What is spotify?
You install a little program on your pc that looks a little bit like iTunes. But unlike iTunes the songs aren’t on your hard drive, they are online. You create playlists of albums or fave tunes and you can access them on your PC, iPod/iPhone/Android Mobile Device. For example, i have several playlists set up and i can either listen on my pc, or grab my ipod and listen on that or if i’m out and i only have my phone on me, i can listen on there too. Any changes you make on one device will affect the others. Very clever!

Oh and although this massive library is online, you can actually download the tunes to your pc/ipod/phone in case you’re out of range of wifi or don’t want to eat up your mobile data plan. What you can’t do is have mp3 files that you can burn to a CD, not unless you buy the song. You can listen to radio and share friends playlists too.

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Well, i finally made a decision and upgraded my phone. I couldn’t decide between a Blackberry Storm, an iPhone or HTC Hero. I was initially drawn to Blackberry Storm because i have a Blackberry Bold which is the best phone i’ve ever owned. I’ve never had a phone with such a strong signal and clear calls.

I decided against iPhone because i couldn’t get on with the keyboard (i was practising on my iPod touch) and *oo controversy* i actually think it’s starting to look a little dated! I have a feeling they will give it a cosmetic makeover though next year.

Anyhoo, what i ended up with was this, a HTC Hero!

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I ordered a Kindle as soon as it was announced that us UK peeps would be getting one and yesterday it finally turned up from USA. Hoorah!

Now i’ve only had a quick play because i’m putting it up for Christmas for my prezzie. Anyway, very impressed! I bought an ebook (Coraline) from Amazon last night and it beamed it straight to my kindle. I’ve also got a collection of eBooks on my computer that i’ve sent to it and all seem to be displaying just fine. I’m fast running out of room for my book collection so this should hopefully be ideal. The screen is very easy on the eye as it sin’t backlit like a compute screen, it really does look like you’re reading paper.

Some would argue, why would you want to carry around hundreds of books? Same reason you carry around thousands of songs on your iPod, so you have you’re whole collection with you because you can’t predict what you might be in the mood for reading/listening to in the future. Plus i sometimes like to read more than one novel at the same time.

You can even have your newspaper sent to your Kindle every morning and i believe some magazines too. I don’t think the UK version can read blogs unlike the US version yet but i’m sure it will only be a matter of time.

If you have any ebooks that need converting to a Kindle friendly format then i’d strongly recommend using Mobipocket creator. It’s free and very quick and simple to use. You can find free books at:

http://www.planetebook.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org
http://thekindlewarehouse.com/free-kindle-ebooks/

If like me you’re a book lover but you’re running out of shelf space then this could be just the thing!

Did you know you can do things with twitter other than tweet what you’re up to? It’s extremely useful. For example, Say we were all on twitter and connected to eachother and i had a file i wanted to share with you (mp3 or whatever). You can send files privately to your pals using FileTwt.

You can play games on twitter such as @trivia. Wait for questions to be sent to you, tweet the answer and you could win prizes.

Heard a great song that you want your pals to hear? Well go to http://Songza.fm and find the song, click share and bam, it’s on your twitter for all to hear. (also see 10 ways to share music on twitter: http://mashable.com/2009/05/29/twitter-music/)

You can share images in the same way by either using TwitPic (which you automatically become registred to when you get twitter) or if you already have flickr it can automatically beam pics to twitter.

You can share videos with TwitVid and Tweetube (as well as send fave youtubes directly to twitter).

You can even sell stuff with Twitter using TwitPay. The possibilities are endless and i reckon it will keep on expanding. It’s a good thing it’s so versatile because who knows how long the status update fad will last. Hello my name is Andy and i’m a twitterhollic.

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This is the new Michael Jackson song (This is It) and you know it’s not half bad! Very Jackson 5ish, i’m really quite (pleasantly) surprised, it’s much better than i thought it would be. What a damn shame he’s not here to perform it :-(  Click read more to play the tune …
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