Is Aaachoo the Next Generation of Social Networking?
By Bradley S Matthews

Arthur C. Clarke was quoted in Popular Science in May 1970, [1] in which he predicted that satellites would one day “bring the accumulated knowledge of the world to our fingertips.”

Well, it appears he was right. Fast forward to modern day where there seems to be no shortage of social networking (also called social media) sites on the internet, where we can instantly share ideas, business opportunities, and even recipes with our friends if we like. Instant information literally is right at our fingertips. Which isn’t a bad thing considering the unbelievable number of surfers online today who are looking to share and gather gobs of information on almost any topic you can think of.

We began with Friendster, moved on to Myspace, furthered our social media experience with Facebook, tinkered with Twitter, yielded to Youtube…and so on down the line. We literally surrendered our time to social media over the years like no other service on the web. There seems to be as much interest in social media as there are social media sites. Which is extraordinarily good for businesses.

But how many social media sites actually pay you to use them? Not many. I know of only three and I’m a member of them all: SWOM, Yournight.com….and now Aaachoo!

Aaachoo! is owned by a throng of experienced Internet Marketers with over 20 years of combined experience and success in the Internet and Network Marketing arena. The Aaachoo.com Community is for anyone that markets their business on the Internet and those that provide products or services to those that market their business on the Internet.

Member profiles are tailor-made for business folks. Networking and promotion appear to be the primary focus of Aaachoo profiles. They do not ask your weight and eye color in our profile questionnaire. (members certainly have the ability to provide that data on their profile if they wish though) In addition, members can select from several privacy levels when managing their profile and may compose blog posts quite easily using an embedded, rich text MS-Word styled editor. One click and members will be able to view the HTML source of the entry and make changes if needed.

Members may also earn points for doing everything you would normally do on a social networking site, except with Aaachoo.com it’s possible to win prizes. Aaachoo! also boasts a full featured classified ad system which is sure to be a huge hit with the marketing community. It is here that members can post as many classified ads as they want absolutely free.

Sweet.

Future promotional ideas and activities include, trips, cruises, special guests, experts, live training, and perhaps even a bus tour in the works, according to the website.

The social media world seems to be wide open to Aaachoo!

Below are a few of the features of Aaachoo.com including the compensation plan & community Info. With the plethora of useful services, Aaachoo! may very well become the talk of the Internet.

Income

> 3X9 Forced Matrix -

> No Sponsoring Required to Earn on 6 Levels!

> Sponsor just a few to open up the entire Pay Out.

> Aaachoo Power Included

> $80K A Month Potential

You get paid every month on the same members using the Aaachoo! service, a service that millions of people are already using and just aren’t getting paid for it.

Member Benefits

> Social & Business Profile

> Audio, Video & Photos

> Join & Create Groups

> Create Your Own Blog

> Member meeting rooms

Community

> Home Business People

> Internet Marketers

> Marketing Providers

> No Free Members

Highlights

> All Community Members Are Paid Members.

> No Limits On Your Marketing.

> Professional Marketing System Included.

> Earn a $15 Fast Start Bonus on personal referrals.

For members that are interested in recommending Aaachoo.org! to others and earning a monthly income for their efforts, the company provides a professional marketing system at no extra cost. Members can post blogs, as many as they like with no size limit. They will be able to use conference rooms and create groups that are specific to their company, product, service or industry and will have the option to put banners and links on their personal profile page as well as get discounts on Aaachoo.org! advertising packages.

Web 2.0 is here and Aaachoo.org! along with Aaachoo! seems like an interesting opportunity for the marketing community to take advantage of it. Capture pages, contact manager, automated follow up, matrix viewer and commission reporting are all Included with an upgraded membership.

This is an amazing time in the history of the internet when social networking has given us all an incredible opportunity to open up new and exciting avenues of online adventures.

NOTES

[1]^ “TV Broadcast Satellite”. May 1970.

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If you care about the sound quality or transferability of you music archive, you’ll want to investigate the various import options. These allow you to weigh up the size of the imported music files against the fidelity of the sound and the degree to which they’ll be compatible with software and hardware other than iTunes and the iPod. This article focuses on importing from CD, but the advice applies equally to files you’ve downloaded or created yourself.

Importing Options

To access the iTunes’ Importing options, open Preferences (from the iTunes menu on Mac; from the Edit menu on PC) and click on the Importing tab at the top. The two most important options are those in drop downs. They allow you to choose which file format/compression type to use, and the bitrate. If you’re not sure what a file or bitrate is, read on.

