Thursday, January 18, 2007

[Download] Free SingStar clone for your PC

Do you want to try SingStar without having to buy a PS2? Then UltraStar might be worth looking at. As you can see on the screen shot, the interface really looks very similar to SingStar and it works like SingStar too.

There's a disadvantage though: you'll have to search the songs that the program uses yourself. You can get some songs here. If it's not there, you'll have to make it yourself, which that's not easy at all. Needless to say that downloading these songs is illegal if you don't have a legal copy of the song in your possession.

Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultrastar/

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Saturday, January 13, 2007

[Download] Floola: another iTunes+iPod alternative


Are you sick of using iTunes? Then Floola could be the tool you're looking for. Floola is an iTunes+iPod alternative that is also computer-independent. Just copy the program file to the root of your iPod, and you're good to go. It supports music, play counts, smart playlists, ratings, advanced iTunes settings such as "Skip when shuffling" and more.

Floola has one major disadvantage though: like many of these tools, Floola doesn't support podcasts yet. I also have to warn you that once you start using Floola to synchronize your iPod, you cannot revert to iTunes without losing changes that you've committed after switching to Floola. This is the case with almost any iTunes+iPod alternative and is Apple's fault.

Conclusion
If you don't need support for podcasts, this is an iPod manager that I would really recommend. Keep in mind however that once you switch to Floola, it's not easy to go back to iTunes.

Website: http://www.floola.com/
Available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
Demonstration video

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