Author: Aaron Zollo

Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow Offering DRM Free Music

Aug 22, 2008 | |

  On Monday Sony will begin offering 1 million DRM free songs for 99 cents.  This is yet another music service, but delivers not only music from Sony, BMG, Warner Music and EMI, but games, ringtones, apps as well as themes for mobile downloading.  This due to Sony trying to get into the ever more polluted music downloading services.  We do have to applaud them for no DRM and hopefully they will have an easy user interface for downloading and transferring music.

 

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The Best Hookup for iTunes

Aug 22, 2008 | |

  Have you ever wanted to listen to music at work but you forgot the music at home on your computer.  If you have a Mac you can now stream your library from home or school or wherever you are on a network using HookUp.  You simply enable sharing on your host machine and setup a username and password.  You enter the the ip (provided by Hookup) and the username/password.  Your share then shows up on the computer you are listening from.  You could do this with 10 Macs all at once all in different locations.  You can also download files from the host pc if you wanted it on your own Mac.  When you have the chance, this is definitely worth a look. [Download]

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A Browser for Social Connectivity

Aug 22, 2008 | |

  Flock 2.0 Beta was just released free of charge for Windows, Mac, and Linux users.  The idea behind Flock is that you have all of your email and social sites such as facebook and myspace available all in one place.  The browser is power by mozilla.  The 2.0 beta adds faster performance, an upgraded user interface as well as enhancements to the original feature set.  There are a ton of different browsers out there but if you want everything in one place, give flock a try. [Flock 2.0b]

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Intel Working on Wireless Recharging

Aug 22, 2008 | |

  Intel is working on wireless recharging for gadgets, laptops, etc.  The idea would be to have your gadget near the charging point but you would not need any ac adapter.  Intel states "it can broadcast up to 60 watts of power two to three feet with only a 25% loss."  Hopefully in a couple years we will be charging everything universally via wireless.  Check out the full story for the details.

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iTunes to Bring Subscription Service This September?

Aug 20, 2008 | |

 The thought of an iTunes subscription service goes back to 2005.  Today there are rumors of its release along with pricing from three separate sources.  Subscription services such as Napster and Rhapsody go back a few years.  This was great for non-ipod users who use Sansa players or any other drm capable wma player.  The downside was that there never existed such a service for iPod users.  If a subscription service for music came to the iPod it would most likely dominate the music marketplace once again.

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