Which Format

iTunes currently offers five file-format import options: AAC, MP3, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV. If any of these don’t appear in your list of options, you’re probably running an old version of iTunes. Download and install the latest version.

In brief, AAC is best for day to day iPod and computer use; MP3 is slightly worse at the bitrate, but can be played on any digital music player or computer (and burned onto MP3 CD); Apple Lossless is for fidelity fanatics; and AIFF and WAV are only really for importing tracks with the aim of burning CDs.

Note that all file formats can be burned to audio CDs and played back in normal hi-fis - it’s only when sharing actual music files with non-iTunes or non-iPod equipment that compatibility becomes an issue.

Which Bitrate?

The bitrate is the amount of data that each second of sound is reduced to. The higher the bitrate, the higher the sound quality, but also the more disk space the track takes up. The relationship between file size and bitrate is basically proportional, but the same isn’t true of sound quality, so a 128 Kbps track takes half as much space as the same track recorded at 256 Kbps, but the sound will be only very marginally different. Still, marginal differences are what being a hi-fi obsessive is all about.

The default import setting in recent versions of iTunes, listed as “high quality”, is AAC at 128 Kbps. Most people will be perfectly satisfied with this combination (which is usually said to be roughly equivalent to MP3 at 160 Kbps), but if you’re into your sound in a serious way it may not be quite good enough. Particularly if you listen to high-fidelity recordings of acoustic instruments, such as well recorded classical music, and if you connect your iPod or computer to a decent home stereo, you may find AAC 128 Kbps leads to a distinct lack of presence and brightness in your favourite recordings. If so, either opt for the Apple Lossless Encoder or stick with AAC and up the bitrate. The best thing to do is to run a comparative experiment with a suitably well-recorded track.

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What’s your favorite kind of music? I’m not talking about genre, I mean the real type, the core type. Do you like happy music? How about angry songs? Are you a sad music kind of person, or do you crave the pump up music that adds to your drive? Personally, I like it all. Happy songs, sad songs, angry songs, depressing songs, motivational songs, workout songs, everything, I love the feeling of the music taking complete control and altering my emotions.

Music is so manipulative that it has the ability to completely change your mood. You could be having he best day of your life, then listen to some depressing songs and have a full 180 degree mood swing. Bob Marley is a happy music mastermind. Coldplay has released sad songs, as well as happy songs. DMX has a number of songs I like to listen to when I workout because of the power I can harness from listening to it.

If you have ever experienced the feeling of the music taking control you will understand my inability to describe it. The feeling can’t be described in words. The artist perfectly describes every single detail of your life, or current situation, and you can’t help but to close your eyes and just absorb the extraordinary feeling. It’s euphoria. It’s a drug, a performance enhancer. Why is it that some people are able to lift more weight in the gym when there workout playlist is blasting?

Music is so powerful it can change peoples lives. So, next time you plug your headphones into your iPod and put on your favorite tracks, let the music take control.

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Music Composing Software - How to Compose Beautiful Music
By Michael Keynes

With music composing software you can compose beautiful music that lights up the spirit even if you don’t have a lot of knowledge about music therapy. Technology has made it really easy to express your creative potential and share it with the world.

Too many people take what is possible today for granted. If you reflect on it - just a couple of hundred years ago, the most people did not even have the time, let alone the means, to compose their own music - they did not know how to do it and they did not have the instruments to play music. And most of them did not even have the time to make music because they had to work all day long.

Nowadays, a simple computer program can help you to create the most amazing array of music. You can compose music on your computer and your sound card can emulate the sounds of all kinds of instruments, whether it is a piano, a guitar, a trumpet, a saxophone, a violin or whatever instrument you wish.

You can easily make changes and put several different tracks on top of each other to make the music sound fuller and richer. Music composing software allows you to easily take the melodies and musical ideas that are on the inside of your head and transport them in the outside world so that other people can listen to it too.

The challenge nowadays is to find the right kind of program, because there are so many. The best way to go about choosing a program is by setting your priorities straight. What matters the most for you?

Yes, you can get a professional music composing program for several thousand dollars that has all kinds of functions, but you will basically need the knowledge of an experienced sound engineer to actually use that program.

