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25 Music Application For iPhone



1. Last.fm
Last.fm, the immensely popular social music site is on the iPhone too. The Last.fm iPhone app lets you access your Last.fm account on the iPhone and listen to your favorite tracks. You can get the music recommendations according to your taste, add tracks to your playlist, purchase tracks directly from iTunes, tag the tracks, share them with the Last.fm community and much more. Certainly offers great features at a great price - $0.
Download the Last.fm iPhone app.

2. Pandora

The Pandora iPhone app is the iPhone version of the free personalized radio which is completely integrated with your web based Pandora account. It is easy to use and offers all the Pandora features. You can create a station from the current song or artist, tap the album art to get more information, email the station to a friend, bookmark songs and artists, buy tracks from iTunes and get a nice view in the landscape mode by rotating your iPhone.
Download Pandora iPhone app.

3. Shazam

Shazam is an innovative iPhone app that cures your " What was that song ? " problem. It happens to all of us, isn't it. We hear a song, love it, know we have heard it before but just can't recall it. With Shazam you don't need to. Just hold your iPhone near the speakers of the device playing that music. Through iPhone's microphone Shazam gets hold of that song and identifies the album, artist and song title for you. Cool, isn't it ? Oh, and it's free too.
Download Shazam iPhone app.

4. Ocarina

Ocarina makes one of the most unique uses of iPhone's and iPod touch's touchscreen by turning it into a flute which you can play with your fingers. You can blow into the mic and tap the four virtual holes on the screen, all of which give a cool experience of playing a real flute ( atleast to those who have never touched a flute ). In fact users of the Ocarina community can hear what you are playing in the globe mode. The cost of the app - $0.99.
Download Ocarina iPhone app.

5. Slacker

Slacker gives you access to unlimited free music on your iPhone. It is easy to use and has an elegant user interface. It can stream music from millions of songs from a huge number of artists in its library. You could also listen to over 100 expert programmed radio stations or create your own custom station. The sound quality is great and it certainly emerges as a tough competitor for Pandora. It's free to download.

6. Tuner Internet Radio

Tuner Internet radio is another brilliant iPhone radio app which gives you access to 1000's of radio stations from all around the world. You can bookmark your favorite stations, choose from your favorite genres, create your own streams and even get access to premium authenticated streams. Another nice feature is the OpenGL visualizer which adds more value to the app. It costs $5.99.

7. Imeem

Imeem is an app aimed specifically at Imeem users so that they could access their Imeem library on the go. They can access the features of the web based Imeem which includes discovering new music, creating stations with free streaming music from their favorite artists and much more. Like most of the music apps, this also allows you to purchase songs from iTunes. And like its web version, this app is free too.
Download Imeem iPhone app.

8. Midomi Ultra

Midomi Ultra is a pretty cool iPhone app which can identify music in a snap. You just need to take your iPhone near a speaker and it can identify a song in as fast as 5 seconds. Hence it works like Shazam, identifying music through the iPhone's microphone and naming the song, artist and other stuff. But there are some differences and as the iPhone blog points out, Midomi takes music identification to the next level. That's why it costs $4.99.

9. PocketGuitar

If you love playing guitar, you'd love PocketGuitar too. It turns your iPhone into a guitar, rather a virtual guitar which you can actually play like a real guitar. Yes, you could press & strum strings and get the real guitar feeling. Choose sounds from 6 different instruments like Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Electric Bass and more. Also choose effects like Chorus, Distortion etc. The best part - it's relatively cheap at $0.99.

10. Chordmaster

Chordmaster is another great app for music lovers that puts a huge library of more than 7,800 guitar chords at their disposal. It displays a virtual fretboard complete with notes and fingerings and virtual chords in various positions on the fretboard. You can strum the strings, in fact even tap individual strings to to hear the specific notes just like in a real guitar. It is priced at $1.99.

