Posts Tagged ‘music’

Spotify, Pandora, or Grooveshark, Oh My

by Jessica B. January 19th, 2012 | Audio
As someone who loves listening to music, I must admit I find the current music app/download world a bit confusing. Now that I rarely listen to the radio, I have been searching for a great music program that allows me to test drive new music and to enjoy the music I know I love.

Spotify: I've been using Spotify quite a bit while traveling and working in Europe, so I am happy to see it finally launched in the US. Initially Spotify was free and unlimited, with occasional commercial interruption. Recently, the service added a new monthly fee to access
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BeoSound 8

by Jessica B. November 28th, 2011 | Audio
If you are looking for a top of the line, well-designed sound system for your iPhone, iPod, or iPad, and price is no object, look no further. The BeoSound 8 is a beautiful piece of sound equipment, aesthetically pleasing and highly adaptable. This little machine brings out the best in your music player.

The BeoSound 8 is small and easily transportable, but the speakers deliver high quality sound regardless of location. The bass lines come through without the shaking and rocking of the speakers, despite their small size.

There is even a room adaptor feature that allows the system to readjust
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File Sharing: A Retrospective

by Jason Lightner November 15th, 2011 | Cyber Culture
With the prevalence of file sharing, and the debates that are happening with regards to online freedom and website blacklists, I found it amusing to take a stroll down memory lane and observe the history of file sharing.

Back in the 1970s, file sharing was very rudimentary, but was nonetheless prevalent. Hackers and other computer users would share programs on floppies at meet ups, and it was fairly innocuous. In 1979 that all changed with the creation of Usenet by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis. Usenet was conceived as a way for people to participate in threaded discussion, but it was also
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