Even in the absence of any real musical ability, sometimes it's fun to bash away on a drum kit. Most of the various application catalogues for smartphones have little virtual drum kits so you can drum away whenever the urge to jam comes on. The HP App Catalog for WebOS (that's the Palm Pre series, the Pixi and the Veer) has a
Grooveshark has become one of my favorite web apps. If you're a music fan then this is THE destination for checking out songs and deciding what you want to buy and what isn't as good, upon second listen, as you thought. Recently it entered the Android Marketplace...and then exited it just as quickly. Grooveshark is a controversial program, but tobody,
I am on the look out for new music and I want to hear it before I buy it. At this point of time I have iTunes and Pandora. I like them both, but they both have their weaknesses. iTunes is great way to store music you already own, but it's not very good at finding new music. The iTunes
About a month ago I received a Netgear NeoTV 550 for review. I am an avid Media Center PC user, which meant I was immediately skeptical of any replacement for my beloved HTPC. Initially I found my skepticism warranted, but over the past month that changed. It changed for two reasons - one was my own network setup problem and
Todd sounds out Stephen White from Gracenote, which provides technology services to the music and video industries. You might not have heard of Gracenote, but if you've used iTunes, you've used a Gracenote service called MusicID which autocompletes the track listings when you rip a CD. Starting out from the original CDDB (Compact Disc DataBase), Gracenote now has relationships many key
Scott Friedman presents the WOWee One (www.woweeone.com), a portable speaker that when placed down on a flat surface uses that surface to create extra bass from what is a very small portable unit designed to be used with portable playback devices such as iPods and other MP3 players. Interview by Jeffry Powers of Geekazine and Esby Larsen of MrNetCast.com Please
Charles Bellfield and Vicky Deacon of the Pure team stopped by to discuss their new internet connected radio, called the Contour. It boasts, not only full internet radio, but also an iPod / iPhone dock. It features both WiFi and ethernet connectivity, access to almost 17,000 internet radio stations (plus podcasts and Pure Sounds, which is their own library of