The last couple of years has seen the social music share site SoundCloud go from strength to strength. Just released is this newly updated free app for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Touch that takes the musical community mobile and wherever you can get an Internet connection enabling you to interact, share and record music wherever and whenever you want. SoundCloud really is the easiest way to share original music with friends in your social networks. It let's music fans as well as musicians and spoken word performers easily upload and listen to music from anywhere they can get a ... Read more
One thing that's proven tricky in the past when advertising or promoting your event or product (or yourself, if it comes to that) on Facebook has been the virtual seminar. Evinar may well sound like a Arthurian adventure but in this case it's a rather wonderful event promotion application for Facebook to host any number of live events for your business (ad)venture. Here you can arrange casual hook ups, host group chat sessions and watch promotional videos with your fans and, if you are just running the one Facebook page, it's totally free. Evinar is a safe and secure ... Read more
If I told you that Camelot's Guitar Chords app is similar to GarageBand I could give it no better recommendation. The main difference here, of course, is that the only instrument you have to master is the guitar. Guitar Chords is an absolutely beautiful guitar learning app for iPhone and iPad that gives you a very tasty 6 string / 15 fret virtual guitar to learn to play on. Not only does it look like a million dollars but it sounds like it too - and all at your fingertips on your mobile. Guitar Chords lets you play guitar ... Read more
Moojive is an event sharing application for Facebook that is kinda similar to FourSquare and Google Latitude in that it let's you instantly find the locations of your friends when you go out. The idea being that if you or your friends get lost on the way to the movies or a specific restaurant, Moojive makes it pretty damned easy to find them again. Moojive is a mobile app that extends your Facebook event experience. The app makes it easy to plan events on the go as well as being able to stay on top of where your friends ... Read more
You must have heard about GarageBand. It's Apple's glorious music creator that has been around for a little while now. Well now it's available for iPad iPod Touch and iPhone and, without doubt, I have to say that it is one of Apple's finest creations. For those not aware, GarageBand gives you an array of tools that allow you to play copious amounts of instruments, record music and even jam with friends. What's more, you can play wherever you have an Internet connection and whenever you want. Whether you’re a musical prodigy or just love creating your own walls ... Read more
There's an old joke that asks "What does a drummer use for contraception?" - the answer, of course, is his personality but I think that is just nasty. I have some great friends who are drummers and at least one of them has a girlfriend. Drums Master is a fun music application that allows everybody to release their inner Ringo. The only difference here is that you can play the most beautiful drum patterns on a cool looking app on your iPhone or iPad so you won't be disturbing the neighbors too much as you jam along to The Beatles. ... Read more
You really can't get a simpler music and radio application than MyRadioList. When they say in the description that it's lean they really aren't joking. The thing is, the whole point of the exercise is to provide the user with an easy to use app where you can store direct links to your favorite radio stations so you can access them instantly whenever you want to and wherever you are. MyRadioList provides the opportunity to effortlessly list the radio stations you care for and have them available at the click of an index finger. Unless you are a fan ... Read more
Whilst social networks like Facebook and Twitter often promote charitable events one could hardly call them a social charity. Talkic, on the other hand, actively promotes itself as a social network where contributing to topics benefits causes. In real terms, that translates into Talkic donating US 1.1 cents to one of 20 Canadian charities every time you click on a topic when signed in. Talkic is a social network where topics are friends and where by clicking or contributing to a topic you will indirectly be benefitting various causes. Just by contributing to topics Talkic donates 1.1 cents for ... Read more
You must have made a mix tape or two in your life, surely? If you saw Cameron Crowe's seminal 80's movie Say Anything you'll know exactly what it is. Mixtape.li is a free MP3 music application where you can either create very cool mixes of music yourself or hunt through the copious amounts of personally chosen lists featured inside. Sounds pretty basic, doesn't it? But this is where the real beauty of Mixtape.li kicks in. It just happens to feature some of the coolest mixes of lists, connections to great music to stir your interest. Mixtape.li is a surprisingly ... Read more
TumblrPlayer is a free music player and web design application that allows you to insert a player onto your blog so that all your friends can listen to your favorite music while they read your fascinating diatribes. This simple to use music app is a very elegant addition in the music player marketplace and gives you the freedom to create your music playlists from either your own music library, YouTube, Tumblr or your Blogger account. TumblrPlayer is a free music, blog and web design application that allows you to use the wizard on the website to generate the code ... Read more