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How To: Free Grooveshark Plus Accounts

April 19th, 2011 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 3 Comments | Filed in Music, Online

I just noticed today that Grooveshark, one of my three favorite music websites, the others being The Hype Machine and Last.FM, rolled out a new survey platform allowing their users to earn points towards getting a free Plus / VIP account (which is ad-less, and allows for many new cool features like Last.FM scrobbling and a Grooveshark Desktop Application built on Adobe Air, and exclusive preview of other new beta features).

The only survey that appeared to be available was called a Profile survey worth 150 points and I completed it.  Hopefully more will be available soon as I’m looking forward to my free Plus account!  The site states they email you when new surveys are available.

Just create or log into your Grooveshark account and under the Account button on the top right click on Surveys.  Enjoy!

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MSN Messenger Now Playing Plugin for Foobar2000 v1.1

September 26th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 8 Comments | Filed in Apps, Music

After much searching, this is a plugin that works with MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, but also works with the latest version of Foobar2000 (v1.1 at the time of writing)!  None of the other plugins I tested would work because they were out of date.

Enjoy!  Let me know it works for you!

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Components_0.9/WLM_Notifier_%28foo_wlm%29

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Blackra1n: The 30-second jailbreak!

September 2nd, 2010 by Severin Kempf | 1 Comment | Filed in Music, Tech

OK, in my last jailbreak article I taught you how to use redsn0w to jailbreak your iPod Touch or iPhone.

In this article I will be showing you a whole new way to jailbreak your iDevice… OK here are some things you need to do:

  • Update iTunes to it’s latest version.
  • Update your device to firmware 3.1.2
  • WARNING: DO NOT, I REPEAT NOT UPGRADE TO FIRMWARE 3.1.3 IT IS A FIRMWARE THAT DOES NOTHING AND STOPS BLACKRA1N FROM WORKING.
  • Download Blackra1n from here either for MS Windows or Mac OS sorry – Linux not supported.

and your ready to jailbreak.

  1. Open iTunes and make sure your devices firmware is 3.1.2 not 3.1.3
  2. Quit iTunes and launch blackra1n.
  3. Hit “make it ra1n”
  4. Wait
  5. Your device will reboot.
  6. A window will pop-up asking you to donate if this was the fastest jailbreak you ever had.
  7. On your Device go to the second page and look for the Blackra1n app.
  8. Launch it
  9. From here you can install Cydia, or rock, (I like rock) or blacksn0w to unlock your iPhone (use it with other carriers)
  10. Click uninstall blackrain. NO IT WILL NOT DELETE THE JAILBREAK, JUST THE INSTALL APP.
  11. Now go into rock, create a RockID and download away!

EASY AS PIE!

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Lyrics Plugin for Windows Media Player and Winamp

October 17th, 2009 by Craig McBrine | 2 Comments | Filed in Apps, Music

There is a neat new plugin out that is available for Windows Media Player and Winamp.   With this new plugin, the lyrics for the song you are playing will appear on your screen! You don’t have to aimlessly search for lyrics anymore!

If for some reason the plugin cannot find the lyrics (as it is in the Beta stage) you can insert and save your own! Check it out at http://www.lyricsplugin.com/

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Grooveshark: Stream Any Song

July 17th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Music, Online, Reviews

Grooveshark is a cool new music streaming service that has ‘millions of songs’ available for streaming.  You can search for music, view songs you recently listened to

It is powered by its users, as in, all the music comes from its users.  The users install Grooveshark’s upload tool, which then indexes the users’ music collection and then uploads it to Grooveshark, where it is available for streaming from any computer.

Just search for the song you’re looking for, and then play.  You can even queue things into your current playlist, and then save your playlists for future playback.

Try it out now!

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TuxGuitar – Play, Create and Read Guitar tabs

July 9th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 3 Comments | Filed in Apps, Music, Online, Tech

TuxGuitar is an exellent piece of software I recently discovered.

It is completely open-source and reads and creates Guitar Tablature files. It even is compatible with the file format used by the commercial software Guitar Pro 5, allowing it to read and write to files that software can understand.

It’s the perfect solution to get those song ideas that are stuck in your head onto paper so you don’t lose them.

Also, if you ever go on www.ultimate-guitar.com and see Guitar Pro tabs, then this can read them, so you can read the tab as the song is playing.

Download it Now! and give it a try.

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