Friday, May 21, 2010

Top Notch Music Portals You Should Visit Often


Music Portals/Websites

Music is the common language shared by everyone. Everybody is a music lover, whether it being their traditional one or international. There are hell lot of websites online which provide a platform to share, listen, upload, download, discus, and even make music. In this hub we are gonna discuss what are the top notch portals around, and what they provide you with.

music.yahoo.com

A service provided with one of the biggest player in entertainment industry. It provides a trending now feature through which you can assess what are the current trends in music, and it touches every facet of music. It has a radio station guide, an awesome listings of artists, what they are doing, what are the current videos of theirs and their photo shoots. If you are signed into yahoo than you can add/remove or create your own album listings too. Yahoo has also released a radio iPhone application, so iPhone music lovers can try that too.



allmusic.com

Its an awesome site that contains music reviews, artist biographies, and hell lot of musimation for the new releases. It covers every facet of music genre and what else, it has 380,000 page views per day. It has got a classical corner too, which classical people might take a look it.


spotify.com

Spotify is a new way to listen to music. The way thats gonna explode the music industry in ways it can't imagine. Thats what I believe. Any track you want to listen at any time, you can just search and it starts playing instantly. Isn't that cool. Yupiii, it is. Spotify is gathering hell lot of users day by day. So catch up with the band wagon too. You can listen on your laptop or on your mobile. Plus you can add your own listening from your device. Plus if your loved one is a music lover too, then there is an option of choosing a gift on his/her birthday of sending the spotify premium e-card from their website.


last.fm

It is a music recommendation service based on what you search for. So if you search for some jazz, it will pick some great jazz artists from the bucket. It has got an iPod scrobbler too to enjoy it on iPod. It has also got an iPhone app plus its own API to be used on other websites. We have been using its firefox plugin for quite a long time, and its hell awesome.


myplay.com

A service owned by sonymusic.com that gives you an A-Z list of artists and their creations. You can listen it on pc, and mobile. Plus you can shop on their own store. We like the look and feel of the site. Its quite cool.


http://www.imdb.com/genre/music

On this site you can see those movie names listings that contain stories related to music industry. You can check out which videos contains artists that are music artists too, you can find out what movies had stories that contain stories about music. Worth a try out for all the music lovers.


coda.fm

This website is for all those music lovers who download music using torrents. Great platform for torrent music sharing. Plus great categorization of music according to artists, popularity, and genre. You would have to need bittorrent software to download their music albums.


mtvmusic.com

MTV's portal where music hits the rocking awesome entertainment industry. Creation, collection, innovation, and vintage goes along here. Worth a try out daily. See for yourself. Plus do check out their twitter feed, they have quite an interesting musimation being shared.


pollstar.com

This website is for those who love to see music live in front of their own eyes. Music events are updated round the clock. And currently there are 92,000 events on it. It has a concertwire section where you can find information about the concerts and ticketing.


music.com

Operated from Los Angeles Calif., it has approximately 44000 daily page-views. It recommends you videos on ratings basis, it presents whatever new hot videos are released, and it only covers the top notch albums that are ranked top at the time. Not that great site as it should be but worth to see. Also recently it has started a lyrics channel with approximately 1 million lyrics on it. Worth a try too.
This was our list. Feel free to share your own choices in the comments section. 
Plus enjoy the Kelly Clarkson's song below.
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Wireless Technologies Throughout History Part 1


Wireless starts with the radio waves. In 1887 Heinrich Hertz was the first to detect radio waves. He created his first radio waves using a device known as 'Spark Gap Transmitter'. Hertz was asked about how he feels about the impact of his findings. He replied simply that it has no importance.
Then in 1897, Marconi demonstrates the improvements in transmitting series of electrical impulses that can generate pattern of radio waves. So that gave the right of radio to Marconi and for that he was awarded by British Patent.
Then in 1898, Tesla demonstrates a remote control boat. Due to lack of knowledge in radio technology, people thought Tesla was controlling the boat with his mind.
Then in 1906, Reginald Fessenden broadcasts his voice over AM across Atlantic.
Then in 1913, Harold D. Arnald creates his first amplifying vacuum tube.
Then in 1921, short-wave radio was developed. Due to this HF radio transmission were possible. Very long distance communications are possible through HF.
Then in 1931, FM was developed by Edwin H. Armstrong. FM was the key in transmission digital information in Radio Frequency.
Then in 1972, Ethernet was created. IEEE supervised its creation.
Then in 1982, GSM group was formed. GSM decided on digital transmission over radio. Today over 2 Billions users are on GSM alone.
Then in 1990, L-Band radio was demonstrated. Global Positioning System (GPS) works on L-Band.
Then in 1991, precurser to Wi-Fi was developed by NCR Corporation in Netherlands.
Then in 1997, 802.11 standard was created.
Then in 1998, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Toshiba, and Nokia developed a Bluetooth Special Interest Group.
Then in 1999, Bluetooth 1.0 specification was released.
Then in 2000, first consumer Bluetooth product was released by Ericsson.
Then in 2001, 802.16 WImax Standard was created.
Then in 2004, Wimax goes in Non-Line-Of-Sight communications and booming since then.
Then in 2005, Team iFiber Redwire links two points 125 miles apart using 802.11b without using amplifiers in between. The data was transmitted over Las Vegas, Nevada.
In this short part 1, we haven't covered some of the hot topics like wireless energy transfer, LTE, etc. In part 2 of this series we will be covering in depth the other technologies chronologically.
I hope you would have found this article informative.
Else enjoy the following video.
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Do Men Must Use Barbells, Dumbbells, Or Machines To Build Muscle


