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Creative Sound Blaster Arena Surround
As an all-in-one sound system, the Arena Surround is a solid performer capable of engaging the user in a surround audio experience.
Best high-capacity MP3 players
Music hoarders rejoice! Here are a few picks of the top players for those large collections.
Reviews
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Nokia X6
Nokia has announced its next Comes with Music handset, and it looks to be the goods. Gone is the resistive touchscreens of its earlier models, plus it has a whopping 32GB of storage to keep your music on.
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Nokia 5230
Nokia looks set to flood the market with its growing touchscreen line-up across all the major segments, with the 5230 filling the budget model gap.
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Bang & Olufsen A8 Earphones
The original and still the best, the Bang & Olufsen A8 Earphones sound good and look great, but if you're looking for an exciting result these aren't for you.
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The Beatles: Rock Band
After a string of disappointing Guitar Hero franchises, Harmonix looks to reinvent the "band-based" rhythm game genre with The Beatles: Rock Band.
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Sony Ericsson W302 Walkman
The Sony Ericsson W302 Walkman delivers good sound quality in a neat design for a low price. For those who want a decent, inexpensive phone that plays music, it's a good choice, but don't bother with the poor camera and web browser.
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Apple iPod Shuffle (3rd generation)
The Apple iPod Shuffle (3rd generation) is not bad as a budget player, but it has too many limitations for us to recommend it.
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BlueAnt X5 Stereo Bluetooth Headset
A good value headset with comfort on its side, but not if you're an audiophile.
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Motorola EM330
It is yet another clamshell phone from yet another phone company. So what sets this mobile phone apart from the others? Not much.
Features
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Best portable mobile phone speakers
People love sharing their music when they are out and about. We check out the best portable speakers to use with your music-playing mobile phone.
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The top 10 songs the web brought back
Thanks to iTunes, YouTube, Guitar Hero and the like, it's possible for long-forgotten music to be revived in a big way — even if it had disappeared from the airwaves for a reason.
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Best MP3-playing mobile phones
Who wants to listen to train station or bus stop cacophony? If you want to take your music with you, then these nifty multimedia mobiles will do the trick.
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Australian music download services compared
If you're keen to boost your music collection without stepping away from the glow of your monitor, our quick guide to Australian download services will give you all the info you need.
News
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Creative's drastic price drop on unreleased MP3
The player hasn't even started shipping yet, but Creative has already dropped the price on its newest flagship, the Creative X-Fi2.
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Sydney movie, music pirate earns jail time
The Australian arms of the music and film industry have won a victory against piracy with the news that Sydney man Yong Hong Lin has been handed a three-month jail term for selling illegal imported discs from his Eastwood music and movie store.
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Broken record: Why labels want new album format
There's not enough margin in single downloads, so the music industry wants to find the next-gen album. Let's hope it won't force unwanted tracks on listeners.
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Warner Music Group and YouTube talking again
Six months after Warner Music's songs disappeared from YouTube, the two companies are trying to hash out their differences, sources say.
DIYs and How-to
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DIY home surveillance with a webcam
Too cheap to buy a real home security system? A webcam gets you part of the way there. We examine a few inexpensive ways to do it with an old computer and some home security software.
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Advanced iTunes: Get more from the software
Here's a collection of four tips for getting more out of the software — using multiple libraries on a single machine, the best uses for Smart Playlists, getting true CD-quality rips from your CD, and tips for getting perfect album art.
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TuneUp your iTunes music library
Does your iTunes library have lots of songs with missing tags and cover art? TuneUp Companion is a plug-in for iTunes that does all the tedious tagging and cover art retrieval work for you.
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How to split audio tracks
This tutorial can help you split music and audio books into shorter tracks for your convenient listening pleasure.
Downloads
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Altarsoft Player
Play audio files and listen to the radio.
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Midiocre
PC keyboard MIDI recording, playback and editing, No MIDI keyboard required. Featuring an XG Editor.
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Power Audio Editor
Record music or voice, edit with a set of effects, mix it with other audio parts.
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MP4 MP3 Converter
Convert MP4 to MP3, MP4 to WAV, and other popular audio formats.
The Explain Series
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Get (laptop) smart before you buy
Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
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Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.
Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
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Whereis® maps
If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.

























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