Aaron Sokoloski

NEW IPHONE RADIO APPLICATION!!

So you like to listen to free online music on your iPhone, but for whatever reason, Pandora or AOL Radio doesn’t cut it. Now you have another choice. Slacker, the folks with the personalized radio website, now have a free iPhone/iPod Touch application to listen to online radio while on the go.Like Pandora, you tell Slacker what artists and genres you like, and it produces custom station based on your tastes. Or, if you prefer, you can listen to one of 100 pre-programmed Slacker stations.

If music comes on that you don’t like, you can skip it, but only so many times. If you want unlimited skipping, you have to pony up $3.99 monthly. It also give you Slacker ad-free. (Slacker usually shows ads on the screen while music is playing.)

EXPERIENCE THE REAL SOUND WITH CREATIVE INSPIRE!!!

Have you experienced digital surround sound in your room while using your PC? If no, then let me tell you CREATIVE has launched an amazing sound quality speaker. It’s called Creative Inspire T6100. This 5.1 channel speaker set will give no lesser than a theater effect.

No matter whether you are playing games or watching movies in your computer, this speaker set will make you feel real. When you play any Car Racing games such as NFS, you’ll feel as though you are sitting in the real racetrack. The centre speaker has been dynamically designed and its sound quality catches the listener towards itself.

A sub-woofer is provided to make you feel the beats of the music and tone. I own this for my PC and it has been giving me marvellous performance by its digital sound quality. Now I feel that it was worth spending my money to buy this masterpiece and I always advise my friends and colleagues also to go for Creative Inspire T6100 and experience the true sound.

APPLE UNVEILS ITUNE PASS!!

Apple has just launched a new service called Pass for its popular iTunes music store. It’s like a season pass for a favorite artist, in this case the electro band Depeche Mode. Fans who pay $18.99 for this first iTunes Pass immediately get two Depeche Mode singles, Wrong and the “Black Light Odyssey Dub Remix” of the new track Oh Well.Then, on April 21, they’ll receive Depeche Mode’s new album called Sounds of the Universe. Between now and when the pass expires in 15 weeks, fans will also receive videos, remixes and other content, some of it exclusive. All the material is automatically downloaded (in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format) into iTunes. Subscribers receive an email letting you know it’s there.

It’s worth noting that the press release announcing iTunes Pass came from EMI Music, not Apple. Before thinking this is Apple’s entree into the music subscription business, which is something Steve Jobs has pooh-poohed in the past, note that iTunes Pass is quite different.Under an all-you-can eat music subscription plan at a place such as Rhapsody, you have access to the material only as long as you keep paying a fee. With iTunes Pass, you own the content that has been downloaded, even after the pass expires.

It’s a safe bet Apple will soon extend iTunes Pass to other performers. In the release, Apple Vice President Eddy Cue says, “iTunes Pass is a great way for artists to give exclusive music and video, on their own schedule, directly to their fans. iTunes customers are going to love getting additional content directly from their favorite artists right when they make it available.”But Apple isn’t saying who those artists are, much less when the material will be available.

Apple also announced the public beta of Safari 4, which is available today for both Windows PCs and Macs. It incorporates a “Top Sites” visual preview feature, as well as the clever Cover Flow feature (for flipping through your Web history and bookmarks) that is familiar to Mac and iTunes users.I just started testing the new Safari, and it looks positive at first glance. I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve spent more time with it.