Tags: drive, music, nano

Wipe your hard drive clean

Get out your virtual scrub brush and let's get busy.

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.

Fake iPod Nano (4th generation)

If it wasn't for the glitchy software and sub-standard battery life, the fake iPod Nano might have been almost as good as the real thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Asus SDRW-08D1S-U External DVD-RW Drive

External DVD writers are never going to be exciting, but at least Asus' effort looks pretty.
Tata Nano

One windscreen wiper, one rear-view mirror, self-levelling headlights, and no rear hatch are part of the final Indian specs of the world's cheapest car.
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.

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.
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.
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.
Mother's Day gift guide

Give your mum the gift of tech. We've rounded up gadgets that will make her life better well beyond Mother's Day: cameras, mobile phones, laptops and MP3 players.

New iPod Touch G3 and Nano G5: The case is in for Apple

Thought about staying up until the wee hours of the morning to get the information on the new iPod? No need - the new iPods have been leaked.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
How to use Spoken Menus on your 4G iPod Nano

We go step-by-step through the process of activating the latest iPod Nano's spoken menus and tweaking them to your taste.
How to split audio tracks

This tutorial can help you split music and audio books into shorter tracks for your convenient listening pleasure.

FrostWire

Share files on Gnutella and Bittorrent network.
EJukebox

Organize, and play your music in a jukebox with automatic cover art and related internet videos.
Soundbase

Organize and manage your sound files.
Firefox Portable

Take your bookmarks everywhere with Firefox.

Whereis® maps

If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.
Commonwealth Bank Mobile Banking

Bank anywhere, anytime. Learn more.
Nokia Navigation

The introduction of GPS adds a new dimension of 'social navigation'.