In the digital age, the way we consumer music has changed. Gone (for most anyway) are the days of driving to the record/music store, buying that physical disc, and then driving back home to unwrap and listen to your new collection of songs while flipping through the album art. Nowadays, we download songs a-la-carte and rarely if ever are just listening to a song. With MP3 players being a common household item now, we can listen to music and do pretty much any other task...

Last year when Apple was all jubilant about iTunes LP’s, a lot of tech people were left scratching their heads wondering wtf was going on. Over the last few years, Apple has been promoting, marketing, and pushing an entire generation towards all you can eat, cheap music via a-la-carte methods. Albums and “special edition” LP’s are a complete 180 from their general philosophy. That confusion was for good reason though. New information via GigaOhm...

We’ve highlighted a parody music video or two over the last few months. The last two that come to mind were I’m on a Mac and I’m on a phone Motha F*cka — heavy Apple themes. Overall, they were pretty entertaining. But there is a new “ultimate dork parody” in the arena that literally blows all the others away. Set to the tune of Jay Z and Alicia Key’s “Empire State of Mind”, “The New Dork” (brought to us...

It used to be that back in the day, you blew the hell out of those old game cartridges just to get them to work. At times, the sessions could go on for minutes on end, making your face blue, and head light. It was all for the greater good though. Fast forward a decade or two and games are making the move from cartridge to disc to digital download. Cartridges are still alive in today’s society but just don’t hold the importance they once did. But instead of...

Earlier this week, Wednesday to be specific, the Almighty Apple reached their 10 billionth song downloaded from iTunes. Apple was holding a contest that whosoever downloaded the 10-billionth song from iTunes, would be graced with a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Old Jobs thought that since this was such a HUGE milestone he’d give the winner a call. Here it is, a chilly February  afternoon, you are sitting, probably watching The Price is Right(since that is what 70 year old...