Sound Hound App for iPhone and iPod Touch

If you’ve ever heard a song on the radio and weren’t sure what it was called or which artist created it, perhaps you should try using Sound Hound, which is an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the iPad.

Sound Hound is an application that allows you to identify songs by letting the application listen to the song that you would like to identify, as well as by singing or humming the song. With Sound Hound, you can also view the lyrics to the song that you identified in the application.

If you would like to ID a song, you simply launch the Sound Hound application and click on the large orange button that says “Tap here”. Sound Hound will then listen to the song and after a few seconds, will provide you with the name of the song, as well as the name of the band who sings the song, and the album from which the song is from.

You will also have the options to bookmark and share the song, as well as buy it from iTunes. Sound Hound will also provide you with the song’s lyrics, which you can view right in the application.

Sound Hound also provides you with the option to view YouTube videos of the song, connect to Pandora, view similar artists, as well as see the songs album appearances.

Also, when you launch Sound Hound, there is a button that says “Title or Artist”, which allows you to say the name of a song or artist and will then provide you with a list of songs or information and songs by the artist you said.

Sound Hound also allows you to keep track of your song identification history, as well as view what songs are the “Hottest” songs, which songs are “Underplayed”, and which songs were “Just found by users”.

Another feature of Sound Hound is that you can tap on the “Now Playing” button and you can play songs that are in your iTunes Library, as well as provide you with the lyrics of the song, as well as information about the song.

The free version of Sound Hound allows you to identify 5 songs per month and is ad-supported. Sound Hound also has an unlimited version, which allows you to identify an unlimited number of songs and does not display advertisements in the application. However, the Unlimited version of Sound Hound costs $4.99.

If you would like to try using Sound Hound, you can download it for free from the iTunes App Store.

Google to Stop Selling Nexus One Online

You’ve probably heard of Google’s Nexus One phone, which was launched in January and runs Google’s Android operating system.

If you wanted to purchase a Nexus One, one way to do so would be to purchase it from Google’s online phone store.

However, Google has announced today on its official blog that they will be making changes to the way they sell their Nexus One phone, which are that they will be trying to offer the phone through existing retail channels, like they do in Europe.

Once Google has increased the availability of Nexus One phones in retail stores, the online store will cease to sell the phone, but rather will use the online store as an outlet to showcase different Android phones which are available globally.

If you would like to learn more about this change, you can do so on the Official Google Blog.

Opera Mini Web Browser

As you may have heard, Apple approved the Opera Mini web browser to be allowed into the App Store. If you’re curious about the application, hopefully this post will help you learn more.

When you first launch Opera Mini, you will see a welcome screen, giving you information about the browser.

Start Page

Once you’ve tapped on the “OK” button, you will be taken to a Start Page that has five websites shown in a thumbnail view, which are the My Opera website, FaceBook, Twitter, The New York Times, and AccuWeather. If you tap and hold on one of the thumbnails, you can either clear it or edit the website that you would like to appear in the thumbnail. There are also four empty thumbnails, which you can add websites to. If you tap on a thumbnail, you will be taken to the website associated with it.

Visiting a Website

When you visit a website, whether it be a website who’s URL you’ve entered or a website from the Start Page, the name of the website you’re on will appear in a red information bar, toward the top of the browser. Also, there is an address bar, as well as a search engine that you can use. The search box has options to use either Google, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, as well as the option to manage the search engines.

At the bottom of the browser, you should see five buttons, a back arrow, a forward arrow, a refresh button, a tabs button, and the settings button.

Tabbed Browsing

The tabs button allows you to switch between multiple websites without having to leave the website you’re on. You can simply switch between websites that are loaded in tabs.

When you would like to open a website in a new tab, you can simply click on the tabs button and click on the thumbnail with a plus on it. Once you’ve done that, you can either choose from a website on your Start Page or enter in a URL to a different website. The tabs button also shows you how many tabs you have opened by displaying a number on the button.