11. Cleartune

Cleartune is a seriously cool iPhone app which helps you tune any musical instrument using your iPhone (or iPod touch which has an external mic). It is a powerful chromatic tuner which displays a note wheel and a fine-tuning meter, both of which let you find the right pitch and tune for your musical instrument. You can tune stuff like acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, brass..almost any musical instrument available. The price you pay is $3.99.

12. Pianist



Pianist, as the name suggests, transforms your iPhone into a full fledged 88-key piano. You can play the virtual piano, compose and record music for a playback later, zoom into the keyboard to take a better look and access complex piano features with rich 3D graphics. Obviously it's difficult to imagine the instrument of the size of a piano on a tiny iPhone, but nonetheless this app with its cool features tries its best to create the feel. Cost - $3.99.

13. Bloom



Bloom is an interesting and innovative iPhone app which lets you create music and melodies by simply touching and tapping on the screen. The app features a colorful screen which combines artwork and instrument with composition. It can in fact create compositions on its own if left idle along with some stunning visualizations. Other features include 9 different mood settings, random mood shuffle, shake to clear, adjustable delay and much more. It's like an endless music machine. The price is a reasonable $3.99.

14. iheart Radio



iheart Radio lets you tune into the popular FM stations across the major cities in the U.S. It's a free app and offers a really good sound quality as compared to other such free radio apps. You can listen to a huge number of different radio stations like Z100, KFAN and many more. A cool feature in this app is that it can locate your position and then play the local radio stations in that city.

15. Pocket Shaker

Pocket Shaker is another fine app which can turn your iPhone into a cool percussion instrument. In fact it can turn it into any such instrument like Conga, Rattle, Shaker, Tambourine, Cowbell, Bass Drum and many more. Just hold the iPhone with the power button facing upwards and then shake it to listen to the instruments. As you keep shaking, it keeps changing to the random percussion instruments. It's free to download and use.

16. TuneWiki



TuneWiki is a highly acclaimed iPhone music app which combines many nice features in a single app. You can listen to music while checking the lyrics of the song ( which is available in 40+ languages ), check out the cool music maps to see what the people around the world are listening at the moment, access the lyrics search database and get the real time top 50 chart from around the world. All this at an incredible price - $0.

17. Lyrical



If you like checking out the lyrics of a song as much as you like listening to it then Lyrical is a must have iPhone app for you. It automatically finds the lyrics of any song you are playing and also lets you view it offline. You can search for a song lyrics by artist, title or if you just remember some lines from the song, that's enough for lyrical to fetch the corresponding song lyrics. And it's free too !

18. Amazing Piano Free



Amazing Piano free aims teaching piano to users while they enjoy the cool features of this virtual piano. It features a keyboard with the piano on top and while the notes are played you can tap the letters to match with the notes played on the screen. You can record and playback songs, experience the 16-bit high quality sounds and learn with 3 levels of music speed. And as the name suggests, the app is free to download and use.

19. MixMeister Scratch



Mixmeister Scratch is an innovative DJ Scratch tool for iPhone and iPod touch which, as they mention, lets you scratch anywhere and anytime. You can even do it one top of the song playing in your iPhone/iPod touch. It offers a list of vinyl scratch sounds to use and also lets you control the song volume while you are doing the DJ thing with it. And yes, it's a free app.

20. FlyCast Mobile Radio



Flycast Mobile Radio iPhone app offers over 1500 digital channels in different genres. It brings you a huge number of live radio streams along with some unique features like ability to pause a live station, song skipping on some webcasts and StreamAhead, which lets you listen to a station even without a connection. It also offers an in-built web browser so that you can surf the web while you enjoy the music. A great app offered for free.

21. Band



Band, developed by Moocow Music lets you create music from scratch using their collection of virtual musical instruments. It provides instruments like drums, piano, bass guitar, blues guitar, and crowd which sync well with iPhone's touchscreen allowing you to compose music with ease. You can do a lot of things with the instruments and also mix them together while composing a song. It costs $3.99 to download.

Download Band iPhone app.

