Lala: The Best New Service For Music Downloads

First launched back in 2006 as a CD trading service, Lala has evolved along with its market into the most comprehensive web-based service for music downloads. Its offerings include full length album previews, an online store with 7 million songs, DRM-free high quality variable bit rate MP3 music downloads, a web-based music jukebox and social network, all in one tightly knit interface. Lala turns out to be one of those websites that are great, yet somehow aren’t yet gathering the cr

The Ultimate Flash Based Online Audio Synchronization and Editing App

Loopslab is the name for the technology that powers web based audio synchronizing and editing applications. In short its a web based mixing studio. Designed in flash the app basically places the power of being a DJ and even a full fledged musician in the hands of the average web user. It uses a very simple and intuitive interface where you can use the premade musical sample/loops and place them on a time line to make you very own special mix of sorts. If you’re slightly more adventurous

Songbird for Mac 1.2

Lee Collins, vnunet.com , Wednesday 1 July 2009 at 16:09:00 Play & manage web-based audio Songbird is developed by a band of experienced, dedicated software developers and designers called the ‘Pioneers of the Inevitable’. Previous software includes Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine. The mission of Songbird is to become the first complete web player, to play back audio and video content made available by different medial players across the Internet. You can play back any

June Board and Card Game Patents

Let’s begin with two Microsoft patents, neither of which are specifically board or card game related, but both of which are worth mentioning due to their abusive generality and obviousness: Microsoft patent 1: Instant messaging embedded games – They claim the idea of embedded a game in an IM application. E.g. your IM application let’s you play Chess with your buddies. Microsoft patent 2: Personalizing access of game web site based on user configuration – Presenting access on a web page t

Why DRM Technology is a Disadvantage to Music Downloader’s

by Susan Reynolds Digital rights management or DRM is a technology which has gained wide support within the music industry because of its ability to prevent illegal music transfers. DRM works by preventing playback if it cannot verify from a web based server that the file has been legally downloaded. While this does offer a great deal of protection to audio files and the authors of this music it can also cause some difficulty for users who have legitimately purchased the music. This has lead t