Peel MP3 Blog Reader

The program Peel has become a vital part of my life. I originally got this program 3 years ago, and I have yet to get board with it. If you cant get it from the title, it basically reads blogs that host music and "peels" the songs right off of the blogs and organizes them in a program on your desktop. Peel comes it two versions, the free and the not free. I started off with the free version but soon realized that it was way too good of a program and ended up forking over the $15 dollars to buy it. I have never spend a better $15 dollars. In order to get the music you need to add blogs to the program for it to search. I always had a few MP3 blogs I would check every so often to check out new music, so I stared with a small list of about 5 blogs. After a few months I expanded my collection to be about 10. Unfortunately some blogs did die off or stopped working with Peel, but trust me there are plenty of blogs to choose from. The reason I am writing this post is because I recently found this great database of various MP3 sites organized by genre. Could not have asked for more. So now I pass on my knowledge of this database as well as my enjoyment for Peel, new music is just around the next page.

Peel (highly recommended) : http://www.getpeel.com/

Database: http://wiki.monkeyfilter.com/index.php?title=MP3_Blog_Listing

Prey Project

Open source software, hands down, is awesome. I've been a big fan of it ever since I found out about it, and the Prey Project is just another reason why I think it is so cool. The ability to take an idea and share it freely on the internet with anyone who is interested in your creation is a huge step in the right direction in my book. Open source software is also a great tool for direct feedback. Some one that does download and use your product is more than likely to give you criticism, both positive and negative, about how they use it and feel it can be improved.  My recent open source find is the Prey Project. It is a way to keep track of your laptop or phone, and get alerts about it if it goes missing or you want to know where you last left it. I have a MacBook and an iPhone, but I could only register my laptop because the iPhone platform is not yet available. I just may have to encourage the creator(s) of Prey to extend their creation to the iPhone. Check it out, if not for the program at least watch the 2 minute informational video.

http://preyproject.com/