Wireless Outdoor Speakers - Back To The Great Outdoors

By Dave Heebs

Through our time here on Earth, we have always sought to be outdoors and enjoying ourselves. Even as we have mastered our environment and created houses and huge metropolitan cities, we still have something in us that longs to be outdoors and feel free. It is this yearning that leads us to the great outdoors so we can go biking, camping, go to parks to hang out or just enjoy a day outside by the pool.

Even though people may want to get back to nature, they still do not leave all of the technological world behind them. Electronic items are frequently accompanying their owners when they are going outside. Devices such as iPods have replaced the walkman of the 1980s.

iPods are available with many different accessories. But each iPod comes with a good set of stereo headphones. And while these headphones may keep you entertained with your music, they will not be able to entertain your guests. Fortunately Apple has included an external speaker port so that you can attach your iPod to a set of external stereo speakers.

But the technology of speakers doesn't end with the iPod. If you want your stereo to hook up with speakers outdoors, you can do so because the speaker manufacturers have developed many different models for you.

Manufacturers such as Acer, Dell, Harman Kardon, Creative Labs, Infinity, Klipsch, Samsung and Bose are just some of the manufacturers that you will come across in your quest to buy outdoor speakers. To purchase a nice, well made set of wireless outdoor speakers you would only need to pony up around $300 (give or take $100). In this price range, you are guaranteed to get speakers that have a great sound but will not break the bank.

The best thing about wireless outdoor speakers is their portability. The ability to bring them virtually anywhere is priceless when you consider some of the areas that you might want to take them and still jam to your tunes.

The one thing you need to make sure is the batteries are charged in the speakers. Since the speakers have no external power, they need to have an internal power source. This means that batteries are included in each one of these speakers. The batteries could be recharged via a solar panel or could be plugged into a wall socket so that their batteries can be fully charged. - 18758

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Downloading Movies Fast and Cheap

By Frank Jungsy

As the internet has evolved creative entrepreneurs and active innovators have been developing new uses for this exploding technology. A great example is movie downloading. In a few short years the online movie industry has become a huge and growing industry.

Years ago people started exchanging music files online, but with movies the file was just too big. As the internet speeds started to increase this started to change. Then with clever program designs, like Bit-Torrent, movie download times became reasonable, and they have become very popular.

There are tons of sites that offer streaming video, which is a temporary download that you watch as it simultaneously downloads. There is a buffer established to keep the stream going if there is some lag in the download speed.

The poor picture quality you get with many streaming videos is a calculated choice to let more people see the streams. If they have slower internet connections a stream of higher picture quality will not load fast enough and constantly pause as the download catches up.

The people who do P2P (peer to peer) downloading are finding that Hollywood is trying to stop them. Hollywood feels that the sites that offer P2P environments are helping people break copyright laws. The law has not been clarified completely on this issue.

The gray areas of the law are that the access to the equipment that would allow an "illegal' download to occur is not illegal in itself. So providing a person with a Bit-Torrent, for example, would be no different than providing a person with a car. If that person used that car to make a getaway during a robbery, that would not make the sale of the car illegal.

Even companies like Netflix have found a good way to use movie download technology to benefit their membership. They now offer a selection of over 12,000 movies that you can watch unlimited anytime. The format is a streaming download that has buffering technology that will provide you the best picture you internet speed can handle.

Other companies like Amazon are now selling movie titles through a download format. This means no more trips to the video store, just fire up the computer and make your purchase for immediate download. The video store may become obsolete.

Most people won't want to keep their movie downloads on their main hard drive. One option is to use an external drive to build your movie library. The more obvious move is to learn how to burn these downloads to DVD and then you can play them anywhere.

Some download sites provide films that are not up to par as far as picture quality goes. Make sure you read reviews of sites and check the blogs to see what's out there. There is nothing worse than watching a blurry movie.

The movie download industry will only grow and improve. Movies should become even cheaper with this type of delivery system. The big companies are now starting to enter this booming industry, and this should have an impact on everything about buying and renting downloads. This should only benefit us, the consumers. - 18758

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You can legally download movies from many sites online. http://www.downloadsmovieonline.com Why go to the video store when you can find the same movie only that you can download right at home. Many movie download sites offer unlimited downloads.

