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Two New iPod Games Announced
Electronic Arts today announced the availability of two new games for the fifth generation iPod – EA Sudoku and Royal Solitaire.
The Strangest iPod Accessory Ever?
Thanko has introduced a bizarre iPod box speaker that may be the strangest iPoc accessory ever.
iTunes Hits Two Billion Sold Milestone
Apple today announced that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 million feature-length films have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store.
NAMM Update: iKey Plus Turns Audio Into MP3s
iKEY-Audio introduced the iKEY PLUS – a device that records live audio and converts it into high quality MP3 and WAV files and saves them directly to an iPod or another USB compatible storage device.
Rock around the block with iHeartRadio
(Appolicious)
Appolicious - For me, Internet radio and mobile phones go together like peanut butter and jelly. I've seen Internet-ready clock radios, but they never made much sense to me because a computer or laptop, also able to cruise tunes on the Web, was always nearby. But, when I'm out and about, there's nothing better than listening to music from a far-off station over your phone. iHeartRadio is a handy Android app that lets you take it on the road, so it's worth the download.
MP3 Tech Commentary
Free Music Downloads This Week The free music downloads in our spotlight this week are:-=Blake Shelton=-
Genre: Country
Free Music Download: All About Tonight (Original Performance Series) (3:32) (free download available until August 24.)
Music Video: All About Tonight via Walmart Soundcheck
Album: The above track is an exclusive download taken from his new album, All About Tonight SIX PAK EP, (Reprise Records), that can now be downloaded from Amazon MP3 and other top online music stores.
New Digital Music Service Lets You Buy Songs on Your Radio UK-based DAB digital radio maker, PURE, has launched its FlowSongs service that enables consumers to buy songs directly from their radio. Owners of a PURE radio that supports Flow technology (Oasis Flow, Siesta Flow, Vanti Flow, Evoke Flow or Sensia radios) will now be able to, not only identify the songs they are listening to, but also purchase them with the click of a button.
Grooveshark Reaches Music Licensing Deal With Merlin According to an article by CMU, the US-based streaming music service, Grooveshark, has finally inked a licensing deal with the indie music company, Merlin. The new agreement will now enable Grooveshark to expand its indie music catalog and legitimately stream the artists and bands that are represented by Merlin.
Open Sesame: Setting Up Your iPad Password An iPad can potentially be a treasure trove of juicy information for unauthorized eyes. E-mails. Contact lists. Your special 30-minute remix comprised of songs by Loverboy and Rick Astley. Yep, there's a lot of potentially damaging data in an iPad. So why not secure it with a password? Check out the latest addition to our iTips: iPad tutorials section. It just might save you from shame or blackmail or even both.
Of iPad Backups and Restorations... Ever notice how the stuff you don't back up typically end up being in that one drive that crashes? Let's just say this certain person I know who oversees a certain portable electronics site once lost a certain amount of data when a certain 1 terabyte external hard drive he owned died. That really sucked like a vampire. At least I'm sure that's what this, um, certain person thought.
Velocity Micro Cruz Reader and Tablet Appear on Borders.com Are things getting a bit touchy or what? Two more touch-based devices are joining the gadget fray in a few months, this time in the form of the Velocity Micro Cruz Reader and the Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet. No word on whether Micro has a sister named Penelope (snort).
Apple Fall Event Updates So the Apple Store's down temporarily this morning right before Apple's big fall event. I don't know about you but that's almost a guaranteed sign that we might be getting some new iProducts.
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