Clementine | free music and audio file player

"Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer. It's a multiplatform music player, inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

Features:

• Search and play your local music library.
• Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, Last.fm, SomaFM,Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com,Soundcloud, and Icecast.
• Search and play songs you've uploaded to Google Drive.
• Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
• Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
• CUE sheet support.
• Play audio CDs."

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Mahara | ePortfolios

Mahara is an open source ePortfolio and social networking web application originally created by the government of New Zealand. It provides users with tools to create and maintain a digital portfolio of their learning, and social networking features to allow users to interact with each other. Mahara content management system provides users with blogs, a resume builder, a file manager and a view creator - a tool to help users create arrangements of their content in a particular way for others to see.

The eportfolio site http://myportfolio.school.nz, provided by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, free-of-charge for all New Zealand schools, is powered by Mahara

Android@Home seeks to rival Apple's Airplay

From http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/11026-android-home-could-rival-apple-airplay

"One area in which Google has yet to catch up with Apple is home entertainment. That may soon change, as Google is reportedly working on an Android-based home music system called Android@home. Such a system would likely be among the first products to come out of Project Tungsten, which Google demonstrated at their I/O conference last spring. There, Google showed a tablet that could manage various aspects of the home, including turning lights on and off, sending music from the Internet to a hi-fi, and speakers laced with an NFC chip to initiate music play."

Six steps to rock and roll greatness*

• Find a phone, and piece of paper and a marker pen.
• Take the marker pen and draw a keyboard on the piece of paper.
• Position the phone so the camera can see your keyboard.
• Turn on the Piano Reality AR app
• Bang out a melody on your portable, paper piano.
• Practice dodging the paparazzi.
  

*May require some talent.