This months Music In Review

Whats HOT and whats NOT? If I’ve missed something, be sure to let me know!

Convert Any Song In Itunes To A Ringtone For Your iPhone

1. Find the song that you want to make into a ringtone.
2. If you want to only use part of the song, Right-click the song and select “Get Info.” Now Click the “Options” tab, and then edit the start time of your ringtone in the text box next to “Start Time” and “End Time” (if desired). Then click ok.
3. Right-click your song again and select “Convert Selection to AAC”. Wait for iTunes to convert your song. It will create a duplicate version.
4. Right click the duplicate and select “Show in windows explorer.”
5. Now leave that window open and go back to itunes, delete the duplicate, and select “keep files”
6. Go back to the folder we just left open and change the extension of the song you just duplicated to .m4r instead of .m4a.
7. Now  Double-click the ringtone file. ITunes will automatically add it to your ringtones folder in your iTunes Music Library.
8. Connect your iPhone and sync your ringtones.

Guide Modified & Simplified From eHow

Colin Buchanan – Victorian Busfires |Here One Moment FREE MP3 Download

Colin Buchanan wrote Here One Moment in 1994 after the Sydney fires, which claimed life and property within about a 10 min drive of his home. After the recent Victorian fires Colin has added a new verse, and released the MP3 Here One Moment free.

Lyrics:

Here One Moment
Words and Music by Colin Buchanan
© 1994 and 2009 Universal Music (Aust.)

Verse 1.
I love this house
I built this house
We raised our children here
The walls have shared the tumult
In the passing of the years
But we lost it all last Saturday
In the crackle and the roar
Our home consumed
Escaping
All we had was what we wore

CHORUS
Our little street
The blackened wrecks
Here one moment
Gone the next
Our little house
There’s nothing left
Here one moment
Gone the next

CHOURUS

Verse 2.
We saw the news from Kinglake
And felt our blood run cold
Marysville and Heathcote Junction’s
Ashen heart and soul
Precious big and little lives
Townships torn apart
Tears fell in the cinders
From a million broken hearts…

CHORUS
Our little street
The blackened wrecks
Here one moment
Gone the next
Our little town
There’s nothing left
Here one moment
Gone the next
Our little town
There’s nothing left
Here one moment
Gone the next

Nokia N97 Set To Release Late March 09

Remember how I told you about the new iPhone killer back in 08? Well its not far away with the Nokia N97 being released in late march.

This amazing phone has these features which flogs the iPhone out of the water.

• 3.5” Touchscreen
• Full Qwerty Keyboard
• 32GB Internal Memory
• 16gb Expandable SD slot.
• 5MP Camera
• GPS Software
• A long 430 hours standby, 6.5 Hours Talk time & 37 Hours Music Playback!

With these features a hefty price tags come though, around $1250AU ($800US)

Click HERE for Nokias Tech Specs and check out the amazing hands on video below:

Ebay applying postage cost limits on certain categories Unfair

EBay has launched a new policy restricting sellers on the amount they can charge for postage. Over the past 6 months, eBay has implementing many new policies, that have annoyed myself and many other sellers. One previous policy even tried to force all buyers to use paypal, which ebay owns. Paypal charges the seller a fee on all transactions, so this polciy would boost their profits big time as no one could use direct bank deposits. Luckily the ACCC stepped in and rejected it.

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Stone Throw At Grammer School (CCGS)

Stones Throw is this Friday 7pm @ Central Coast Grammer School. Come along and hang out with live music playing and a sweet bbq. I’ll be playing a song called Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues By Jimmy Eat world. Pretty cruisy song has an instrumental line in the middle where I rip it up.

So you should come see us play, hope to see you all there!

Join The Facebook Event HERE.

Apples New Ipods & Software Line – Australian Prices

With so many news stories around I’d thought I would summarize the latest updates of apple regarding the new ipod range and software updates. If you would like to watch the apple ipod nano presentation video you can head over here.

Firstly, lets discuss the new ipods.

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Picasa 3.0 Beta Release

It seems google is currently on a big software rollout, chrome yesterday, picasa 3.0 today and googles phone android is not long away either.

So whats new in picasa 3.0? Why should you upgrade?

There’s a brand-new feature called "name tags" in Picasa Web Albums that helps you quickly label all the people in your photos, so you can organize and share your photos based on who’s in the picture. Name tags uses advanced technology to automatically group similar faces together. That way, you can quickly label all the people you care about in your photo collection. Once you’ve labeled your photos, it’s then a snap to do things like create a slideshow with every picture of you and your best friend, or easily share party photos with everybody who appears in that photo album.

They have completely overhauled things like photo collages and slideshows, giving you more creative freedom over composition and layout. Not to mention a brand-new movie maker that can blend photos, video, webcam capture, and music to create customized movies that you can easily share on YouTube.

Theres heaps of other features that i havent listed here, but for more information Click here and head over to googles photo blog.

Download Picasa 3.0 HERE

35 Sites Where You Can Get Legit Free Music

Want some free music to add to your collection? Head over to this site where they have collated a very long list of legit music that you can download.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/31/35-places-to-download-free-legal-mp3s-music/

Media Monkey 3 – Music Managing Just Got Easier

I’ve been using Media monkey for about 5 years now and converted many people along the way to this awesome software. For those who hate itunes and I know you all hate windows media player, here is the solution. Media monkey 3! So don’t take my word word for it and down it over here.

“This release of MediaMonkey is a major upgrade over previous versions,” said Russell Samuels, VP Marketing at Ventis Media. “In addition to supporting the needs of serious collectors, version 3.0 is also slicker, more user friendly, syncs with more devices, adds Podcasting and Album Art browsing, and will appeal to almost anyone who feels that iTunes or Windows Media Player is too simple to meet their music management needs.”

The new release adds over 200 new features and improvements including. For more info on the latest release head over here.