Top 10 Websites to Download your Music legally for Free

If you’re a big fan of downloading tracks from the internet then check out the following websites that will provide you free downloads for your favorite song.

1. Jamendo

Jamendo is your one stop to unlimited and legal downloads. You can find music by artist’s name, song name or album name.  Currently there are 12541 published albums along with 67398 album reviews and around 417100 members.  Join Now

2.  Artist Server

Artist Server has the tools and services to help you promote, distribute and track your music online. You can even have your own blog, radio station, favorites list, Website friends list and more.

3. GarageBand

GarageBand covers a wide range of genres and offers a large number of tunes for download. The majority of artists will be unknown to most people, due to the nature of the site, but the review and rating system makes it easy to pinpoint and listen to the most popular tracks.

4.  Live Music Archive

Live music archive contains a  large collection of live recordings from a wide range of artists. Please note that the site runs a policy which does not adhere to any particular set of laws, and states so in its Terms and Conditions, and makes the user responsible for making sure that the content is legal in their own country.

5.Epitonic

Epitonic also has a large number of online radio stations based on several genres and subgenres that are worth a listen. The site is a little confusing at first, but once you work out where the genre and artist lists are, its fairly simple from there

6.  Download.com

I’m pretty sure we are all familiar with Download.com already. The music is generally from unknown and unsigned artists, but the range and quantity of material here is staggering. Currently it’s offering more than 80,000 free MP3s!

7. Freemp3Mail

FreeMp3Mail is a Free legal download system in which the user creates an account by giving the site an email address and a password. It is a great source for free music downloads. The best part about it is that all of the music is 100% legal and yours to keep.

8.  AltSonunds

AltSounds is an  alternative online music community. It gives listeners a place to find the best new music available in an environment that works for them and with them. Like the sites I’ve mentioned above it also offers free legal streaming and downloads.

9.  SoundClick

Soundclick is one of my personal favorite websites. I’ve been using it for a long long time now. Not only you get to download your favorite track but there are so many versions available for most of these songs created by other users. You can even buy or sell music there.

10.  Amazon

Last but not the least Amazon is one of the biggest websites out there that offers free music downloads for it’s users. The popular one-stop-shop has a small selection of tracks available for download for free. These are changed regularly, but are often by known artists.

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Indian author Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008

Aravind Adiga poses for photographers after winning the Man Booker Prize 2008 in London. (Reuters Photo)

India's first time novelist Aravind Adiga on Wednesday won the 50,000 pounds ($87,000) Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel, The White Tiger. (Watch ) 

Young Indian writer Aravind Adiga is one of the two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker's shortlist of six. The other is Australia's Steve Toltz. 

Only two other debut novelists have achieved this in the past - D B C Pierre in 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little and India's Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things . 

33-year-old Adiga, who wanted to be a novelist since he was a boy, was born in Chennai and now lives in Mumbai. 

The White Tiger is a "compelling, angry and darkly humorous" novel about a man's journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by reviewers as an "unadorned portrait" of Indian scene "from the bottom of the heap". 

Adiga is the fourth Indian born-author to win the prize, joining compatriots Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai who won the prize in 1981, 1997 and 2006 respectively. 

A fifth winner, V S Naipaul is of Indian ancestry. Adiga's The White Tiger is the ninth winning novel to take its inspiration from India or Indian identity. 

Today's win is a first for publisher Atlantic; although they had books shortlisted for the prize in 2003 with The Good Doctor by Damon Gaigut and in 2004 withBitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor. 

Peter Clarke, Chief Executive of Man Group PLC, presented a cheque of 50,000 pounds to Adiga at a gala dinner in the Guildhall here. 

Michael Portillo, Chair of the judges, said "The judges found the decision difficult because the shortlist contained such strong candidates. In the end, The White Tiger prevailed because the judges felt that it shocked and entertained in equal manner. 

"The novel undertakes the extraordinarily difficult task of gaining and holding the reader's sympathy...dealing with pressing social issues and significant global developments with astonishing humour." 

Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, receives 2,500 pounds (USD 4,357) and a designer-bound edition of their book. 

