The thought of sheet music immediately makes me think about very serious musicians in an orchestra or a piano musician in a bar playing Frank Sinatra classics. I'm totally wrong, of course, but that's the image that comes into my head. In reality more and more sheet music is being accessed by musicians over the Internet. Tonara is a sheet music app for your iPad that takes sheet music well and truly into the 21st Century by turning it into a fun and very cool interactive experience. Read more
PulseRadio is an immense online electronic music portal and radio channel tool that connects the artist to his audience as well as managers, labels, clubs, festivals and promoters. It can also have the ability to turn you into a megalomaniac DJ programmer overnight. Electro music people can be a weird bunch. You can often pick them by their twitchy faces and the constant tapping of their foot whenever they hear that strangely uplifting music that electronic can be. PulseRadio gives you the ability to unleash and advertise your own music out into the stratosphere by creating your own personal channel. Read more
Well here's a new one. There have been social networking sites for everything from business to craftspeople so why not a social network for musicians (Ed, nod to MySpace). BandLink is a networking app specifically geared towards bands and musicians and it's aim is to connect the humble muso with other similar types worldwide. Read more
If you want to be up there with the big boys in your Fantasy Football League you really do have to be on the ball all the time. If you put a fair amount of time into your team you will get a fair amount of success. So how do those guys always seem to be at the top of the league each year? Its like they have inside knowledge or something isn't it? Well in truth they probably use a fantasy sports tool like BallNotes. A better way to do your fantasy sports research. Read more
I love meeting up with old friends and talking about the stuff they are listening to on the radio. Its always funny when i ask which station and they tell me about some obscure radio station I've never heard of. The tell me it just plays stuff they want to hear with little or no intervention from mouthy DJ's. Bliss. Myxer Social Radio is a bit like that. Myxer is a free social networking and chat tool for your desktop and mobile that provides a music service that changes the way you interact musically with your friends. Read more
Math tutoring has got to be one of the most thankless tasks that every parent has to go through if they want their child to excel at the subject. So what do you do about it? Do it yourself? Aaaargh! I don't think so. You could hire a tutor but that could get a little expensive. Or you can make math fun for your kids with MathChimp. This free and colorful math app for kids gathers together cool math games and organizes them into degrees of difficulty. Read more
While there is a huge number of social networking related apps of all shapes and sizes I have to admit that I haven't seen one quite like Yumety before. It calls itself a social network for dreamers and you'll see why. Yumety encourages you to write down your wish or dream and connect with others who have similar desires to create opportunities and friendships the world over. Read more
Gets The Party Started With The Music You Create! You know when you go into one of those epic dance parties and your whole body is immediately reconstructed by this fat sample coming from the speakers? There are a few bands around at the moment that are hitting it. Bands like Skrillex and Nero. Advanced IGD Studio is an amazing music app that gives you that fat sample (and much much more) so your iPhone turns into a mini music machine. Read more
WooHoo! What a brilliant concept we have here. Veenue could almost be considered a new art form. This music and video contest app is a platform that let's you create music in collaboration with musicians from the world over. When you have completed your multi instrumental masterpiece you can play them all together to make one piece of multiscreen mayhem. not only do you have an original song but you've also captured a unique film clip to go with it. Read more
Beebble is one of the very first Geo social games for your iPhone and let's you discover a hidden fantasy world hidden in your own real environment. Beebble is a rather addictive virtual town simulator that is somewhere between Farmville, Sim City and FourSquare in it's operation and developed by SeventhSide Games. SeventhSide Games has just launched its first social game “Beebble”, a city builder (a virtual town simulator) geo-localized at a junction between Farmville, Sim City and Foursquare that offers players the possibility to allow their virtual environment to interact with their real world location. The game’s story ... Read more