There seems to be a lot of talk going on these days about Pandora vs. last.FM. Over the past few months I have written about each of them (Pandora|Last.FM) and I am loving all of this chatter. Here is a great post from Mashable today that consolidates all of it quite nicely.
For me, these […]

I need someone on a college campus or in a company that has a large network of iTunes users to test this application out. It is called myTunes Redux and what it does is searche your network for all of the machines that are sharing music via iTunes and lets you download music that is […]

The other day I was looking for a safe place (meaning not in my house) to store backups of my website(s) and other important things. With a little digging I came across this great tool that allows you to mount your gmail account directly to your windows machine as if it was a disk drive. […]

For those like me who enjoy having their email on the go, the knuckleheads at the Google Labs have helped us out once again. Now you can go to m.gmail.com and get a pint sized version of GMAIL served up. Looks pretty good on my Treo 650.
Enjoy.
ps. Don’t skin me if this news […]

Coverflow looks like it would be a fun little app to play with for a little while. Inspired by iChat AV’s multi-person conferencing, this little gadget allows you to flip through your itunes music collection as if you were standing in front of the dollar bin at your local record store. Unfortunately for me it […]

I guess in this world of Google producing good and services like they are China and Yahoo buying up all of the new breed socials networking sites that keep popping up around the web, it was only a matter of time till one of them hit home with me. If you haven’t heard, Yahoo (via […]

Could you imagine walking around with your wireless device (i.e. PDA, Treo, Blackberry, P2P) and having music from other nearby devices sent to you wirelessly based on your own listening preferences and history? That is the dream of Push!Music out of the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute of Sweden.
Imagine that you have a mobile device […]

From this great pcworld article, ‘20 Things They Don’t Want You To Know‘, here is a simple way to syncronize your digital music collection at home to the one you have at work, using your iPod. (Windows only…though I am sure those crafty MAC users could find 100 ways to do this same thing.)
If you […]

I finally got the GreaseMonkey extension for Firefox loaded up this morning after many failed attempts. After installing my first script (Gmail Label Colors thanks to slapjack adam), it was time to start searching for some more. I was really interested in what was available to assist in listening to and downloading mp3’s from the […]

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