This edition of Sound Sunday rocks. Open your ears to pop rock, post rock, stoner rock, math rock, and ambient rock albums, many of which are instrumental. Happy Easter! Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 in the price field. That said, we strongly recommend you to donate [...]

Cable clutter is one of technology’s biggest annoyances. While it’s easy to conceal your messy cable collection in a closed box, the cables that catch dust under your table are a completely different story. Try to vacuum those tangled beasts or remove a single cable from the mess. Fortunately, the Internet is a treasure trove for great ways to organize and clean up the cable monsters under your desk.

Facebook is different things to different people. It’s used to stay in touch, play games, share news and stories, or promote brands. What unites almost everyone who regularly uses Facebook is the desire to be popular and Liked. The problem is that Facebook guards updates and doesn’t automatically show everything to everyone. The algorithm that determines how many people get to see a post is called EdgeRank and it pretty much is a black box.

The Samsung Galaxy Note II is an Android Jelly Bean driven hybrid between a smartphone and a tablet. Its key features are a 5.5-inch large HD Super AMOLED display and an integrated active stylus, called S Pen. Assisted by multi-window view and many other smart feature, multitasking becomes the Samsung Galaxy Note II’s middle name. For this review, we purchased the model GT-N7105, which is equipped with Qualcomm 4G, also known as LTE. While the review unit came with Telekom (T-Mobile) branding, we will be giving away a brand new unit without branding.

Sound Sunday is a weekly feature that promotes budding artists, independent labels, and legal music downloads. To honor the release of Depeche Mode’s 13th album Delta Machine, this edition presents a small selection of independent electronic, new wave, and synth pop albums. Enjoy the synthony. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for [...]

Did you ever wonder what your Facebook Likes reveal about you? A team of researchers from the UK figured it out for you. To demonstrate their results, they offer a free one click personality test based purely on your Facebook Likes. The results potentially reveal whether you’re neurotic, conservative, male or female, use drugs, or smoke. I tried it and boy does this seem accurate. I Like!

Don’t you hate those ugly tangles of spare cables? Eventually, we all end up with drawers or boxes full of cable spaghetti. And good luck if you actually need to find something. Not so long ago I moved into a new apartment. I had lived a semi-nomad lifestyle for over two years and moved in [...]

Sound Sunday features legal and free music downloads. We cover genres from A to Z and artists from around the world. This edition ranges from pop to death rock and was made possible by over 20 different generous artists. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 in the [...]

Have you ever entertained the thought of quitting Facebook? And how quickly did you dismiss this idea? Most of us don’t realize it right away, but we’re pretty seriously invested in Facebook. Once we have been hooked in, it is almost impossible to let go. Even if you are not that active, you are probably using a bunch of passive Facebook services. Are you even aware of how deep you have slipped into the comfy confines of social networking?

Life revolves around communication and literally nothing gets accomplished without it. Email is a communication tool meant to make your life easier. Instead of having to type up a letter or try to catch someone on the phone or in person, you can quickly type a few lines and be over it. But email can also be a significant time sink. This typically happens when it is used in the wrong way.

This is the longest edition of Sound Sunday ever. Here are all the wonderful EPs, free songs, and full albums that were left over after spring cleaning. My list is now all clear and ready for fresh suggestions and submissions. I’m very much looking forward to filling it again with all the amazing talent that [...]

Facebook has become a one size fits all social networking platform. The typical News Feed is filled with randomly mixed updates from friends, family, colleagues, and various pages. While you may want to see all of those posts, at least sometimes, you might not want to see all of them at the same time. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn’t really offer easy solutions to prune or categorize the News Feed.

Email has almost completely replaced snail mail communication. Now everyone is trying to get into your inbox. From family and friends to companies and advertisers, they all demand a piece of your attention. If you have not been managing your inbox with filters and other prioritization tools, it must be a mess. And with ever more emails cluttering it up, it’s easy to lose track. Have you ever missed an important email?

The music featured on Sound Sunday is determined by chance. My own taste merely has a mild influence. I filter for sound quality and aim to compile a balanced mix. But in the end it comes down to what the web has to offer. And that always includes buckets full of high quality electronic music. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 in the price field.

Winamp is a Methuselah among the third party Windows media players. First released in 1997 and originally developed by Nullsoft, it has become a subsidiary of AOL in the meantime. However, it hasn’t lost any of its charm and we have elected it as one of our best audio tools for Windows. Winamp remains a beast of a media player with an extensive, yet fully customizable interface.