I found a cool site today while cruising around the Internet. Stage.FM is a great site to find new unsigned artists and bands. This site is a social network for independent, unsigned musicians and fans. There are several genres of music to choose from, and a lot of it is available for free download or a nominal fee (20 cents).
It is free and easy to set up an account. Once your account is set up, you can start browsing through all of the music. Add favorite bands and share your playlist with other members. If you are in a band or want to manage a band there is a control panel set up for that as well.
Choose the genre of music you like the best and scroll through the various artists and click on the play icon. You get a cool flash based player which resembles iTunes. I ended up loading the player with about 15 different songs from various bands. Once you play a song you can go back and listen to it again and again. You can also share your playlist with others.
This is a social music site much like Last.FM but with independent artists. If you have a band or a musician you can upload your recordings as well. This is an example of a page I made for my band.
I honestly love the idea of this site! Unlike myspace which is full of the world’s worst code and is extremely slow … Stage.FM allows you to quick and easily find new artists and share your favorites.
I guess I will continue this week’s theme of media players by introducing you to J River Media Jukebox. I have to say I am quite impressed so far with this player.
After installing Windows Live Messenger, I noticed a really annoying addition to My Computer… a new icon called “My Sharing Folders”. So how exactly do I remove this icon I’ll never use?
After installing a bunch of software required for work, I noticed that I had a new icon under “My” Computer that I hadn’t noticed before. What is this Web Folders icon, and how do I get rid of it?
A reader wrote in this week asking why his folder pane in Windows XP wasn’t working… it didn’t display anything other than a gray background with nothing else. This is actually a common problem that I’ve personally experienced before, which I luckily knew the solution to.
I’ve always wondered why Windows doesn’t allow you to set an arbitrary size for the filesystem cache. What if you have a slow hard drive in your laptop, but loads of available system memory? Shouldn’t you be able to maximize that memory in order to speed up hard drive access?
As many of you know, after my iTunes rant, I have been trying out all sorts of new media players. I guess I still have not found an “ultimate player” that I am completely satisfied with yet. Each player seems to have its positive and negative points for me. The trusty standby has been VLC
So you login to your computer every single day, but there’s more than one account to choose from… either because you got the computer from somebody else, or some software package added a user account that you really don’t want to see. So how do we hide that other account from the login screen?
Using the Internet on your Android phone isn't as secure or private as you might hope. Fortunately, you can protect your mobile communications with one of these secure virtual private network (or VPN) apps.
Soon, developers will have the option to create a limited-time introductory price for new subscribers.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Skype are being throttled.