Instead, for most beginners it is much more advisable to start out with a program that is made for beginners. In the past that meant you had to accept “cheap keyboard sounds”, but nowadays even entry-level programs make it possible to create awesome, professional sounding music that you can easily convert into MP3 files that you can use in your own videos, turn into a CD, load on your iPod or mobile phone and share with other people on the internet if that is what you want to do.

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Baroque Period Music
By Steve Thorn

For me the baroque period music really has some of my favourite pieces in it, is usually bright and very positive in sound. From the wonderful sound of the oboe, to the really bright tones of the mandolin. There is something in this musical genre to lift anyone’s spirits.

I do of course also like some of the sad and dark moments in the baroque music era as well, one that i love is didos lament (when i am laid in earth) from henry purcells opera dido and aeneas. This aria is really beautiful and very sad indeed, it cannot fail to move anyone almost to tears.

One really cannot do justice to the baroque period, which spans from about 1600 to 1750. With the wealth of composers contained within that timeframe, in just the brief context of this article. But we can list a few of the composers and some of my personal favourites.

George Friderich Handel.

1/ Lascia Ch’io Pianga (let me lament my cruel fate) from

rinaldo.

2/ Ombra mai fù from his opera xerxses (known as his largo)

3/ The Sarabande (3 beat dance)

4/ Sound an Alarm from his oratorio Judas Maccabeus.

Johan Sebastian Bach.

1/ Double violin concerto

(The Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo in D

Minor, BWV 1043)

2/ The bach Cello Suites.

Antonio Vivaldi.

1/ The Four Seasons (spring,summer,autumn,winter)

2/ The mandolin concertos

Tomaso Albinoni

1/ The Oboe Concerto,s

2/ Adagio for Strings.

Johan Pachelbel

1/ Pachelbel,s Cannon (Canon in D major )

Gregorio Allegri

1/ Miserere mei, Deus” (Latin: “Have mercy on me, O God”).

This is a truly beautiful piece of music.

I really hope i have managed to give you an appetite, and you will now explore the diverse amount of music contained within the baroque period.

Steve Thorn.

The baroque period contains some real jewels to listen to, i never tire of listening to the wonderful music contained within this timeframe. I also look forward to discovering some more gems as i continue exploring the genre.

Steve Thorn

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Music Composing Software - How to Compose Beautiful Music
By Michael Keynes

With music composing software you can compose beautiful music that lights up the spirit even if you don’t have a lot of knowledge about music therapy. Technology has made it really easy to express your creative potential and share it with the world.

Too many people take what is possible today for granted. If you reflect on it - just a couple of hundred years ago, the most people did not even have the time, let alone the means, to compose their own music - they did not know how to do it and they did not have the instruments to play music. And most of them did not even have the time to make music because they had to work all day long.

Nowadays, a simple computer program can help you to create the most amazing array of music. You can compose music on your computer and your sound card can emulate the sounds of all kinds of instruments, whether it is a piano, a guitar, a trumpet, a saxophone, a violin or whatever instrument you wish.

You can easily make changes and put several different tracks on top of each other to make the music sound fuller and richer. Music composing software allows you to easily take the melodies and musical ideas that are on the inside of your head and transport them in the outside world so that other people can listen to it too.

The challenge nowadays is to find the right kind of program, because there are so many. The best way to go about choosing a program is by setting your priorities straight. What matters the most for you?

Yes, you can get a professional music composing program for several thousand dollars that has all kinds of functions, but you will basically need the knowledge of an experienced sound engineer to actually use that program.

Instead, for most beginners it is much more advisable to start out with a program that is made for beginners. In the past that meant you had to accept “cheap keyboard sounds”, but nowadays even entry-level programs make it possible to create awesome, professional sounding music that you can easily convert into MP3 files that you can use in your own videos, turn into a CD, load on your iPod or mobile phone and share with other people on the internet if that is what you want to do.

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Music Licensing Tips - Royalty Free Music Explained
By Aaron Davison

There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the term “royalty free” music as it applies to the music licensing industry. Some believe that this means there is no cost at all associated with the music in question, which is not the case. Others believe that the music being licensed under this arrangement is “copyright free”, which is also not true. Different libraries will offer different types of deals and the agreements will vary to a certain degree, however, as a general rule of thumb, ¨royalty free¨ music simply means that the end user has purchased a “lifetime synchronization license” for a given song or group of songs. In other words, they have the right to synchronize your music with your audio and/or video productions an unlimited number of times without incurring any additional expense.