If you would like to close a tab, you can do so by clicking on the tabs button and clicking on the red button with an “X” on it.

Settings

If you would like to view and change Opera’s settings, you can do so by clicking on the wrench button, which is located in the bottom right of the browser.

Once you’ve clicked on the wrench button, you can view and manage your bookmarks, history, Start Page, as well as Saved Pages. There is a also a “Find in Page” button, which allows you to search for text in a webpage. Also, there is a “Help” button and a “Settings” button.

If you click on the “Settings” button, you will be able to manage different settings, such as whether or not to load images, what the image quality is, and how big the font is. You can also select whether or not you would like to enable “Mobile View”, “Fullscreen”, as well as “Opera Link”.

From the settings menu, you can also view and manage your privacy settings, such as whether or not to remember passwords or accept cookies. You can also clear your history, passwords, and cookies from the “Privacy” section.

The last thing in the settings menu is the “Advanced” section, which allows you to choose which type of browsing protocol you would like to use, as well as to start page links.

If you would like to learn more about Opera Mini, you can do so by going to the Opera website.

Opera Mini can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App Store.

HP to Acquire Palm, Inc.

If you haven’t already heard, Hewlett Packard has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Smart Phone manufacturer, Palm, for a price of $1.2 Billion, which was announced by the two companies this afternoon.

Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Palm stockholders will receive $5.70 for each share of stock that they are holding at the end of the merger between the two companies.

Palm’s current CEO and chairman is also expected to stay with the company after the merger, which is expected to happen at the end of July, 2010.

More information about this merger can be found on HP’s website, as well as on Palm’s website.

Google Buzz Buttons

Google Buzz is a relatively new service from Google that allows users to share information in similar ways to services, such as Twitter.

With Google Buzz’s popularity growing and there not being an official Google Buzz button that users can use to share information, Google Buzz created an official button that users can now use to share information on a variety of websites.

Some of the websites that you may see this button on include: YouTube, MySpace, GigaOm, Mashable, Meebo, as well as more websites and services.

If you would like to add a Google Buzz button to your own website, you can do so by going to Google Buzz’s “Stuff” webpage and and then copy and paste the code into your website.

There is an official blog post on the GMail blog about the Google Buzz button.

Yahoo! Answers

If you’re someone who likes answering questions that people may have, on a variety of different topics or if you have a question that you would like to know the answer to, perhaps you should try using Yahoo! Answers.

Yahoo! Answers is a service from Yahoo! that allows you to ask and answer questions on a variety of different topics, such as Arts & Humanities, Beauty & Style, Business & Finance, Cars & Transportation, Computers & Internet, Consumer Electronics, as well as a variety of other topics.

If you would like to ask a question, you should go to the Yahoo! Answers website, click on “Ask” or begin typing your question and then click on “Continue”. From there, you should be able to enter in your question, as well as enter in any details that you would like to provide to help someone answer your question. After you’ve done that, you should be able to choose a category that you would like your question to be in, as well as a subcategory.

Once you’ve posted your question, people will be able to answer it. After people have answered your question, you can choose a “Best Answer”, which will award the answerer 10 points.

If you would like to answer questions on Yahoo! Answers, you should go to the Yahoo! Answers website and then you should be able to answer questions that appear on the front page of the website or you can chose a category to answer questions from. However, in order to ask or answers questions on Yahoo! Answers, you need to have a Yahoo! Account, which are free to sign up for.

If you would like to try using Yahoo! Answers, you can do so from the Yahoo! Answers website.

Securing Your Wireless Connection

If you have a wireless network setup in your home or office and don’t want people to use it who don’t have permission, perhaps you should consider encrypting your connection.

When you encrypt your wireless connection, any data that you send over your network can’t be viewed by third parties, unless they know the decryption key.

There are different types of encryption that you can use, such as WEP, WEP + 802.1x, WPA, WPA2, as well as other types of encryption. Which type of encryption your router has may depend on your router’s manufacturer, as well as your router’s software.

