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"Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes except iPhone, iPod touch and nano 6G). Floola Desktop is another freeware application to manage your local PC music library. Both are standalone applications that do not need installation and run underLinux (any GTK2 distro), Mac OS X (10.4 or newer!)" --I have used Floola to retrieve music files off of an old ipod that itunes would not allow me to use the music from. If anyone else has had this frustrating problem, Floola is your friend. It also allows you to use your ipod like an external hard drive and drag and drop files to and from it...no syncing necessary.

"We want to scan you, all of you, your body, your face, your emotions, your laughter, your tears. We want to sample you, preserve you. We want to own this thing called Robin Wright." I remember when I watched Star Wars with Friends no one could believe that Peter's Cushing's character was CGI. It is amazing to think of how far CGI has come and it will be interesting to see how it changes movies in the future

Pictify is Pinterest for artists and art lovers. A great way to curate your favorite artworks from around the globe. pictify.com

The GUI has been redesigned with a great new look and many time-saving enhancements! The Toolbars and Song Title Area have been redone, and the chord sheet now has a "Real" looking handwritten font for chords. We've added UserTracks. Now you can make your own RealTracks to add to your song.

I think this is kind of cool tool, it gives a new look to music and is a way to customize your work a little. Saves time.

I purchased this software several years ago and found it interesting. The RealTracks sounded clean and followed my chord and time changes as good as could be as expected for a computer program. Sadly, my computer was not powerful enough to run the program without it jamming/freezing/lagging. I think with a proper computer system, a lot of time, and some creativity you could produce a pretty professional backing track for gigging out or creating your own studio tracks without the help of other musicians.

Daniel Levitin is the Author of "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". He is a musician and neuroscientist and this post is him giving a talk about his research and book at Microsoft Research. One of his main premises from his research is that music may be more fundamental to humans than language.

This is a very riveting talk. I didn't come away with the idea that music might be more fundamental to humans than language, but that music is fundamental, as is language, and that each of us is a musical expert, if not expert performers!

I have continued thinking about this topic...Levitin also intimated that musical capacity is similar to language acquisition in that there is a window of time in which that capacity needs to be triggered in order for fluency in music to be attained. The window for language acquisition is birth to puberty. If your language capacity is not triggered within this time frame, you can't learn to speak as we understand speech. I wonder if this is really true of musical capacity...perhaps, but perhaps not in the way that it is of language. Of course they massive amounts of research have been applied to the question of language.

Indaba Music.com provides musicians the opportunity to Remix Cover Music from Major Artist as well as add your own profile.

Indaba Music.com provides musicians the opportunity to Remix Cover Music from Major Artist as well as add your own profile.

File Management and Exchange in depth in Logic Pro allows the sooth and easy transformation to share your music!

ThingLink is the leading platform for creating interactive images and videos for web, social, advertising, and educational channels. Be creative! Make your images come alive with video, text, images, shops, music and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories.

Joss Whedon bypassed Hollywood and the traditional distribution network by making his newest movie a $5 download on Vimeo.

Although listed as an educational site, Storybird.com is a mini gallery of original artworks and a social storytelling website. As an interactive create-your-own self publishing site, users can combine original text with available artwork to create unique children's books that can be shared with others. http://storybird.com/

This is awesome! I love the artwork and the concept. I think I might join and experiment with the program.

Read about how Jessica Wilt learned to use social media to enhance her connectivity with the arts community; hopefully others within the arts community will learn from her experience. "For whatever reason people, especially in the arts and culture sectors, remain fearful of using technology and social media in a way that enhances communication. I hope my example of effectively utilizing Twitter demonstrates how social media can play a crucial role connecting communities by sharing information and ideas with others in the field."

This is a great article about art apps. The one that interests me the most is ArtRage. It is amazing that a computer app can mimic the look of a real watercolor. One color actually bleeds into the next.

This is a recent article from The Atlantic, detailing how art museums are beginning to embrace the inevitability of the smart phone, rather than treat it as a nuisance/hindrance to the museum experience. This includes allowing patrons to map out their destinations using GPS, so they have a virtual guided tour. Museum-goers can also ask live questions to curators via their cell phones, as they peruse the artwork. Read on for more cool information regarding the future of technology in museums.

Plotting a novel or short story (or paper) and struggling to keep your notes in order? yWriter is a word processing program that does just that. Though Spartan in appearance, y Writer is functional and free to download.

Modernbests.com is a terrific website that allows musicians a direct opportunity to submit music for Jobs in the industry as well as provide the latest Sound Samples for Production to download into your studio and Legal Forms and Consultation.

Listen online to relaxing sound atmospheres, ambient music or chilling sound effects. You can even create and mix your own moods, all for free.

This is just a generic link to information about the different Bamboo Drawing Tablets Wacom has available. There are specific functions for each one. I have been using this for my design projects and it is really cool! It hooks right up to the computer,othr s ee is no more having to scan and send your art.

I love playing around with browser based music creators. I recently found this one, and it's pretty great. It's all royalty free loops and effects, and it's easy and fun. I wouldn't use it for writing music or anything I would try to promote, but it's an easy tool to get some ideas going.

OK now! Your giving me too many cool distractions, I'll never get my work done at this pace.

Thomas Cott is the director of marketing for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. "You've Cott Mail" is a fabulous weekday email for arts enthusiasts, managers, administrators, or artists. He picks a different topic everyday and scours the web for interesting/good/useful blogs, articles, etc, compiles them into one email with several links, and delivers it to your inbox. I can't recommend "You've Cott Mail" enough.

A website where you can "draw" with your mouse. This is very addictive! Much more relaxing to 'draw' on here mindlessly than come up with an idea for a drawing or painting!