Free, Legal Music Online

Written by Daniel Punch


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The great thing about smaller bands is that you can often find bands that come from your local area and then go and see them play live. Being able to see a favourite band live more than once a year (or lifetime) without expending huge amounts of money and time is pretty cool. Many music search engines will let you search for bands of a particular genre in a particular area, which makes it all quite easy.

A fairly major contributor torepparttar online music scene isrepparttar 118497 remixer. These people take other tunes and redo them, often in a techno style because one person can do this competently. Chief amongrepparttar 118498 tunes selected to be remixed are those old ditties that used to play throughrepparttar 118499 simplest of sound chips on now aging consoles:repparttar 118500 video game theme songs. People now go and grabrepparttar 118501 main tune line from an old favourite and fill it out, making realrepparttar 118502 work our imaginations used to do for us to turnrepparttar 118503 single tone melodies into orchestral masterpieces. A few good places to start are http://remix.kwed.org and http://remix.overclocked.org as well as a personal favourite band http://machinaesupremacy.com

I hope this has given you something to think about. It's not hard to come across illegal MP3 rips, in fact it's often hard to avoid them, but if you giverepparttar 118504 free music scene a look you may find something completely different and new that will really do it for you. With web hosts already being penalized hugely for illegal content being stored on their servers (having an entire server taken down because of one inconsiderate user is damaging and irritating beyond belief) and moves being made to charge ISPs forrepparttar 118505 content being accessed by their users, it makes more sense than ever to get out there and grab yourself an awesomely original and completely legal music collection.

Daniel Punch M6.Net Web Hosting http://www.m6.net Daniel Punch is a University student gathering a large music collection to keep himself going during those long nights of 'study' (also known as 'playing video games')


Pop-Up Blockers: Before you decide to fight ads you better know what you’re up against!

Written by Anti Spam League


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There are a number of ad-blocking software alternatives available inrepparttar market today, both free and paid for. Amongrepparttar 118496 free software that was tested and has proved to be fairly effective are 12Ghosts Popup-Killer and 12Ghosts StopMessengerAds. Also, shareware such as STOPzilla!, ABF Internet Explorer Tools, AdBeGone PopUp Killer and CoffeeCup PopUp Blocker have received some good critiques. Free pop-up blockers, such as STOPzilla and Panicware, are readily available for download. Bothrepparttar 118497 Google and Yahoo toolbars includerepparttar 118498 ability to block pop-ups. That capacity is also enabled by default in Microsoft's XP Service Pack Two (SP2) settings for Internet Explorer. Most ad-blocking programs work as specialized proxy servers. Once running on your PC, they examinerepparttar 118499 addresses that your browser requests, check each one againstrepparttar 118500 entries in a frequently updated database of ad server addresses, and then drop requests for ad content. Some also rely on pattern matching to look for windows and images that match known sizes and shapes of ads. Leaving inconvenience aside, there are other good reasons to fight back. For example, blocking ads frees up precious bandwidth and can protect your privacy. Ads take time to load, and they invariably get inrepparttar 118501 way of what you are really interested in while surfing onrepparttar 118502 Internet. Because many ad servers place cookies on your computer, ad companies are able to track your surfing. These companies claim thatrepparttar 118503 function of most cookies they set is to regulaterepparttar 118504 type and amount of advertisements you receive. But becauserepparttar 118505 larger ad services span a wide array of web sites, ad-related cookies can also provide ad companies a lot of insight into your web surfing preferences. And this is a critical issue since you, as most of us consumers, have never explicitly consented to be followed onrepparttar 118506 web. If you want to learn more about your privacy rights, visitrepparttar 118507 www.Anti-Spam-League.org website. This organization has a lot of valuable information on privacy, spam, identity theft and other common Internet abuses. Become a free member by visiting www.Anti-Spam-League.org. Finally, there isrepparttar 118508 debate regarding whether using ad-supported web sites is givingrepparttar 118509 implicit obligation to tolerate and support online ads. Logically, advertisers think thatrepparttar 118510 implicit contract seems to be acceptable to most users and web sites because without advertisements,repparttar 118511 Internet as we know it would vanish really fast. However,repparttar 118512 consumers think differently. Inrepparttar 118513 end, people have a right to control what appears on their computer.

Advertisers use these intrusive techniques simply because they are effective. Sad but true. Some ofrepparttar 118514 most intrusive ads haverepparttar 118515 unfortunate effect of quickly catching customers’ attention and as a result, pop-up blocking software is getting more and more popular these days. Even Microsoft announced inrepparttar 118516 end of 2003 thatrepparttar 118517 new Internet Explorer will include popup ad blocker. Naturally, it is foreseeable that popup advertisers are likely to start developing software to bypass it. In April of 2004 Falk eSolutions AG, a global provider of ad delivery and management solutions, launched a new ad targeting option to automatically detect pop-up blocker software on users’ computers and instantly convert pop-up and pop-under inventory to alternate formats for optimal delivery to those users. Our belief is that as new popup-blocking software comes out, more aggressive pop-up display methods are likely to emerge to bypassrepparttar 118518 defense. As a final thought, no anti-ad utility works flawlessly; but without ads, you would not be annoyed so frequently with undesired commercial messages, and pages would definitely load faster!

If you want to learn more about this and other related topics, check out www.Anti-Spam-League.org. This organization offers free membership andrepparttar 118519 chance to access a wide amount of relevant information on privacy, spam, email abuse, Internet fraud, responsible marketing and several other topics.



The purpose of the Anti SPAM League is to help consumers and business owners reduce the amount of SPAM they receive. In addition, our Anti SPAM organization believes that educating site owners in the area of SPAM prevention and ways to successfully and responsibly market their sites, is key in making a difference.


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