The judging panel for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comprised: former MP and Cabinet minister Michael Portillo, editor of Granta Alex Clark; novelists Louise Doughty, founder of Ottakar's bookshops James Heneage and Hardeep Singh Kohli, a TV and radio broadcaster. 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Aravind_Adiga_wins_Man_Booker_Prize_for_White_Tiger/articleshow/3596800.cms

27 Reasons to Visit Spain

Practicing your Spanish is a great reason for visiting Spain, but who wants to do that?
Oh, that’s right, you do and I do.
But in addition to that, there are other great reasons. I’ll let the following pictures take the place of about 27,000 words.

1

They really light up the Agbar Tower at Glòries in Barcelona.

2

The entrance to Gaudi’s Güell Park in Barcelona, looks like an enchanted place. This is one of about 70 municipal parks in the city.

3

If you’re tired of the parks, take a stroll on Barcelona’s beaches.

4

You might also like the beaches of Cádiz.

5

The Aran Valley in Catalonia looks like a really inviting place.

6

The Mosque or Mezquita in Córdoba has some really colorful pillars and arches.

7

You get to fly into one of the most colorful airports I’ve seen. This is the Barajas International in Madrid.

8

La Peñalara is the highest peak in the mountain chain Sierra de Guadarrama.

9

The Metrópolis building, on Gran Vía.

10

The Puerta Alcalá at the entrance to a park called El Retiro.

11

The Alcazaba, an 8th centruy Moorish fortification stands over a Roman theater in Málaga.

12

The Castillo Gibralfaro, on a hill next to the Alcazaba in Málaga.

13

The harbor at Málaga.

14

A Roman theater in Mérida.

15

The Pyrenees.

16

Roman aqueduct in Segovia.

17

The Puente Alamillo in Sevilla.

18

The Romans sure built a lot of aqueducts and theaters in the Iberian Peninsula. This one’s in Sevilla.

19

City Hall behind a fountain in Valencia.

20

This rounded glass building known as L’Hemisfèric is an Imax theater, Planetarium and Laserium in the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias in Valencia.

21

La Lonja de la seda, known affectionatly as La Lonja, was built as an oil market and was later used as a silk exchange.

22

A typical narrow street in the old part of town, Valencia.

23

The Aljafería, an 11th century Moorish palace and castle in Zaragoza.

24

La Puerta del Carmen, Zaragoza. Wouldn’t it be interesting to drive down a modern thoroughfare and drive by this?

25

The River Ebro running through Zaragoza. Looks like the setting for a Harry Potter book.

26

A snowy afternoon at Pilar’s square, Zaragoza.

27

Plaza de las catedrales, in Zaragoza.
Picture credit goes to Wikipedia and the volunteers who create it. You can find these pictures by starting at the article about Spain and following links to other articles.

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Free group SMSes from Google soon

After SMS-based search, Google Labs in India has launched Google SMS channel – a platform to send free group SMS. Currently, in a pilot phase, Google is testing the product in India and intends to launch it to global audiences later. It supports English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada languages. No commercial date for the launch has been announced.
The SMS channel was fully conceptualised by Google India Labs. Prasad Ram, head (R&D), Google India, says, “The SMS channel is in line with our endeavour to connect the 250-million mobile subscribers who have no access to information.”
Unlike other group SMS providers, Google’s SMS channel does not add any advertisement on the message footer, so group publishers get full 160 character messages to post. But Prasad is not ruling out monetary opportunity from embedded advertisements during the commercial launch. “Banner advertisement and contextual marketing can be among many ways to monetise this channel.”
At present, Google allows publishers to create individual channels and publish content that other users can subscribe to after registering with valid mobile numbers. Google expects non-governmental organisations (NGOs), corporates and schools among others to create groups over SMS for communication and regular updates.
Ram says, “Google foresees a large uptake for similar mobile services and will continue to work from our India labs to deliver such products for both international and domestic markets.”
As of now, one can subscribe to a maximum of 30 channels and by default receive a maximum of 10 SMSes per day, which can be changed later. Subscribers can even define the time slot for receiving SMS. A content publisher doesn’t need a mobile phone to send an SMS to his group as there’s an option in Google SMS channel that lets him compose and send SMS via the web itself.
The Google service looks like an improved version of existing group messaging services such as Zook, SMSgupshup and Mytoday. Zook had recently announced an alert service that enables users to track local shopping deals or movie and content updates such as events, weather, traffic, cricket news among others. Google’s SMS channel can work great for publishers as they get a dedicated marketing hook to keep users engaged, which none of the other services offer. For instance, a neighbourhood bookstore on SMS channel can inform subscribers about new titles and special offers.

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