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Download unlimited music to your phone via MusicStation Max handsets

omnifone musicstationThe UK's Omnifone will be the "first" company to offer unlimited, free music to all mobile handsets branded with the "MusicStation" name. LG will be the first to release a MusicStation Max phone, which will become available in the first half of 2008 to European and Asian-Pacific regions.

The new phone, announced at the World Mobile Congress, will likely include a touchscreen plus a pull-out keyboard (to hopefully compliment a decent amount of flash memory). What's unlimited music worth if you can't actually download it?

Omnifone's music selection includes about 1.6 million songs from the four major labels and other countless smaller record companies. Also, if you happen to snag one of these but happen to drop it in a pool, don't worry! Omnifone keeps a list of all the music you downloaded if you happen to damage your handset.

[via Engadget]

Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Internet, Web services, Adobe

Connect, Discover, and Inspire at the Adobe MAX Conference

Connect, Discover, and Inspire at the Adobe MAX Conference

Looking for a conference to polish your year off? If you are a regular user of Adobe products like Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator, the Adobe MAX event could be for you. But you have to empty your pockets first.

Adobe MAX is an event targeted at Adobe users that aims to connect them with other users, discover what can be done with the applications, and inspire others to create. The conference will being an opportunity to meet other users and grab some sneak peaks at what's coming out of Adobe next. There will be training on Adobe's products and solutions, and networking events. Speakers for the North America event include Grant Skinner, Mike Chambers and Erik Natzke.

MAX will be held in North America, Europe and in Japan, and cost a fortune. $1,295 US for general attendance, so make sure your company will spot you. Students, there is an educational discount, but its only $200 off. A one day pass can be purchased for $595, which is still rather pricey.
  • Chicago - September 30 to October 3 2007
  • Barcelona, Spain - October 15-18 2007
  • Tokyo, Japan - November 1-2

Filed under: Internet, Photo, Windows, Microsoft

MicrosoftMax

Microsoft MaxLooks like Redmond has the interns on xerox duty again. Microsoft has just announced MicrosoftMax, a codename project that looks to be taking on both Google and Apple. The main component of MicrosoftMax is a desktop news aggregator featuring MSN Filter with similar functionality to Google Homepage or NetVibes. A secondary piece of the software package is a photo organizer which looks to be a Microsoft version of iPhoto. Not much else is known about the package, including whether the final product will be free of charge or a pay-for add on.

One thing I find compelling about Max is the fact that it displays news items in a newspaper layout; something that other news readers have been trying to do successfully for a while now.

MicrosoftMax is available as a free beta download and requires Windows XP or MediaCenter with SP2 or higher.

[via Chris Messina]

Filed under: Photo, Windows, Microsoft

Video tour of Microsoft Max

Microsoft MaxI'm no great lover of Microsoft, but I will say that their Channel 9 blog always has something interesting, if a bit lengthy (where's the highlights reel, guys?), to watch. Yesterday they posted another video from Robert Scoble with the developers behind Microsoft's Codename Max, an interesting photo organizing/sharing app that we've reported on before. It's interesting to look over the developers' shoulders and hear them talk frankly about the product. A beta of Max can be downloaded from Microsoft (it got an update in December, including an improved installer if you had trouble the first time around), but requires Service Pack 2.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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