This weekend, for the second time this summer, music once again filled Chaoyang Park for the Beijing Pop Festival. Headlining was former Stones Roses front-man Ian Brown and hip hop artist Common. It was an excallent way to spend a Saturday evening and a great way to finish the Summer. Click here to view the [...]
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My colleague Chris returned from a business trip to the US today bringing me this little beauty. I loved my iPod Photo until it was unfortunately stolen out of my bag on my trip to Mongolia back in July. Since then I have been iPodless and waiting for a reason to buy a new [...]
Shareaza 2.2 P2P Filesharing Tool Released
Published September 12th, 2005 in Geek, Movies, Music and TV. CommentsAfter a year of development the latest version of P2P tool Shareaza has been released. Shareaza is a Windows–based peer-to-peer client which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2, eDonkey Network, and BitTorrent network protocols. It is free, open source, and contains no adware or spyware. If you want to download music and videos from the web this [...]
I have recently been listening to the Last.FM radio service powered by Audioscrobbler which is really cool. This offers free high-quality personalized radio that you can listen to online.
As an iPod owner with a shed-load of music, I am always on the lookout for good software for automatically tagging (i.e. adding the track, artist, album name etc.) to my music so that I can find it when browsing through my tunes on the iPod. Recently I came across this tool Musicbrainz which so [...]
Yesterday I began playing around with an interesting community service called Audioscrobbler. Essentially it is a system that monitors the music that you listen to on your computer and then recommends new artists based on the listening habits of other users on the network. Geeky but actually pretty cool.
