This is part 2 of my iTunes article continuing from my gripes and wishlist. Now onto the stuff you’ve been waiting for. Make your music player do what you want it to do and add some useful features.
Want a shortcut to skip a song or give it a rating? Set your own custom keys with [...]

I hope that music players like Songbird or musikCube become more appealing to the public and usable for music lovers. In my limited experience with the two, they definitely exceed iTunes in one way or another. Songbird is great for surfing around for mp3s or for searching online. It lacks somewhat in speed with my [...]

The title may sound confusing or may mislead you to what exactly this thing is. It’s not a computer that can sound like a guitar, but a guitar with mounted computer technology that tunes your instrument for you. It comes with an LCD screen, tuning buttons, and can even store 240 different tunings. This seems [...]

Odd music requires odd instruments. This website has a ton of pictures of old instruments you won’t see in an American pop group. There are also experimental hybrid musical instruments and information behind them. Most of them are probably too rare for my price range, but I can try to make my own Cigar Box [...]

There is a really interesting musical frequency generator that produces unique “free jazz” style tones when you move the frequency scroll bar around with your mouse. It’s called the Jazz Machine. You can play with it online or download it to your computer. It’s completely free and easy to use. It’s fun because it can [...]

The iPod is considered a great invention or at least an advanced improvement of portable music using the latest technologies. There are also others who criticize it, who realize it isn’t perfect, and who know how cheap it isn’t. I’ve got one and I see the good and bad of it. But some creative individual [...]

High school students have a new way to get smart in English. Verse yourself in vocabulary from a hip hop perspective. Flow freestyle through the dictionary and get an A+ in your class. You can have a listen to one of the fresh rhymes called “Pop, Crackle, Snap.” This is an actual learning system for [...]