22. Beat Maker



Beat Maker is a high end iPhone music app which calls itself the "mobile music creation studio". It provides a number of advanced tools and effects to help you create an intuitive composition. You can pick up audio samples, record them and use them in your composition. Other features include trigger pads, sequencing tools, advanced audio effects and more. And all this comes at a price - $19.99.

23. AOL Radio



AOL radio streams music to your iPhone from almost 150 CBS radio stations located all around the U.S. Most of us have been listening to AOL radio for years and hence having it on the iPhone wouldn't be disliked by many. You can select from about 25 genres of music. Just choose the category you like and it will play music accordingly. This app is available for free for your iPhone.

24. MiniPiano



As it is evident from the name, the MiniPiano iPhone app is for playing piano on the iPhone. And that's it, really. It has left the advanced features and complexities for other apps like Pianist and Amazing Piano free. If you are looking for a very simple mini piano to play on your phone and have fun then this is it. And it also comes with a simple price tag - $0.

25. uDrummer Lite

Drum Set fans would love to have uDrummer Lite on their iPhones. In fact any music lover would. Why ? Well, with 3 different types of drum sounds, brilliant visual effects and the ability to play along while playing your own music on the iPhone gives the feel of a real drum set. The sound quality is excellent and the drum positions are such that you can easily tap them with your fingers. Get it for free now.
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A Living Legend Still Hits the High Notes


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Picture by Daniela Vladimirova
A Residing Legend Still Hits the High Notes
Snooky Youthful
Even as the attractiveness of jazz ebbs and flows, Laguna Seaside is home to devoted aficionados of the genre, these kinds of as Laguna Seaside Reside! co-founders Cindy Prewett and Sam Goldstein, accountable for producing the common Wednesday outdoor jazz series at Hotel Laguna.
Now jazz lovers are in for a particular deal with: the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, a planet-renowned group that accompanies leading recording artists, is playing the Artists’ Theatre on Sept. twenty five. The plan contains a featured overall performance by Eugene “Snooky” Youthful, of Newport Seashore, a former Count Basie and Doc Severinson band member who at age 92 even now holds his individual amongst trumpeters half his age although he is mainly deaf.
“He nevertheless rehearses each and every day like clockwork. To preserve his lip up he plays scales,” said granddaughter Melanie Andrews.”He retains up with us and nonetheless inspires us,” added Clayton Hamilton trombone player Ira Nepus. “Snooky presents the residing background of the big band era.”
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Young recalls learning to play the trumpet at age 5. How he arrived by the nickname, he’s no longer positive of.
But, it really is not his age on your own that sets him apart. He commenced taking part in lead trumpet at age 19 for the Jimmie Lunceford band (1939-1942). He did a number of stints, eight years in total, with Count Basie, played with Lionel Hampton and also the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Band. As a freelancer he has also recorded with Charles Mingus and Jimmy Smith.
Above the years, whilst playing with Quincy Jones, BB King and the rock group The Band, to mention just a number of, he became recognized for coaxing a variety of unique sounds from his horn with the help of a plunger and cup mutes.
In 1967, Young joined the Doc Severinsen band and Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show,” a stint that lasted twenty five many years till 1992. Nowadays, he lives in Newport Seaside with his wife Dorothy, 89, and his daughter Judy Andrews, 72, granddaughter Melanie, 42, and fantastic-grandchildren Lauren, 9, and Cameron, four.
Throughout his career, Youthful has toured the U.S. and the earth and still makes appearances on the lecture circuit, these kinds of as a Sept. 27 and 28 look at Cal State Fullerton accompanied by fellow trumpeter Clay Jenkins.
Youthful, who obtained the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts’ jazz grasp award in 2009, these days also indulges one more enthusiasm, fishing. “He calls himself a fisherman, and when he’s not fishing in our canal, he feeds the ducks and the fish,” said Melanie.
The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra will mark its 25th year subsequent March. Founded by John (bass) and Jeff Clayton (saxophone, flute) and Jeff Hamilton (drums) in 1986, the group served as the Hollywood Bowl’s home band amongst 1999 and 2001, and has accompanied many recording artists these as Diana Krall and John Pizzarelli.
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LG Thrill 4G Quick Take [Video]


