Wolfram Tones

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What is the Wolfram Tones Application

I’m a big music fan. I’ve managed to max out my mp3 player and about 75% of my hard drive is music. I also relish every chance I get to make my own music and was very eager to play around with what the Wolfram Tones application had to offer.

I installed the application but had an initial problem playing some of the music. Luckily there was an easy to follow guide to set up Quicktime (which is a requirement to use Wolfram) to play MIDI files.

I don’t quite understand the science behind how the compositions work, but everything is based off on “scientific paradigm of Stephen Wolfram’s New Kind of Science, Wolfram Tones instantly generates unique, organic musical compositions based on algorithms called cellular automata. ”

It’s not hard to mess around and make your own music. I didn’t understand the rule or seed variations (instructions are provided), but basically they are template. I moved onto the instrumentation tab where I could select what instruments to include, and then onto pitch and timing.

After you have created a suitable song, you can save it to your online jukebox to share with others, or you can download it as a MIDI file onto your desktop that can be converted into an mp3 or WAV file that can be played on MP3 players.

Pros

• lots of variation
• ability to save your work
• lots of fun

Cons

• got a horrible screeching sound when ever I’d change instruments. It seemed like every time the project I was working on was reset it made this sound like a record being scratched.

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inTune Facebook Application

What is the inTune Facebook Application?

inTune is a full blow, desktop like music player built for the Facebook platform. The first thing that will catch your attention with this is app is its design. The player is very clean and simple looking, reminiscent of the iTune player. You’ll need FlashPlayer in order to use inTune on account of its super slick design.

inTune isn’t just a pretty looking app. This piece of Facebook eye candy packs a powerful punch of musical social networking. inTune allows you to see what the most popular music is among Facebook users, your Networks, or just your friends. This allows you to discover new artists from people who have similar tastes as you. In addition, inTunes helps you discover new music by suggesting related artists or songs based on the songs you are currently playing in inTunes.

What makes inTune even more impressive is its super huge collection of songs. You can run a search through the inTunes player for artists or songs. I didn’t have any trouble finding the groups that I was looking for.

Finally, inTune lets your Facebook friends know who your favorite artists are by creating a slick looking collage of album art of your most played artists.

inTunes Pros

• Super slick design. This has be to the prettiest app design I’ve seen.
• Leverages Facebook’s social network to the max. Find out what other people on Facebook are listening to and discover new music.
• Suggests new artists based on your tastes.
• Huge music collection. The library has thousands upon thousands of songs. Very impressive.

inTune Cons

• I couldn’t find any in this app. Very well done.

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Think Free Docs Facebook Applications

Think Free lets you upload your original documents and share them with other Facebook users. You can also share your docs with the Think Free Community on the web.

Think Free Pros

• Easily share documents with others
• Upload is easy
• Nicely integrated into Facebook

Think Free Cons

• You have to be registered with Think Free to use it. Signing up off site for applications is always a pain
• Not very original. There are several other Doc sharing applications. I couldn’t find anything that distinguished Think Free from the others.

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Docs Facebook Application

What is the Docs Facebook Application?

Docs lets you easily share doc files with Facebook users. Your uploaded files are only visible to Facebook users who go to your school. The idea is to share notes and other school work with others. Say you need notes for your philosophy test, just search docs to see if anyone has uploaded notes from your teacher. People are also using it to share essays and research papers. I’d suggest not using docs for plagiarism. It will probably bite you in the butt later on.

Docs Pros

• Over 50,000 docs have been uploaded
• Nice search feature
• Easy to upload

Docs Cons

• Easy for students to plagiarize.
• Some bug problems. Sometime docs won’t open up

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JiwaMusic Facebook Application

What is the JiwaMusic Facebook application?

JiwaMusic is a database of songs that you can search and add to your profile to share with other. They claim to have over 300,000 songs in their database and so far I’ve had no trouble finding any of my favourites. Many different genres are included as well and a user can find anything from Mozart to Moby. The search is a little rusty, however, as results can only be organized by artist and must be browsed one page at a time, rather then allowing the user to jump to any page they wish. This made finding songs by the band ‘X’ quite difficult. The major problem with this app is the amount of space it takes on your profile. Every song you add appears and takes up about a centimeter and a half (quarter inch) of profile space, and there is no option to limit the number of songs that appear in your profile. JiwaMusic is still in beta.

JiwaMusic Pros

• Huge database
• All kinds of music

JiwaMusic Cons

• Takes up a LOT of profile space
• Cannot fast-forward or rewind songs
• Difficult to search

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Files Facebook App

What is the Files Facebook App?

The Files app allows you to upload files to your Facebook profile using the files app. Box.net hosts all the files for you for free. In addition, you can see what your friends have uploaded to Box. You can also share files with the Box app as well. You’ll have to start an account with Box.net in order to use this app.

Files App Pros

• Free file storage up to 1GB
• Easily share files with friends

Files App Cons

• The app takes up a lot of space on your profile. But you can put it at the bottom of your profile page if you think it’s getting in the way.
• It would be nice if they allowed searching and tagging of files uploaded through the app.

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Audio Facebook Application

What is the Audio Facebook Application?

The Audio Facebook application was developed by Numair Faraz. This app allows you to upload music and share it with others on your Facebook profile. The best part of this app is that you add songs that other people have added to their list to your own list. In short, Audio is a file sharing tool. The developer has posted a message saying that all this is legal, but I’m kind of suspicious. With Audio, I can get all the free music that I want. I guess what makes this legal is that you can’t listen to the music outside of Facebook. However, I’m sure there’s someone who had developed a piece of software that allows theme to rip music off of the Audio application.

Audio Pros

• A very simple and efficient music share app
• Easily upload music
• Add songs from others profiles to your list easily

Audio Cons

• Looks a little bit shady, but the music industry hasn’t said anything yet.

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