To many, running is the best form of exercise. The whole body gets activated when you are running, every muscle is in working, and the plus point is that it like a mobile gym. Wherever you go this gym goes with you. Does this whole true for muscle building too? If we learn about some body-physics, we might be able to do what we can do through gym.

Pullup:

Scientists and even the lifters agree that this is the most natural, and scientifically agile natural exercise. It is the best muscle builder for your upper body. It forces your back and arms to carry your whole body mass. Pullup mainly focus on the back muscles.

Lunge:

The lunge is a weight training exercise that is used to strengthen your hamstrings muscles. There are many different types of lunges. All focus on different regions on the hamstrings.

Work More Physically, Get More Muscle:
The more you work, the more you get muscles. Its an easy way around. Body joints act as small machines with levers. Now think of lifter who lifts small weights. If he/she lifts it 10 times, its easy for him. If he/she lifts 20 times, it gives a feel of heaviness. If he/she lifts it 50 times in a row, it would be hell of a task for him/her to finish. Likewise the more you work in your day to day life, the more muscle you gain.

Don't Store Elastic Energy In You body:

Elastic energy is the energy that is used when your body is in a position where it can bounce it back to its original position, thereby reducing the workload in the muscles. So its best if you release this energy first when you are about to bounce so that your muscles can take the toil for bounce. You can release it by staying in the same elastic position for 4 seconds before you bounce. For example in situps, you can stay for 4 seconds after doing 100 situps. You can use this 4 second pause in any exercise, just you have to figure out when you will be storing the elastic energy.

Have less contact with the floor:

When you are doing pushups its good to place one feet a bit high from the ground. This way you will strengthen your muscle according to following rule:
The smaller the percentage of an object's surface area that's touching a solid base, the less stable that object is. That's why SUVs are prone to rolling, and tall transmission towers need guy wires. Fortunately, humans have a built-in stabilization system: muscles. And by forcing that internal support system to kick in -- by making your body less stable -- you'll make any exercise harder, while activating dozens more muscles.
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Who is sexy? Beyonce Knowles OR Paris Hilton?


Was checking out the world's top 100 sexiest women and was thinking about cross referencing them in my book. Found it nice to check out who is more sexiest in my book, Beyonce or Paris? 
To no surprise, these hotties are no doubt beautiful and body-vise quite fit. Beyonce vs Paris is a tough job, but lets try it out.


Beyonce

Beyonce, being the most marketable artist ever, on one hand can easily pass the pencil test, she has by far the most remarkable body curves. Due to her body curves she has been called the Thigh Master too. She is being considered the race-condition queen to us too, meaning she is considered in charts of not only United States but also United Kingdom, plus fashion-vise she is extremely popular in Hispanic Communities. She is also considered bootilicious queen of black ass. We will be looking at bootilicious queen of white ass a bit latter. You know what we mean.
Usually we have seen a trend in sex. And please don't mind what I am going to write about. Usually we have seen that white girls love to have sex with black guys. We can measure the trend. But its seen very rare that trend does not pick when it comes to white girls having sex with black girls. Well, if the condition stated by 'Institute of Black Women' is met then its possible. So whats their condition, its as follows:
“Institute of Black Booty” suggests that men who want a BeyoncĂ© type are usually looking for sex and in many cases believe that a black woman with big tits and a bootylicious ass are great sex partners.


Paris

Should we say Kaboooom! or Boom Boom!. Well both matters on the part of life she shows you.
"People think I sleep with everyone, but I'm not like that. I like kissing, but that's all I do."
That phrase used by many sites these days is an extra spice that they wanna put in efforts to let her away from the mileage of being number 1. She is pretty much pretty, and she is pretty much naughty. As for as sexy, well she is pretty much kinky. She is never afraid to go public in whatever style she wants. Plus she makes more money in a year then even some of the multinationals. Just like Beyonce she wears sexy clothes, but on the other hand she speaks a lot of sexy sometimes. She attracts black and white men just like Beyonce. She arouses men a lot partly due to her being always hot and kink.
To be honest its pretty much hard to tell who is more sexy. But my vote goes to Beyonce. Beyonce is sexy from all aspects. The clothing, the poses, the style, the taste in lifestyle, the dance, and the lovers.
Please make a comment and tell who is more sexier in YOUR opinion. And also don't forget to tell about secrets of why you feel one sexy over the another.
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