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Skip Tunes is a Tiny, Elegent App for OSX

When you’re heads-down and working hard on something, you might have some music playing on your computer. When that happens, you don’t necessarily want to stop what you’re doing and…

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Apple Uses Facebook Even Though They're Not Partners

You might remember that some time ago Apple launched its first attempt at a social network with “Ping“. When it launched, many thought this would be a perfect spot for…

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Quick Preview In iTunes Will Save You Some Time

You can spend hours checking out new apps, books, and music on iTunes. Some of the time you spend requires you to click through to these items when doing searches….

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WhatsOutt Tells You What's in Theaters

I’m a big fan of simplistic design and when it comes to web apps, I want to know important things up front without having to click around a lot. If…

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Add Your iTunes Playlist to Rdio With Trnsmit

The best part about music on the internet is that it’s available in quite a few formats. If you’ve spent the last few years buying up a lot of music…

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AllSongsBy Finds Hours Of Music Videos To Watch

It’s not that finding music is hard these days thanks to iTunes and Spotify, it’s really about presentation at this point. On iTunes, you can listen to 30 second clips…

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Spotify is bigger than IM in Sweden

With the launch of Google Music, and iTunes upgrading its solution with a new feature called “Match“, the stream your music vs. buy each track debate rages on. It’s truly…

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Twitter Music Trends shows you who's hot

Trending topics on Twitter are a great way to see what’s hot right now on the mini social network. However, the topics that trend aren’t always all that interesting to…

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Wall of Sound beats iTunes for iOS

Music discovery is something Apple has done a great job at with its desktop version of iTunes, historically. The company has turned it into a Billboard charts for digital music….

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S Korean Apple Fans Finally Get Games

Apple fans in Korea have even more reason to be cheerful — other than the imminent arrival of the iPhone 4S — after the government lifted a ban preventing Apple…

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Facebook and Spotify could beat iTunes

Digital music has transformed year after year since Shawn Fanning brought us Napster in 1999. The service allowed you to easily download music in MP3 format that you hadn’t paid…

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Reprise for iOS makes iTunes look ugly

Streaming music services like Spotify, Rdio, and Pandora are all the rage. Amongst some circles, months have gone by since they have purchased and downloaded 99 cent songs from Apple’s…

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Digital publishing: more room at the top

Joseph Robert Lewis is a writer. He’s not your local Starbucks writer in hipster clothes, staring lovingly at his Macbook Pro and failing to break 100 words a day. He’s…

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The Evolution of Independent Music

The Internet has changed the media industries irrevocably — perhaps more than any other group of industries. Music is, of course, one of those that has undergone the most change….

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The future of content monetization

Content. Media is all about the content. And content creators have taken monetizing their content into their own hands. One of the monetization options is advertising, while another is sponsorship….