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Great games for the musically minded

It doesn't matter whether you've classically trained at the Conservatorium or only sing in the shower, these games will bring out your inner songbird.

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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Reviews

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • HTC Touch Cruise (2009)

    Moving away from sleek iPhone lookalikes, the 2nd-gen Touch Cruise should find its market with road warriors who want the best of smartphones and GPS nav systems in one device.

  • BlueAnt X5 Stereo Bluetooth Headset

    A good value headset with comfort on its side, but not if you're an audiophile.

  • 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.

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Features

  • 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.

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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.

  • 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.

  • Wiimote hack improves real-life tennis game

    Mans Shapshak, an avid tennis player as well as a gear hacker, has come up with a novel way to combine fake tennis with real tennis to improve his real-world game using a hacked Wiimote.

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DIYs and How-to

  • 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 split audio tracks

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

  • How to record streaming audio

    Many online music sites prefer to stream songs rather than serving them up as downloadable files. Here's a free way to record the audio as MP3s.

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