January 4, 2009
Someone once told me that ‘free’ doesn’t exist. Today it almost looks as if the whole world is trying to prove him wrong. Just look at MakeUseOf, the site you’re hopefully browsing at the moment. Where in the world can you buy a magazine with (currently) 1,754 articles for free? (more if you include the [...]
December 19, 2008
The SoundCloud is an online tool for music lovers and professionals who’ve been craving for an easy and effective way to publicly or privately share and access music. SoundCloud’s slogan is “we move music” and indeed that’s what they do. The site provides several ways to discover artists and their music: hot lists, forums, exploring [...]
December 5, 2008
actionext describes itself as a music discovery site. Yup, yet another one. But it wouldn’t appear on Make Use Of, if it didn’t offer something new and exciting that made it worthwhile. Now what would that be? In fact, I would not describe actionext as a music discovery site. It’s different and maybe even better [...]
November 6, 2008
If you have a lot of music, carrying around all of it on an external hard drive may become a hassle, and maybe you would like to just be able to go somewhere else and listen to your music wherever you want. If this is the case, probably the best option you have is to [...]
July 30, 2008
Hamachi isn’t a brand new utility or idea, but I did want to ‘spread the word’ of this excellent program. Hamachi is a service that runs in the background and connects your computer to any other computer you wish in a particular network. This creates an encrypted VPN (Virtual Private Network) between you and other [...]
July 3, 2008
DoubleTwist is a Windows-only desktop application which liberates your media from the Digital Rights Management (DRM) labels and lets you share it with your friends and also synchronizes it with various other devices including external devices such as Blackberry, Nokia N Series and Sony Ericsson Walkman Series phones. It can also convert the songs in [...]
May 24, 2008
There are numerous different free streaming music websites on the internet these days, yet not many of them are any good. I recently found Grooveshark, a free, legal online music streaming website, that is largely defined by its large user community. It is, as well, becoming a hassle to even find good websites that offer [...]
April 26, 2008
A while back, I made a decision to thin out and refresh my CD collection. Rather than dumping them off at a music store and collecting a few dollars, I decided to give Lala a try. Lala is a music player, store and discovery tool. It’s also a fantastically downplayed CD trading site. Back in [...]
April 3, 2008
Muxtape launched a little over a week ago and quickly exploded all over the blogosphere. Like a lot of people, I signed up and became instantly addicted. Just 2 days after its launch, Muxtape had to beef up its servers to handle the surge in traffic with around 5,000 people signing up per day according [...]
March 18, 2008
Sharing your music through the local network has always been relatively painless with iTunes. Essentially, it is only a 3-step process. Streaming your music through the Internet is slightly more complicated since you’ll have to find the right programs or web service which suit your needs. Some of the programs which I’ve come across are [...]