There are other types of production music licenses, these include “Needle Drop” licensing where the user pays a fee each time they synchronize a piece of music, and “Blanket Licensing” where the user essentially leases a group of music or CDs, and is able to use the music for a specified set of uses during the duration of the lease (typically a one, two, or three year commitment). Each of these licenses are actually more like renting the music than buying. While the end users don´t actually own the music with a buyout (royalty free) library, they do own a lifetime license to synchronize your music with their productions.

The other big misconception about royalty free music is that the creators of the music don´t receive performance royalties. Television broadcasters pay annual royalties to the Performing Rights Societies for the right to broadcast music on their shows. When music is broadcast on television or cable TV, it is tracked by something called a Cue Sheet. This is precisely where the term Royalty Free does NOT apply and can be easily misconstrued. Cue sheets determine where the royalties previously paid by the broadcaster get distributed. There are no costs associated with cue sheets and most Royalty Free music libraries require that cue sheets be properly filled out when the music is for broadcast use. A cue sheet is a paper trail that ensures writers get paid what is due to them out of the money that has been previously paid by the television stations and broadcasting entities.

In conclusion, a “Royalty Free” license means that the end user does not continually pay a “synchronization royalty” each time they use a given piece of music and instead only pay a one time fee upfront. It does NOT mean that the writer will not receive the performance royalty, or broadcast royalty, due him or her when his music is aired. This royalty has already been paid in advance by the broadcaster and should be distributed appropriately through the filling out and submission of cue sheets.

Aaron Davison is a Berklee College Of Music Alumnus who has been working in the music business for over ten years. His songs have been heard on a variety of television shows and he has performed live throughout the world. Visit Aaron’s website, http://www.howtolicenseyourmusic.com, for more information on getting your songs placed in TV and Film.

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iTunes - Music Online - iTunes Music Store
By Simon Dawson

The iTunes Music Store isn’t the only option for downloading tracks from the Internet. But if you use iTunes and an iPod, it’s unquestionably the most convenient, offering you instant, legal, access to hundreds of thousands of tracks for 79p/99c each. Unlike some of its competitors, the iTunes Music Store is not a website, so don’t expect to reach it with Internet Explorer or Safari. The only way in is through iTunes: simply connect to the Net, click the Music Store icon in the Source List, and after a few seconds the iTunes window will be taken over by the Store’s front page…

Logging in for the first time

Though any iTunes user can browse the Music Store, listen to samples and look at artwork, if you actually want to buy anything you need to set up an account. Which is easily done: hit the Sign In button (top right); press Create New Account (or choose, if you prefer, to use your existing.mac or AOL account details); and follow the prompts to enter your payment and contact details. If someone else is already signed in to the Store on the same computer, they’ll need to sign out first.

You’ll need your ID and password each time you want to but something, so keep them safe.

Navigating

You shouldn’t struggle to find your way around the iTunes Music Store. Like online CD stores such as Amazon, it lets you peruse by genre, look at “Staff Favourites”, “Featured Artists”, “Exclusives” and so on. But it also lets you use the various tools familiar from browsing your own iTunes Library. For example:

Searching

Once you are in the Store the iTunes Search field can be used to search the Store’s catalogue. The homepage also features a link to Power Search” where you can narrow your search criteria.

Browsing

The Browse function works in exactly the same way as it does for your own Library: hit the Browse button in the top right corner and then browse genres, artists and albums in the columns that appear.

Quicklinks

Whether you are browsing your own Library or the Music Store’s catalogue, you can use the grey circular Quicklink buttons in Song List to quickly access all the Music Store’s selections for a particular artist. Quicklinks can be turned on and off for your own Library in iTunes Preferences under General.

Previewing Music

You can preview thirty seconds’ worth of any track within the Music Store catalogue simply by double-clicking the song’s name in the Song List. You can also drag any previews into playlists on the Source List to listen to later. These previews will appear in the Song List all ready for you to click when you want to buy the whole track.

Buying music

Once you’re ready to buy some tracks, there are two ways to go about it. You could use the “1-Click” method, whereby a single click of a Buy Song button in the Song List will debit the payment from your card and start the track downloading to your iTunes Library. Alternatively you can shop using a “Shopping Cart”, which appears in the Source List. As you browse the store you add songs to your cart using the Add Song buttons; when you are done, click the cart’s icon in the Source List, inspect it’s contents and then hit the Buy Now button in the bottom right corner to pay and start downloading.

