the scoop:

I AM MUSIC, FEEL MY WAVES.

You have entered into a glorious pool of sound. You are traveling through time with a weightless companion known as music, and as Liquid Parallax as your tour guide, prepare to be exhilarated.

Advice

Download Songs Legally without DRM

DRM Free Music Search is a new tool that combines many sources for legal song purchases. It combines eMusic, Audio Lunchbox, and other independent stores that carry DRM-free songs by artists who are not signed by the major labels. If you use the iTunes store, chances are you have files with restrictions placed on their...

Free Help (to those who ask)

I’d like to know if anyone in the entire internet world has any questions, problems, or want tips about anything. The topics are endless. It could be about food, people, art, music, websites, software, computers, the english language, guitars, or even a personal question. I’ll answer almost anything and any of your inquiries are encouraged....

Inexpensive Web Hosting

I’m just a regular guy with some spare web space that is up for grabs for small business/personal sites. If you are sick of the hassles of free hosting like I was or just want to get started on the web, theres ample space here for you to grow even after your site gains higher...

Comparison of Music Players, iTunes alternatives

In an attempt to give six other applications a try (I’ve been an iTunes user), I wrote up a review comparing several freeware media players with a focus on those that are designed to manage, organize, and use your music collection. I’m fairly satisfied using iTunes at the moment, but I have been searching for...

Guitar Playing Fiasco

I scared myself when I realized after years of playing guitar that I was incapable of playing 6-string barre chords (minor) and have all strings ring out (string 3 in particular). I am positive that I was able to do this before. The sad thing is doing something like F minor, it’s crucial to have...

Manage Checked iTems in iTunes

I’ve got an iPod that can’t store all my music, but I still automatically update checked items in my iTunes library (it’s a syncing option). I’ve found a workaround for one of my wishes that Apple probably won’t be adding any time soon. My desire is to sort tracks by check mark box (whether selected...

Recommendation: gHacks

Software and technology is where it’s at these days. Where what’s at, you say? I’m not sure, but if you’re like me you might be interested in a site that I like to visit pretty regularly. It’s called gHacks and don’t ask what the “g” stands for. Maybe goodHacks, goldenHacks, germanHacks… Anyway, I subscribed to...

Self-Awareness Experiment

What would life be like if you constantly were confronted by your immediate self? A better memory, maybe. By providing instant feedback, I think we’d be self-aware of everything. The repetition would at least for a time make us think more about what we are doing. If you were always reflected back to your consciousness,...

Entry into Virtuality

Instead of working on a lengthy paper for college that is due in a few days, I have a slew of disorganized thoughts running around my treadmill of a mind. I am a slow writer, but I think this will be pretty easy. I’ve tried to stay away from writing solely personal entries here, but...

Blogging Less Says More

I notice that traffic-hungry bloggers and web-savvy advertisers tend to follow SEO marketing schemes of creating filler content and fluffing up word count. They claim that it will keep visitors satisfied and search engines will flock to their precious keywords which will increase click-through rates. The latter may be true, but the former is problematic....

11 Best Places to Search Free Music

I wrote earlier about the death of Singingfish media search, an amazing resource of online music. Since then I’ve been seeking alternatives to singingfish.com and I’ve got 11 solutions that will help you find that free mp3 that got lost in the interweb. Starting in order from average to best (1 is average, 11 is...

High on Caffeine and Psychoactive Illusions

Caffeine, the worlds #1 consumed psychoactive drug, can stone your consciousness with irritability, dysphoria, and mania when used improperly; but when in moderation, you can review those TPS reports without falling asleep, jitter and shake to the latest dances, put your brain in the fast lane, and be buzzed without a hangover.* *One may actually...