Due to extenuating circumstances, I was unable to get an extended amount of hands-on time with the LG Thrill 4G for AT&T. If you didn’t hear, Ma Bell’s getting a 3D device of their own. The version that they +had on hand wasn’t much different from the Optimus 3D introduced last month. It was almost exactly the same, in fact. (This one is supposed to have 4G radios at launch, of course.) They professed that it was a very early model and that it doesn’t mirror the device they’re planning to release. Still, it was worth another quick look so be sure to take another gander above and check out our full hands-on coverage of the LG Optimus 3D at this link.
PS: You’ll have to excuse my jerky camera maneuvering. There were a few people trying to get the demonstration on video at the same time and I had to keep readjusting my position.
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AT&T’s 4G Android Tablet: Acer Iconia Tab A501


It’s pretty clear that AT&T isn’t relying on the iPhone and iPad any longer: with other carriers announcing Android Honeycomb tablets left and right, AT&T finally came to the table with an offering of their own. Kind of.

In a press release, AT&T announced they’ll soon carry the Acer Iconia Tab A501. With a 10-inch screen, 1GHz dual core processor and Android 3.0, they claim the Iconia Tab A501 will be Acer’s first 4G Tablet. Kind of. In reality we already knew Verizon would be launching a nearly identical 4G Android tablet called the Acer Iconia Tab A500 and we even got hands-on with it at Mobile World Congress:
I’m pretty fearful for Acer and other hopeful Android tablet producers. It seems even Motorola – whose XOOM has gotten more hyped than most other Android tablets combined – has been unable to land a sensation in this product category. Neither Verizon or Motorola are releasing numbers so we’re left to guess, but most rumors and reports are pointing to less than stellar sales figures.
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My review of the controversial Ultimate Droid ROM


