Entire Music Theory Offline

May 29th, 2009 If you are an avid blog reader or offline web server, this might be a breaking news for you. Now there are several occasions, while on flight or in train, when you have limited access to broadband.

March 19th, 2009 Car Music System is undoubtedly one of the most important ccessories of any Car. Unlike home entertainment systems, the car music systems have to be strong enough to absorb the shocks and vibrations in various road conditions and yet produce non-distorted sound when the automobile is in motion.

May 24th, 2006 Rumors are rife about Google's venture into lucrative online music store market, thereby competing with Apple's highly successful iPod. Declan finds that Google has added /music to its robots.txt file, potentially indicating the site can come up anytime.

February 20th, 2009 The Web 2.0 technologies have taken the mobile usage to a new level. For the Apple iPhone 3G and Android users who have been accessing their  Gmail accounts through Internet, can now do without internet.

February 7th, 2007 Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Music article explores the alternatives to DRM going forward. He explores three options - 1.

August 2nd, 2005 Russia’s most notorious spammer, Vardan Kushnir, 35, was found dead in his apartment in downtown Moscow on Monday, July 25. Someone repeatedly smashed his head with a heavy object and then ransacked his entire apartment according to authorities.

July 21st, 2006 Yahoo for the first time is offering a popular song for sale unprotected by any anti-copying technology. It's a one-time deal with record label Epic that Yahoo mentioned as significant progress toward its goal of eventually selling all music downloads with no restrictions.

August 7th, 2008 WordPress wins the dubious distinction of Mass 0wnage Pwnie Award for an unbelievable number of WordPress vulnerabilities, over 140 as of today. It seems like hardly a week goes by without a new vulnerability in WordPress or one of its many plugins.

November 16th, 2005 Copy-Protection recently came to limelight as Sony used DRM technology to copy-protect its CD's which makes them vulnerable to viruses and malware. This website allows you to search for music CD in Amazon database which do not have any kind of copy-protection enabled.

March 23rd, 2005 PubSub is a tool to push feed items to your desktop. You register at PubSub, identify topics of interest and the news will start coming to your desktop automated and in near real-time.

August 26th, 2006 FairUse4WM can be used to strip Windows Media DRM 10 and 11 (i.e. PlaysForSure, but not WM DRM 9).

September 17th, 2006 A blogger found a stash of 20, 000 MySpace passwords from a phisher's site and analyzed the results. Interestingly the most used passwords are: 13 - cookie123 12 - iloveyou 12 - password 11 - abc123 11 - miss4you 9 - password19 9 - clumsy 8 - sassy 8 - summer06 8 - pablobob 8 - boobie 8 - fuckyou1 8 - iloveyou1 8 - tink69 8 - password1 7 - gospel 7 - terrete 7 - monster7 7 - marlboro1 7 - bitch1 7 - flower 7 - space Link Does that give you an idea on the demographic profile of MySpace users? MySpace is also in news as Universal Music Group has said that social networking sites MySpace and YouTube are violating copyright laws by allowing users to post music videos and other content involving Universal artists without permission.

December 19th, 2005 Del.icio.us website currently presents you with: Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We've taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything.

January 28th, 2007 Fairplay DRM (an ironical name) actually restricts fair play by other music players. You are forced to buy an iPod if you want to listen to iTunes music.

February 5th, 2008 There is a trackback validator plugin which checks if the IP address of the trackbacking server is the same as the URL it is trackbacking for. Is this a valid check or will this result in losing many genuine trackbacks? This policy in general will work only when you are directly using the authoring interface of the blogging software like WordPress.