You can set which method you wish to use in the iTunes Preferences panel under Store.

Authorizing your computer

Music purchased from the iTunes Music Store can only be “authorized” for use on five machines at any one time. This way Apple hope that they can curb the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted music. Your computer is authorized to play music you purchase when you set up your account, or when you enter your ID and password to play a song that you’ve downloaded.

If your account is already authorized with five computers, you will have to deauthorize one of the machines before playing music on a sixth. This is done by selecting Deauthorize computer… from the Advanced menu in iTunes. Equally, if you ever plan to sell or ditch an old machine which has been used to play purchased songs, make sure you deauthorize it before you say goodbye.

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iTunes - Sound Quality and Music File Formats
By Simon Dawson

If you care about the sound quality or transferability of you music archive, you’ll want to investigate the various import options. These allow you to weigh up the size of the imported music files against the fidelity of the sound and the degree to which they’ll be compatible with software and hardware other than iTunes and the iPod. This article focuses on importing from CD, but the advice applies equally to files you’ve downloaded or created yourself.

Importing Options

To access the iTunes’ Importing options, open Preferences (from the iTunes menu on Mac; from the Edit menu on PC) and click on the Importing tab at the top. The two most important options are those in drop downs. They allow you to choose which file format/compression type to use, and the bitrate. If you’re not sure what a file or bitrate is, read on.

Which Format

iTunes currently offers five file-format import options: AAC, MP3, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV. If any of these don’t appear in your list of options, you’re probably running an old version of iTunes. Download and install the latest version.

In brief, AAC is best for day to day iPod and computer use; MP3 is slightly worse at the bitrate, but can be played on any digital music player or computer (and burned onto MP3 CD); Apple Lossless is for fidelity fanatics; and AIFF and WAV are only really for importing tracks with the aim of burning CDs.

Note that all file formats can be burned to audio CDs and played back in normal hi-fis - it’s only when sharing actual music files with non-iTunes or non-iPod equipment that compatibility becomes an issue.

Which Bitrate?

The bitrate is the amount of data that each second of sound is reduced to. The higher the bitrate, the higher the sound quality, but also the more disk space the track takes up. The relationship between file size and bitrate is basically proportional, but the same isn’t true of sound quality, so a 128 Kbps track takes half as much space as the same track recorded at 256 Kbps, but the sound will be only very marginally different. Still, marginal differences are what being a hi-fi obsessive is all about.

The default import setting in recent versions of iTunes, listed as “high quality”, is AAC at 128 Kbps. Most people will be perfectly satisfied with this combination (which is usually said to be roughly equivalent to MP3 at 160 Kbps), but if you’re into your sound in a serious way it may not be quite good enough. Particularly if you listen to high-fidelity recordings of acoustic instruments, such as well recorded classical music, and if you connect your iPod or computer to a decent home stereo, you may find AAC 128 Kbps leads to a distinct lack of presence and brightness in your favourite recordings. If so, either opt for the Apple Lossless Encoder or stick with AAC and up the bitrate. The best thing to do is to run a comparative experiment with a suitably well-recorded track.

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4 Tips to Read Music Notes Fast
By Marcus JZ Wong

Note reading is very important for being able to read music notes fast, and improve sight reading in exams. There are four easy to learn tips that can help you memorize them easily:

In music notation, there are two staves (or called staffs in US)- one for the treble clef, which is usually played by the right hand; and one for the bass clef, usually played by the left hand. Once you can recall any note on the stave, you will know you have mastered note reading!

To remember the treble clef notes quickly, remember that the treble clef notes in the spaces (starting from the bottom) are F, A, C, E. This is easy to remember, as is spells FACE.

Remembering the treble clef notes in the lines: E, G, B, D, F. You can remember it by the mnemonic Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit (sounds corny, but it works!).

The bass clef notes in the spaces (also starting from the bottom) are A, C, E, G. You can remember this by All Cows Eat Grass.

The bass clef notes in the lines are G, B, D, F, A- so remember that Great Big Dogs Fight Animals!

Test yourself regularly by making flashcards- print off a music stave and write a letter on each flash card; just flip the cards face down and one-by-one, go through each letter, placing where you think the note is on the stave. After, just check with a reliable source.

Those are the four tips to remember the lines and spaces of each clef quickly, and therefore helps you to read music notes fast. Good luck on your music journey!

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