The Hidden Guide

How To Legally Download Music Online For Free

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Mida2 Comments

Yes you can really download music online for free legally, you don;t have to spend a lot of money to download music or illegally, here is top places to legally download music online for free.

1.Amazon

I bet you didn’t even know about that, well many people don’t, but you can actually download music from amazon for free,amazon has a ton of free songs and albums available in their store. there are more than 840 songs available for free as album-samplers featuring all kinds of acts from Paul Simon to indie groups.

 

2.last.fm

You may already know this last.fm is perhaps best known for its intelligent internet streaming radio service, but it also offers up a nice selection of free MP3 downloads  and many of them from prominent artists.

3.The Live Music Archive

The Live Music Archive or etree.org claims to be a community committed to providing high quality live recordings  Featuring a long list of commercial and indie artists performing live including Hot Buttered Rum and Smashing Pumpkins, this is a great place to complement your existing music collection.

4.SXSW

SXSW is a music festival held annually in Austin, Texas, which has been taking the world by storm.  If you didn’t make it to the festival, you’ll be glad to know that all the music from 2005 till 2009 is available for free download

5.Free Music Archive

The Free Music Archive is a movement inspired by open source ideas ,here you’ll find free and perfectly legal music created by mostly indie artists.

6-ccMixter

ccMixter is a place where you’ll find tracks that have been remixed by users, some with outstanding results. If you’re getting tired of what you’re hearing now, a visit to this site might refresh your senses.

7.Muzzie

Muzzie is a site which offers free Japanese music downloads.  If you don’t understand Japanese, you may not understand the reviews but the MP3 title is in English are you’ll know where to click.

8.Epitonic

Epitonic another featuring fresh indie music that has been handpicked by audiophiles. Members can also listen to college radio stations, read reviews and view artists profile in this well managed site.

9.OverClocked ReMix

 

OverClocked ReMix is a huge library of video game music. Although there are music from games such as Pokémon, and Final Fantasy, its true draw lies in the remixes done by fans also you’ll find thousands of dedicated work done for the love of gaming.

10.LegalTorrents

LegalTorrents is an “online digital media community” that hosts thousands of music files, downloadable using a torrent p2p software. Of course, being a media community, there are also pictures, videos, audio books and other free goodies available for grabs.

11.ArtistServer.com

ArtistServer.com is a huge collection of over 10,000 songs, complete with artist information and social review capabilities. Head on here if you’re in need of fresh music to complement your music collection.

12.Garageband

Garageband is a social review network for independent bands vying for exposure. You can vote for your favorite indie bands and help take them to stardom.

13.Wikipedia Sound/list

On Wikipedia you will find a huge list of classical music downloads which are in the public domain, or shared by the commons law. Get songs from all your favorite composers from Bach to Beethoven here.

14.PureVolume

PureVolume is a premier social music site with streaming as well as downloadable songs from emerging artists.

15.mp3.com

mp3.com has offered countless artists the chance to strut their stuff before the world. It still offers up one of the largest collections of free legal music to date.

16.thesixtyone

thesixtyone and yet another indie music, with  digg style voting system where you can play a active role in making unknown people stars on the indie scene.

17.Amie Street

Amie Street, a community that determines the price of music. Every song starts cheap or free and increases in price up to 98 cents as more and more people purchase it.  This ensures that you get music at a sensible price. If you find cheap songs or albums, that means they’re new to the site and/or undiscovered; conversely, when you pay top price for an album, you know that a lot of people think it’s really good. 

18.Archive.org

Archive.org, the Internet’s super-archive has with them a very interesting collection of really old records, now preserved digitally.  Here you can download from this collection of thousands of 78rpm records and cylinder recordings released in the early 20th century.

19.Jamendo

Jamendo offers the largest catalog of music under Creative Commons licenses. For artists, it’s an easy and efficient way to publish, share and promote their music, and also to make money, through ad revenue sharing and commercial partnerships.

20.iLike

 

iLike allows you to share playlists and recommendations with friends riding on social networks such as Facebook and Bebo, as well as download some of the songs on the site for free.

21.Tuneshout

Tuneshout Discover independent artists you can’t find anywhere else, meet other listeners who share the same musical tastes as you, and participate in the popularity of TuneShout artists by writing reviews.

22.Dubroom

Dubroom carves out a very unique niche for itself specializing in reggae music, offering loads of free downloadable MP3s as well.

23.Mp3 4U

Mp3 4U is a website which scours the net to find the best free MP3s on the web and puts them up here.

24.Fatwreck

Fatwreck offers up selected tracks for downloads so you can sample all the punk rock you need. With more than 50 bands under their wings.

