5 Essential Music Apps For Your Needs

FOXTEL GO

IPHONE, IPAD

You don't need to be at home to watch Foxtel, If you're already paying for the service, the Foxtel Go app lets you access 60 live channels (depending on your subscription package) and hundreds of hours of catch-up TV content for no extra charge over a Wi-Fi or 3G/4G connection from anywhere in Australia. An Android client is coming soon.

PANDORA RADIO

IPHONE, IPAD, ANDROID, WINDOWS PHONE, BLACKBERRY

Pandora is perfect for the times when you want to listen to music but can't be bothered queuing up tracks. Just tell it the name of an artist, song or composer you want to listen to, and it'll create a personalised radio station that plays similar music. Like a real radio station, however, you can't replay tracks, and you can only skip tracks a handful of times per day.

SPOTIFY

IPHONE, IPAD, ANDROID, WINDOWS PHONE

You'll have to cough up $12 a month to access it on a mobile device, but the vast catalogue of over 20 million tracks and various cool playback features make Spotify a worthwhile investment. The 'radio' feature lets you create a personalised station of music similar to a certain song or artist (similar to Pandora), and you can sync as many tracks as you like for offline listening,

TUNEIN RADIO

IPHONE, IPAD, ANDROID, WINDOWS PHONE, BLACKBERRY

Remember when mobile phones used to come with built-in FM tuners? Now you can just download Tuneln Radio and access not only the local stations, but thousands of stations around the world as well. The app makes it easy to navigate between different genres of stations, and you can save the ones you listen to most to the favourites tab.

SOUNDCLOUD

IPHONE, IPAD, ANDROID

Whether you're an aspiring musician or simply someone that loves music, SoundCloud is the place to be for streaming new tunes fresh out of the recording studio. You can follow musicians you like, get notifications whenever they upload new tunes, share tracks and sets with your social networks, and even record and upload music directly from your mobile device.

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Must Have Photo Accessories for iPad editing and iPhone

The best hardware add-ons for iPad editing and iPhone photography Camera Connection Kit

Works with iPad

This really is the photographer's best friend. The original CCK is a set of dongles that plug into older iPads' 30-pin dock and enables you to plug in either a cameras memory card or a USB cable. For Lightning-equipped iPads, Apple sells new individual USB and SD card adapters. Once connected, you can import your pictures to the iPad for editing, without deleting the originals from the camera.

Most importantly, the CCK makes it possible to edit images shot in raw formats - after a fashion. Normally, the iPad can't do anything with raw pictures, but after importing them using the CCK you get a JPEG copy for apps to work with. If that's enough, great - and the convenience of being able to browse and edit pics right there and then isn't to be sniffed at. If you want more power later, you still have the originals to feed into a desktop tool. It's the best of both worlds.

Photojojo Pocket Spotlight

Works with iPhone, iPod touch

Yes, you'll look ridiculous with this plugged into your iPhone's headphone jack, but a portable, continuous spotlight is an better way to take photos than trusting the iPhone's flash and hoping your subject doesn't blink at the wrong microsecond. There's also a pack of colour gels for it, should you need to create a different atmosphere.

Vtec 12x Telephoto

Works with iPhone

The final essential lens: a telephoto to get up close to any subject. As ever, it looks silly attached to the iPhone camera, and it's no substitute for a DSLR, but being able to shoot from a distance more than justifies the small cash outlay to have it in your pocket as and when you need it.

Joby Gorillapod

Works with iPhone, iPod touch

There are many small tripods out there (all of which need an adaptor like the Glif to connect to the iPhone), but the GorillaPod has a special trick: its legs can be twisted around almost anything, from a tree branch to a door handle to your arm. This gives you scope for setting the iPhone up in a million different ways while out in the field, while still being able to straighten the legs and use it as a regular tripod (though without a spirit level, it will be a little wonkier than most if you do).

Multiple sizes of GorillaPod are available, and there are options for one with magnetic feet and a special mount for iPhones. The original is the right one for smartphones, though the company makes ones that go all the way up to DSLRs with heavy lenses. Just make sure it has a good grip on whatever you've wrapped it around before you start prodding the screen.

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Apple’s iPad is Ruling Online Shoppers and Earning Profit

There has been huge competition from the other tablets since Apple’s iPad has been launched. This is the reason why this is accountable for 89.28 percent of e-commerce website traffic. This tablet also collects more dollars on pre-user basis than the other ones. The figures have come from Monetate's most recent Ecommerce Quarterly report that has been issued on Wednesday and it provided to the AppleInsider. The necessary data that has been collected from the first quarter of 2013 demonstrates that Apple iPad will be held responsible for almost 9 amongst every 10 tablets that surf websites on e-commerce.

Apple's leading share is down by some extent since one year and it controlled 91.68 percent of e-commerce traffic. The tablets that gained presence in the market were Android tablets. These tablets grew from 4.75 percent since last year to 8.20 percent in the first quarter of the present year.

Surprisingly, Amazon's Kindle Fire has lost its traffic share amongst the shopping websites in the last year. As such, Kindle Fire has fallen down from 3.58 to 2.51 percent. Apple iPad is believed to be the head when the issue is how much amount the tablet users are actually spending. The amount of money that the tablet users spend is $99.05 on an average. Android tablets came in the second position with $95.48 on a per-order basis whereas Kindle Fire came in the third position with $83.58.

It has been revealed that the iPad owners do not only like to shop on the Internet, however they also like to spend money on every person basis, than challenging the stages. The figures have been derived from examples above 500 million shopping experiences online. This has been followed by Monetate, of whose Frontier Airlines, Best Buy, Aeropostale, The Sports Authority and PETCO are the potential clients.

The usage of the tablets is also rising for online shopping. This has increased from 5.95 percent of e-commerce traffic during the first quarter of 2012 to 10.58 percent at the beginning of 2013. The tablets are a bit more popular than the smart phones in case of online shopping. This is because the handsets are related for 10.44 percent of e-commerce traffic. However, the customary computers are still accountable for 78.99 percent in the first quarter of 2013. As per Monetate, the owners of Mac spend more for every order amongst the customary computers. The purchase value may be $106.35 on an average. Windows personal computer users will spend $97.77 for each order on an average.

Lastly, amongst the shoppers for smart phone, Google's Android platform seems to be the most profitable one. This is on a per-purchase basis, resulting $107.14 for every purchase on an average. This is a little more than Apple's iPhone, with $107.03 on an average for every e-commerce order that is being placed.

Just like Mac against Monetate's data did not clear up traffic from iPhone and Android smart phones, it is not known as to which platform will be seeing more number of e-commerce purchasers on the whole. Although Google's Android accounts for 75 percent of smart phones that are shipped as of now, Apple's iOS still is the leader for browser sharing use. This also advises that the owners of Android and iPhone use their devices in much more unusual styles.

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