What’s stopping you from making your own demo CD?

Almost everybody has a smartphone with a GPS these days, but they’re still sorely underused when it comes to creative days out of the house. If you’re a geek looking to impress a date with your creativity, passion for life and cool tools, then using your GPS to liven things up could be the answer.

If you’ve loved seeing the amazing crowdsourcing capabilities of Kickstarter in action, then you’ll love the new crowdfunding player on the block, RocketHub. RocketHub says it aims to help artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists get funded, but it seems to be highly focused on the sciences.

With Summer on the horizon for the Northern hemisphere, many of us are thinking about the possibility of getting outdoors and planning camping trips with family and friends. While getting out of the house is the main goal here, planning ahead on the computer can be worth the effort. In this case, it’s worth using the excellent free resources online to print camping checklists and remind yourself of the best camping tips.

Google+ Hangouts have recently announced they will allow everyday users to be able to share hangouts to a live audience and to save their Hangout sessions as a YouTube video to be shared later. The feature is called Hangouts On Air, which has been available to selected users for a while, but is only now [...]

You know something like this has happened to you before. You’re stuck trying to work out the supposedly obvious IKEA manual for something you just bought; you’re staring at your miserable garden wondering if you’ll ever get the time to cut it; you’re looking for a new flat, but too busy working to find the good listings. So, where do you go to find someone who can help out for a small fee?

Musicians, by necessity, need to be good at self-promotion. There are just so many bands in the world that you need to take charge of your own marketing and ensure you get noticed. Thankfully, the Internet is here to help you promote yourself easily and the latest shiny tool for you to get acquainted with is Pinterest. Musicians can really make use of Pinterest, so we’ll try to help you do a good job of it.

Facebook has just announced that businesses who have created timeline applications will now be able to offer their viewers more per update. Application creators will now be able to add an extra action link option to each update, which they can customise according to their unique needs. For users of Facebook, this means all of [...]

Does the world need another Twitter? Another Facebook? Do we need yet another place to step into the flow of Internet babble? Many people would say no emphatically, and I would possibly have agreed until now. But there’s a new player on the scene called Chime.in and it is fascinating both to read and to share updates through.

Cloud back-up provider Backupify has just announced they will support the new Google Drive in addition to their existing Google Apps back-up service. Backupify already provide back-up syncing solutions for Google Calendar, Google Docs, Gmail and more. This means that if you’re putting all your documents into Google drive, Backupify will be able to provide [...]

With most of the world in various states of recession, it’s no wonder many students are considering spending their summers doing internships. Internships give you an insight into the specific roles in your chosen field and could help you to decide where to specialise in the final stages of your courses. You learn a great deal about the positions available and what extra study could be beneficial to you.

Are your ears burning? Did you click on this title to find out what those awful non-Americans think Americans are doing wrong this time? If so, maybe this article is written for you more than you’d like to believe, whether you’re American or not. See it all in action than in the melting pot of the web where people from all walks of life are thrown in together.