25.Classic Cat

Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 5000 free to download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work. everything from piano to classical guitar songs.

26.Electrobel

Electrobel  bringing together artists and fans, organizing music events, coordinating mutual help and promoting the independent music culture across Europe specializing in every thinkable electronic music genre.

27.Spinner.com

Spinner.com is a an AOL project which has a section dedicated to release one carefully screened MP3 every day.

28.FreeKidsMusic

FreeKidsMusic is a repository of free children’s music where you can download some amazing tracks for kids

29.FeelsLikeChristmas

FeelsLikeChristmas get Christmas songs, just amazing place When the holidays come.

Download Outpost Firewall Free 2009 Edition

Posted on June 11, 2009 by MidaComments Off

I’ve been using outpost since 3 years now, and i love it, its one of my favorite firewall, although it’s kind hard to use at the beginning ant it require lots of configuration, but once you get used to it, it will give you the power to control everything.

Few months ago Agnitum has released free edition of outpost firewall 2009, If you are looking for good Firewall application then here is your chance to grab Outpost Firewall 2009 edition for Free. This is the first time Agnitum has introduced Outpost Firewall Free successor of the acclaimed Outpost Firewall Pro.

you can find comparison in here which show difference between free and pro edition. But the question is do you really need firewall? firewall keep you computer safe from hackers, as well as  worms, spyware, malicious software ,but also firewall is must required application. There are so many good freeware antivirus software are available but very rare freeware firewall application can be found.

 

Features of Outpost Firewall 2009 Free Edition

1. Bidirectional firewall

2. Protection that can’t be shut down by hackers

3. Application behavior monitoring

4. Intuitive, resource-friendly operation

5. Activity monitoring capabilities

6. 64 Bit Compatibility

System requirements

Outpost Firewall Free is compatible with Windows Vista SP1, XP SP3, as well as all previous 32- and 64-bit versions from Windows 2000 onwards. The product will work smoothly on a 450 MHz or faster CPU (x86/x64/multi-core) with 256Mb RAM

 

Download Outpost Firewall Free here!

How To Recover Lost Wireless Network Keys (WEP/WPA) From Your Computer

Posted on June 11, 2009 by MidaComments Off

Did you ever forget your wireless network password? and you want to recover the keys of your wireless network, there is very simple way to recover the lost keys first you need to download this tool WirelessKeyView , then extract the zip and run the program.

This  free portable tool for Windows that allows you to instantly recover your lost wireless network keys. 

After you  run the program, it will list all the networks and their keys in a simple list view.

For every network WirelessKeyView shows the Key Type(WEP or WPA), Key(Hex), Key(Ascii), Adapter Name, and Adapter Guid.

How To Watch Thousands Of Free Video Lectures Online For Free

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Mida3 Comments

You never went to college?, no problem on the internet  you can learn almost about anything you want. there are thousands of free video lectures, that you can watch online for free.

Academic Earth is on of these great website where you will find thousands of video lectures from top scholars and universities from around the world. Academic Earth is an organization founded to provide everybody around the world with world class education.

You can either search for videos or browse the videos by subjects, universities, or instructors. You will also find top rated videos on the homepage along with featured courses and lectures.

 

When you choose the course you want you can view and study the whole course with complete lectures, exam papers and solutions.

You can also see the complete details of the video in the right sidebar such as, source, grade, length, etc.

 

 

Youtube Edu, another great site launched by youtube just few  months ago where you can watch thousand of free lectures from universities like ASU,stanforduniversity, MIT, and more.

You can also search for specific lectures you want or choose the university you want and then you will get list of available courses to choose from it.

How To Split Your Firefox Screen To Make Space For More Content

Posted on June 10, 2009 by adminComments Off

If you have large screen ie. larger than 19” you must have noticed that many websites used fixed width (800px) and there are two spaces on both left and right side, you can use this space to increase your productivity, so you can resize Firefox window and open another window or may be even another application ,but what if you want to split Firefox window so you can browse two website at the same time, that would be amazing, You can use Split Browser to do this its a free add-on for Firefox that splits your screen to make space for more content

 

What Split Browser actually do is splits the content area and not the whole browser, so you can open new tab in the same window so both site can be viewed in the same time.

 

Amazing isn’t it?, To split the current tab in new window, just right-click the tab, select ‘Split Tab To’ and then select the area where you would like to split.

 

 

With Split Browser  you can split the screen both vertically and horizontally, you can select how you want to view it by going to Split tab.

Split Browser has various useful options which help in customizing the add-on to your personal need. You can configure the General settings, Appearance, Combination options, and Menu.