WARNING: Dragons ahead
I want to say this right off the bat: I don’t, nor did I ever, take a side in the WWIII-resembling forum war that occured between Ultimate Droid and Cyanogen and his team of developers. For those of you that don’t know what happen I’m not going to go into too much detail. In summary, Black Droid (the developer of Ultimate Droid) created a ROM called Ultimate Droid that gathered a large following. The developer got in a big fight with a CyanogenMod developer and all hell broke loose. Cyanogen showed that Black Droid had essentially copied their ROM and gave no credit for it (his full account can be found on his blog, here). Black Droid was banned from several forums and blacklisted by all but his followers (which is still a very large community).
So that’s the back story of why this ROM is controversial, but how does it run? After looking for something to bide my time until CM7 RC 3 became official, I asked one of my buddies what ROM he was running on his Droid. He told me he wasn’t sure. I took it, checked out the phone info, and was surprised to see Ultimate Droid. I’d read and witnessed so much carnage over this ROM that surely no one used it, right? Well, the ROM has still kept it’s following, and with the addition of credit being given to Cyanogen and the other developer’s work that’s been used in the ROM I figured what the heck.
Author’s Note: I am not going to review this ROM with any bias. I largely ignored the CM vs UD fight when it happened, and I had no stance in the matter; I, like many, just let it blow over. I’m reviewing this ROM based on its performance, not on its morality.
Customization
From the beginning, UD feels A LOT like CM7. Both are AOSP based ROMs, and UD was originally based off of mostly CM code. Both are fast (very fast). Both run Cyanogen’s Kernel. Both have that tweaked, stock Android feel. And both can be set up to look the exact same. In fact, if I showed you my screen shots you would not be able to tell the difference between my CM7 setup and my UD setup. This is because they both have the Theme Chooser app and largely have the same things to tweak in settings. Ironically though, this is where I feel like UD has an advantage over CM7. There are actually more options in UD than there are in CM7. Crazy right? While I wouldn’t say any of the newer ones are game changers, having more options is never a bad thing (and some of them actually are quite useful). The ability to do a hot reset in UD is fantastic, and the thing I’ve missed the most since I departed Myn’s Warm ROM. For those of you that don’t know what that is, it’s essentially being able to reset your phone but have it take a third of the time (it starts the reset from the boot animation instead of turning the phone off and beginning at the splash screen). This is great for people like me who theme a lot and need to reset their phones to see the effect. The other two big ones for me are God Mode and the option to speed up the Market. God Mode allows you to have root access using any file explorer you have. This is great for users without Root Explorer as you can essentially have the same permissions but without paying for it (however, Root Explorer is a GREAT application that I recommend for any root user). Other options include a Dalvik-Cache clear, the ability to enable/disable camera sounds and the Bootanimation (which drastically shortens boot up time), mount SD controls, the ability to change your font without flashing anything, the ability to change your bootanimation without flashing anything, the ability to change how much memory the native task manager will alot, and a few more. While I don’t want this review to be comparing this and CM7 (especially since they are nearly the same), I would actually say that this has more options than CM7…and I like being able to customize.
One thing I don’t like though is how the lockscreen has “Ultimate Droid” branded across it. not a big deal, but the option to turn it off would be greatly appreciated.
Performance
As to be expected, this ROM is very, very fast. While in my personal, unscientific tests it’s not quite as fast as CM7, the difference is nearly negligible; only the hard core performance junkies will notice (and they wouldn’t stray away from CM anyway). One thing that I do like about this ROM is that there are far less force quits and reboots than there are on CM7. Granted, CM7 is still only on release candidates, but CM has never been known for it’s stability anyway. This ROM has not rebooted on me once since I’ve flashed it, and I’ve not had a single force quit either. So in terms of stability this ROM is very good… even if it sacrifices a little speed to achieve such. Another thing that I also noticed with CM7 is that Wimax is faster than it is on Sense ROMs. I don’t know what kind of magic shenanigans Cyanogen’s team is, but they know their stuff. On the downside though, I’ve noticed the range on my wifi isn’t as good as it was on the ROMs that my phone was shipped with (Stock HTC Sense). While this isn’t really a big problem, there is one area of my house that gets limited wifi access with any device I try, and I get no wifi when I try to get it with my phone  (and the same occurred with CM7). So the difference isn’t really all that big, however if your only way to get internet is by getting a wifi signal that is occasionally disconnecting you should: 1. Probably not use this ROM 2. Tell you neighbor he needs a better router.
My Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Using an all ROM rationale, I would recommend this ROM to anyone. It’s fast, good, reliable, and is a great alternative to the people that have problems with CM on their phone (I know several people who said that they started on this ROM because CM didn’t work well with their device, but they wanted that feel anyway). However, it’s up to you if you think this ROM is “right” or not. Do know that Black Droid has given to Cyanogen and his team for what he’s used (and everyone else) and that a lot of those bridges have been repaired. If this still bothers you I couldn’t blame you for not installing it. If all you care about is how your phone runs I would recommend this ROM. I don’t know if Cyanogen and Black Droid have made up or if they still want each other dead. Honestly, I don’t care. Facebook was supposed to be a stolen idea but so many of you use it everyday; your morals are for you to decide. I will get flamed for even putting this review here, and to you I say open up your horizons. I will get praised for giving Black Droid a shot, and to you I say he did steal several people’s work.
-To each his own-
To download this ROM, visit Ultimate Droid’s official website.
…Now…when the heck is CM7 RC3 going to be released?!?!
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Rock Group Eve’s Burden Releases New CD


