Set the Wheels in Motion: A Guide to Online Car Buying

It may only be a little over a decade since the internet began its rapid rise to universal ubiquity, but already it’s difficult to imagine how we ever got by without the World Wide Web. Besides the countless communication tools, networked multimedia applications and a wealth of information available on tap, the one aspect of every day life the internet has changed almost beyond recognition is consumerism. People no longer have to queue in banks during their lunch hour, wait in line in travel

Spotify Is the Best Desktop Music Player We’ve Ever Used [First Look]

Imagine a music app with instant access to any song you wanted to hear. Imagine creating a playlist from those songs and quickly, easily sharing it with friends. Such an app does exist, it's called Spotify, and it could change music forever. Hyperbole alert! I admit it, I'm over-the-moon about Spotify—both over what it currently is and more importantly over the potential it has. If you get a chance to try it out, I think you may feel the same way. (Click any of the full-width images for a

Spotify Is the Best Desktop Music Player We’ve Ever Used

Imagine a music app with instant access to any song you wanted to hear. Imagine creating a playlist from those songs and quickly, easily sharing it with friends. Such an app does exist, it's called Spotify, and it could change music forever. Hyperbole alert! I admit it, I'm over-the-moon about Spotify—both over what it currently is and more importantly over the potential it has. If you get a chance to try it out, I think you may feel the same way. (Click any of the full-width images for

If you’re stranded on a mountaintop with a limited selection of music, take Jake LaBotz…..you won’t be sorry, I promise.

On a family trip, we've been tossing around worst-case scenarios (imagine being trapped on a desert island supplied only with a poor representation of your favorite genre of music) and best-case scenarios (aka, who's your favorite all-time musician?). I find it really hard to peg a very favorite of all time. There are so many amazing time periods, pioneers of new sounds, gifted vocalists, scorching guitar players, fucked-up geniuses. We all have our own lists for the stranded-with-only mixtape.

Top 10 Travel Gadgets Under $50

In my romantic travel daydreams, I imagine myself marching off into the hills of Patagonia with nothing in my backpack but a change of underwear and a piece of flint. In reality, however, I — and most travelers today — bring gadgets. Lots of gadgets.From iPods to noise-canceling headphones, from digital cameras to GPS trackers, they take up space, can consume electricity and distract us from actually enjoying the trip. Gadgets also tend to be expensive, small and easy-to-lose. But gadgets can be

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