June 3, 2010
Have you ever fallen in love with a non-mainstream music band that no one has ever heard of? It feels great to discover some unrecognized talent before everyone is a fan just to be a fan. Well you can search Uvumi to find bands you would have never heard of from all types of genres. [...]
May 23, 2010
Why can’t you watch ‘In the Mood for Love’ in a cafe in Tokyo on your laptop? Why is it so hard to meet people who share the same love for Antonioni? Wouldn’t it be great to instantly send Tati’s ‘Playtime’ to a friend if you think they needed it? Why do films on the [...]
May 10, 2010
There is an overwhelming amount of information on the Internet, whether you’re getting it through your RSS reader, through Twitter, Facebook or from your favourite website. Aggregators aim to make filtering through the most popular online content just a little bit easier, whether it’s based on your own personal preferences, or simply based on what’s [...]
April 11, 2010
Online resources for discovering and downloading new music appear to be endless. And once you have discovered one that has everything you want, it’s gone. They come and go like the seasons. Some are legal, most are not. The best way to keep up with the latest single or album releases, tour dates, and the [...]
March 2, 2010
Finding new books to read isn’t always easy. Looking at the size of libraries and some bookstores, it’s hardly surprising that there’s a lot of bad stuff circulating as well. Until recently, I limited myself to word of mouth and the tedious business of reading the back of every book on the shelves. How old-fashioned. [...]
March 1, 2010
Just a day back, iTunes posted news about its 10 billionth download. The figure is just a statistic for most of us, but it is indicative of the popularity of music on the World Wide Web. Come to think of it, iTunes is just a slice of the pie. I don’t have the figures for [...]
February 23, 2010
How many gigabytes of music do you have on your computer? Or are you already counting it in terabytes? My own collection of merely 18,000+ files is safely stored on an external hard drive. Due to size limitations, I only store on my laptop what I recently downloaded. That way, I hardly ever listen to [...]
February 16, 2010
Bored with your music and want to discover some new bands or singers? There are two main ways you can do that online. You can use services which create music maps, allowing you to explore artists similar in genre to the artists you already listen to. Or you can use music blogs and websites that [...]