If you would like to change your router’s security settings, you may be able to do so by going to 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 in a browser and then entering in your username and password.

If you don’t know what your username and password are, perhaps you should try using “admin” for the username and “password” for the password or “admin” for the username and “admin” for the password. (You should also change your router’s username and password from the default to prevent people from accessing your router’s settings.)

Once you’ve logged into your router, you should look for a security section or something similar to that, where you should be able to change your security settings.

When you select a type of encryption, you should enter an encryption key, which is a like a password that enables you to access your wireless network and Internet connection from your router. Your encryption key should be a combination of lower and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols, in order to make it hard to guess.

After you’ve selected your encryption type and chose a password, you should save your settings and then log out of your router.

In order to access your wireless network and the Internet again, you may have to enter your encryption key, but you may be able to save the settings so that you only have to enter it once.

Hopefully after reading this, your wireless network is secure and you can use your network and Internet connection without having to worry if someone else is using it!

Google Chrome

If you’re a computer user, you’ve probably heard of Google Chrome, which is a free web browser that was created by Google.

Google Chrome is a free, open source, web browser that was released as a beta version on September 2, 2008.

Google Chrome includes features, such as sandboxed tabbed browsing, which means that if one tab crashes, you can still browse the Internet using other tabs. The tabs in Chrome are also above the address browser, unlike in other browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla FireFox, which all have tabs under the address bar.

When you launch Google Chrome, rather than seeing a homepage, you should see a window that has screen shots of the websites that you have recently visited. If you click on one of the websites, you will be taken to it. You should also see a list of websites that you recently bookmarked, as well as a list of recently closed tabs. Also, you should be see a search box, which enables you to search your history.

Another feature of Google Chrome is the ability to use a private browsing mode, called Incognito Mode. If you use Incognito Mode, Chrome will not save the history of the websites you visited, as well as cookies from those websites.

Google Chrome also allows you to add extensions to the browser, which you can choose from an extensions library. Chrome also has the ability to change the browser’s theme.

If you would like to try using Google Chrome, you can download it from the Google Chrome website.

Personas

If you’re a Mozilla FireFox user and would like to give your browser a new look, perhaps you should try using Personas.

Personas enables you to change FireFox’s theme from the default theme to a variety of different themes, which you can find on the Personas website.

If you have the latest version of Mozilla FireFox, all you need to do to preview a Persona, is hover over it and you will be able to see what it would look like in FireFox. Once you have found a Persona that you like, all you need to do to set it as your Persona is click on it.

On the Personas website, you can see which Personas are the most popular, as well as other things, such as Personas that were recently added, and more.

You can also create your own Persona from the instructions available on the Personas website.

If you would like to try changing your Persona in Mozilla FireFox, you can do so by going to the Personas website.

iGraveDigger

If you’re looking for a fun game to play for the iPod Touch or iPhone, perhaps you should try playing iGraveDigger.

iGraveDigger is a game where you have to defend a house against monsters that are coming toward it. To stop the monsters from getting to the house, you need to dig holes to bury them in.

Some monsters require deeper holes to be buried, or else they’ll just walk out of the hole and continue toward the house. However, some monsters only require a small hole in order to be stopped, after which you can fill the hole in, burying the monster.

When you launch iGraveDigger, you should see a loading screen and then a menu, which has two options, “Buy Premium” or “Play Free”.

After choosing “Play Free”, you should see another menu, which has three buttons, a “New game” button, an “Options”, and  a “Scores” button.

After tapping on the “New Game” button, a screen displaying the game’s instructions will come up.

To play the game, all you need to do is slide your finger down in order to dig a hole and slide your finger up to bury a monster once it has fallen into the hole that you’ve dug. The more times you slide your finger down, the deeper the hole will be. The maximum size of a hole is three “slides” down.

If you would like to try playing iGraveDigger, you can do so by downloading it from the iTunes App Store for free.