Tag: music
Dell XPS 14z Rocks – Great Speakers and Sound
Notebook audio is always a mixed bag, and often a disappointingly muddy and quiet bag at that. When you do hear good audio it’s usually found on notebooks designed to be stuck on a desk, but the Dell XPS 14z is able to pack in some of the best sounding speakers I’ve ever heard, in a surprisingly [...]
How to Set Up iTunes Match on All Your Computers and iOS Devices
Apple finally released iTunes Match, which lets iTunes check all the music you have on your computer and then lets you access it from iCloud for a yearly fee. Setup isn’t complicated, but I want to show you the steps and warn of a snag or two, so you can take full advantage of the [...]
How to Troubleshoot Sound Problems in Windows
Sound is an important part of using your PC. We use our notebooks to listen to music, listen to the audio in a movie, while we chat with friends and to listen to online radio and video. Sound also indicates various events that take place in Windows, alerting you to a completed download, computer startup, [...]
How to Redirect Your Personal Folders in Windows 7
If your system partition, where Windows, applications are installed, personal files and settings exist is beginning to fill up you have a number of options such as freeing up disk space by uninstalling applications or move files from the local drive to an external hard disk. This can be a chore though, because you just [...]
How to Stream Your Own Music Using DropTunes and Dropbox
DropTunes is a service that streams music stored in a user’s Dropbox folder to almost any browser, including HTML5 only gadgets like iOS devices. It is simple to use and set up. The hardest part will be waiting for your own music files to upload to your Dropbox cloud storage space if you haven’t already loaded [...]
mSpot Cloud Music Service Raises Storage Limit and Works on iOS
mSpot announced that they are increasing their cloud music storage service to 5GB to match the free storage Amazon Cloud Drive offers. mSpot works like Amazon’s new Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. It plays the music in a browser streamed from the Internet. Your music is available on any computer with an Internet browser and [...]
Amazon Cloud Drive & Player First Look
We were excited about the announcement from Amazon that they are offering 5GB of free storage for MP3 files and 20GB of free storage for anyone who is willing to buy an album from their music downloading service. So we immediately signed up, bought an album we were planning to get from iTunes, and tested [...]
Listen to Music and Your Surroundings w/ Audio Monitor Pass Thru on Mac
If you want to listen to your music loud, but don’t want to completely tune out your surroundings, you need to get Audio Monitor for Mac. This handy application passes audio from the Mac’s internal microphone through your headphones so that you can hear other people or events around you. This application will work great on your MacBook, MacBook [...]
GarageBand Turns Musical Idiots into Geniuses
GarageBand is one of the two new apps that Apple released along with the iPad 2 on March 11. The other is iMovie which we wills show you next week. We downloaded GarageBand and it was so fun to use that we are making it this week’s iPad App of the Week. The purpose behind [...]
Unlimited Music Streaming on Your Mac: Rdio Launches Mac App
If you’re a fan of streaming music services, you should take a look at Rdio, an unlimited music streaming service which is available in your browser, on the iPhone or Android, and now on the Mac. Rdio for Mac just launched this week and offers a native Mac app for listening to your favorite tunes. Rdio offers [...]
