Freemake Music Box is a free program that will let you find and listen to almost any song online and create playlists. It is a bit like Spotify, minus the geographic restrictions and the ads, but also minus the support for handheld devices and playlist sharing →
Find and listen to music online with Freemake Music Box
Send a free, personalized message from Santa for the Holidays
Sending a personalized message to your children, friends and other family members is a fun way to celebrate the Holidays. There are a lot of fun and free ways to do this on the internet these days. Three of my favorites are: Google Santa, MagicSanta.ca, and →
How to remove Windows Media Player from the Windows 7 right click context menu
Many people do not use Windows Media Player, and yet we all seem to be stuck with the ubiquitous WMP context menu entries in Windows, cluttering the right click menu. Worse yet somewhere along the line Microsoft has inserted a strange “shop for music online” context →
SLAG-FS: a simple Windows gadget that lets you see your music from across the room
SLAG-FS is a gadget for Windows 7 and Vista that lets you play your music in full screen interface for maximum entertainment value. Featuring support for Windows Media Player 11 and 12, SLAG-FS is designed for use on large monitors or televisions, so you can see and control your →
Discover new music with Earbits internet radio
Earbits is free, commercial free internet radio geared towards helping you discover new music from emerging artists. All you have to do is tell it what genre of music you like and it will deliver a constant stream of music from artists that you (probably) had →
Useful functions for your right click menu [Part 1: media files]
The right click context menu in Windows, in my opinion, is one of the best interface devices ever conceived. The simple fact that you could have a different set of commands when right clicking a folder, a text file, or an MP3 (as examples) makes it →
Make custom ringtones with MuseTips Free Mp3 Ringtone Maker for PC and Ringdroid for Android
Ever wanted to use a part of a song as your ringtone? You can, and it doesn’t have to cost a cent. Free Mp3 Ringtone Maker lets you clip your mp3 files into ringtones for use with most cellular phones. It’s simple, easy, and efficient. It →
How to use unlimited Spotify in countries where it is not supported
You may have heard about Spotify, the ad-supported music service that will let you listen to almost any music on-demand, and a favorite of mine. Spotify is only supported in a handful of countries though, so what do you do if you go to their site →
Pandora Internet Radio, now truly free
I’ve always been a big fan of Pandora, but let’s face it; users now have many more free listening options that when Pandora first started. Which is probably why Pandora just removed the listening limit for the free service; quote “we’ve removed the listening limit for →
FileQuery: right click in Windows to search the internet for any filename, movie or music file info, and unknown file types
This program will let you right click any file to quickly search for it in Google or other search engines or services. It can be particularly useful in situations such as looking up information on movie or music files (e.g. cover artwork or reviews), or for →
Create audiobooks with chapter marks in M4B format with ‘Chapter and Verse’
Do you listen to audiobooks on iTunes, iPhone or iPad? If so, check to see whether your audiobooks are in m4b format, and whether each audiobook is contained within a single file or spanned across multiple audio files. The reason for this is that an audiobook →
Interact with your music with Jajuk Advanced Jukebox
Do you have gigabytes worth of music files? Have trouble finding the one you want at a given moment? Want to get album covers and lyrics for the tracks you own? Jajuk Advanced Jukebox is free software that can help you with all this and more. →
