Recording music from the Internet

Radio2MP3 is a new software that lets you record music from online radio stations or music subscription services to your PC. It works just like a VCR. You can add to your MP3 library from Internet radio sites. The downloadable program lets you make individual song files automatically that you can then listen to on your iPod, MP3 Player or CD Player.

It’s 100% Legal - RIAA Safe and easier than using peer-to-peer services. Not bad for $29.

It captures MP3 files from any streaming source. Every song is automatically saved with artist name, song title, music genre, album, and perfectly separated into individual tracks. It also comes with click-and-drag CD Burner, audio splitter and converter.

Cool.

Ms. Dewey is hot - new Microsoft search engine not so

The Internet has become another form of mass media.

And with its incredible popularity has come the ability to make instant celebrities and pop culture stars. So it is with a hot new personality showing up on, of all things, a new search engine launched by… believe it or not… Microsoft.

My NBC-TV segment this week looks at the Ms. Dewey Website.

The Ms Dewey site is being promoted through viral marketing… word of mouth, forwarded emails and the blogosphere rather than outright advertising. Ms. Dewey, in reality actress Janina Gavankar, has over 600 video interactions that took three days to shoot. She pouts, teases, jokes around and gets impatient when you take too long entering your search request. She sometimes offers her own often entertaining responses to your searches.

She may be hot… but the search engine isn’t. It’s hard to read, scrolls too fast, offers a limited view.

But, hey. The Net has a new celeb.

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What’s your carbon footprint?

If Global Warming advocates are correct, our lifestyle has a very direct effect on our planet’s climate. But how much? Just what part’s of the way we live have en effect? And what can we do to make it better?

In my NBC-TV piece this week, we look at a site called CarbonFootprint, which supposedly calculates the amount of green house gases our lifestyle produces, as measured in units of carbon dioxide.

The site help us look at our lifestyle… and then make conserving adjustments, even reporting how many trees you need to plant to offset your footprint.

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Way cool! iKaraoke works with your iPod

This is SO cool! iKaraoke. Everything you love about karaoke - without the two-drink minimum. Just plug iKaraoke into your iPod, cue up your favorite tunes and you’re on. iKaraoke’s all-in-one microphone/processor isolates the lead vocal track, then fades it, giving your voice room to make that favorite tune yours.
You then plug into your home or auto audio using iKaraoke’s line out, or use iKaraoke’s FM transmitter to broadcast your tunes through your FM radio.

What are you doing? Twitter tells

This whole blogging thing continues to amaze and amuse me.

Latest buzz is about a service called Twitter. It’s a short text messaging blog. People send single sentence updates IMs about what they are doing right now. Why? I have no idea. But they do. The posts are sometimes moderately funny, angry, enlightening, encouraging and often boring.

But Twitter is the latest rage, variously described as a mini-blog, the Next Big Thing and e-ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder).

Strangest craze I’ve seen for a long time.
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