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Picture by BAG Blues
Rock Group Eve’s Burden Releases New CD
Eve’s Burden is a relatively new group from California. Their 1st cd The Black Letter is an remarkable rock driven 17 song disc. This album is fueled by two factors: to start with, an amazingly potent vocal effectiveness highlighted by the astounding vocal assortment of Sharon Jordan with a vocal high quality like a favorable mixture of Ann Wilson, Kelly Clarkson, Janis Joplin and Melissa Etheridge, and secondly, the awesome guitar licks during the album created by producer/guitarist Jerry Leal.
There is some thing delightfully ’80s about the total sound, with keyboard, bass, and drums rounding out the backing instrumentation and developing a solid and full rock sound. At 1st Eve’s Burden arrives off like a motor vehicle for the band’s vocalist, Sharon Jordan. Jordan confident doesn’t sing like a white girl, nonetheless, and that’s a amazing point. Rather, this diva – and indeed, she’s earned that queenly title – belts it out like a gospel choir soloist on all of these primarily-funky tunes.On deeper listening however the distinctive uplifting really feel of their songs starts to shine through. The songs are very lyrical, melodic, and catchy, with introspective and sociological lyrics. I caught up with the group’s producer, Jerry Leal and asked him to comment about the philosophy of their songs, here is what he had to say…
“Nowdays we are bombarded with bad messages in music, themes of hatred, revenge, infidelity, failure, sadness, and the like if it was a burger i wouldn’t feed it to my canine… in producing this document we determined to weave good themes into the songs, themes these as forgiveness, really like, overcoming, letting go, redemption… fundamentally just the opposite. There have been many studies done concerning the results of songs on plants and animals where “pleased/joyous” new music is demonstrated to have a wellness advertising effect and the reverse is true of harsh or negative sounding music”.
The Black Letter is well-created and all set for substantial radio play. My favourite cuts are the opener, an acoustic rock track referred to as, “Love Keeps Me Hanging On”. “Candy Girl” is stuffed with catchy lyrics, wonderful guitar work, and hand claps to boot. “The Fame Game” is a song about the life of a breakthrough musician that attributes memorable lyrics, a catchy chorus, a harmonica, and much more wonderful guitar work. “Euphoria” a ’70s rock inspired guitar riff and a stellar vocal The Black Letter is a strong debut album from an up-and-coming group that you’ll be positive to listen to a lot more about in the in close proximity to future.

EVE’S BURDEN “The Black Letter” is now offered at iTunes and all download web sites. You can get in touch with Eve’s Burden at admin@evesburden.com … Thank you and retain rockin! Fortunate Day’s songs news.
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WHY GIRLS SHOULD MARRY AN ENGINEER



Why you should marry an Engineer Let me tell you why girls should eventually marry an engineer over a Law, Management, Arts or Medical School Graduate. He has three distinct advantages over the rest of the graduates.

Advantage 1: Secure lifestyle

An engineer boyfriend can provide you with a secure lifestyle. At 27 years old, an engineer probably has a respectable, stable job that gives him a high income to own a car, invest, have a comfortable life, and get married and buy a house too.

Law graduates are still working as a lowly apprentice in law firm.

Most management graduates have just failed on their first business plan.

The arts graduate is still looking for a job.

And the medical school graduate is still living in a hospital.

Advantage 2: Unmatchable industriousness

An engineer boyfriend will dedicate an unimaginable amount of his time and effort to understand you. Engineers strain really really hard to understand their work. You can believe that they will try really really hard to understand women too, just like how they understand their work, once they believe that you are the one. So even if they don't understand you initially, they will keep on trying. Even if they still do not understand, they will figure out the correct method to keep you happy (e.g. buy diamond ring = 1 week's worth of happiness.) And once they find out the secret formula, they will just keep on repeating it so that the desired results appear.

Unlike the Lawyer who will argue with you.

The Management graduate who will try to control your spending, The Arts graduate who will 'change major'.

And the medical school graduate who will operate on you.

And you know what, it's really so easy to make engineer s believe that You are the 'one'. Say that you like one of their project and they will be hooked to you forever.

Advantage 3: An engineer boyfriend will never betray your trust.

Let me first tell you what is wrong with the rest of the others - The lawyers will lie about everything.

Management graduates will cheat your money.

The arts graduate will flirt, and you probably just look like another cadaver to the medical school graduate.

Your engineer boyfriend is either too busy to have an affair, and even if he does, he is too dumb to lie to you about that. Hence, an engineer is the most secure boyfriend that you will ever find - rich enough, will keep on trying to understand and please you, has no time for affairs, and too dumb to lie to you. plus they are cooler than the others ?
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