How To Learn Electric Guitar

By Payo W Perry

Making the decision to learn electric guitar is a source of excitement. An entire world or sonic colour, passion and musical bliss opens its doors! Often its some kind of inspiration such a great rock solo you've heard or simply life telling you go here, that makes you want to take it up.

It's going to help a lot if you've already had some experience playing chords and strumming on acoustic guitar. Usually starting with acoustic guitar is the cheapest and safest option because it allows you to see if you are really going to take to the instrument or not.

An important decision is what style of guitar will be your main interest? What is the style you're most excited about and feel the most motivation to learn? It's important as learning electric guitar is a very different experience depending on what you want to learn. Someone taking electric guitar lessons for Jazz, for example, is going to be a world apart from another learning Metal right?

Popular instruments belong to the people. There isnt any real right or wrong way to learn electric guitar which is one of the coolest things about it - you can find your own path and not be restricted to rules or exam grades. You'll learn how to play electric guitar quickest by using a combination of everything out there - personal lessons with a local tutor, online lessons, DVDs and books. Use it all together!

Finally a warning, please learn things which are easy and gradually build up your technique. Its going to take a while - all worthwhile things do. Even though you may be dying to learn that favorite song or solo you must stay within your current level and gradually build it up. If you attempt to play things which are too difficult for you now you'll end up very frustrated, you'll fail, you'll quit.

So long as you practice regularly - a little bit each day, and use a variety of learning resources youll be giving yourself the best chances of success on guitar. Make sure when you learn electric guitar that you stay within your range as a beginner, I'm repeating this because of its importance! - 18758

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The writer has been teaching guitar professionally for many years and often writes for online guitar websites. For FREE video tutorials on how to play electric guitar visit his very popular website famousriffs.com where youll discover a wealth of fantastic resources to learn electric guitar.

How to Use a Play Along CD: The Best Way For Drummers to Practice on Their Own

By Spencer (Spence) Strand

Most people learn how to play the drums and can play a basic beat, or a few common fills. But how can you take your drumming to the next level?

You're a beginning drum student. Or maybe you're an experienced drummer hitting the clubs and working the scene. But no matter what level you're at, one thing is a constant: practice.

But this requires working with other musicians. And not everyone is on the same schedule as you. Also, there may come a day when you simply are better than the band you're playing with, and are no longer challenged as a drummer.

Or you may find yourself labeled as a particular style and unable to break out of your genre. How does a country drummer gain any experience with Jazz for example? Or Funk? Once you've been pigeonholed, it can be tough for anyone to see you as anything else. Remember when Garth Brooks tried to break into rock? Even he was shut down quickly and he's Garth Brooks!

Of course, the alternative is to play alone which, lets face it, can be quite tedious and boring (there are only so many times you can play Wipeout or Zeppelin's Rock & Roll.) Well now there is a great alternative that is both fun and does not require anyone else's participation.

It's a new tool called a play along CD. Lets discuss what it is as well as how to get the best results from using it.

Play along CD is just a fancy name for a recording that's missing one of the instrument tracks. Its like a Karaoke recording (although not nearly as cheesy sounding.) Karaoke removes the vocal track and allows you to sing along. A play along CD is the same thing, but with your instrument missing. This allows you to play your part of the song.

Here's an example: You're a drummer, so you grab a drum play along CD. All you have to do is throw the CD on, jump behind your kit, and play away. Its like having the whole band in the room with you. And, best of all, you can get creative with the part. You may even come up with something better than the original.

All drummers need practice. And you can accomplish some of this with a simple metronome and a drum kit. But a great drummer can do more than just keep a beat. Professional drummers must develop a strong sense of time, master meter, and be able to groove. It's all about feeling. And you don't get that without playing with others either live or on a play along CD. That is what will make you the one everyone calls for a gig. - 18758

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Spencer (Spence) Strand is a professional drummer and drum instructor who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. To receive your free sample tracks from his Berklee recommended CD series, "Turn It Up and Lay It Down", please go to his site at DrumFun.com.

Learn To Play Guitar Chords At Home

By Jesscee Clark

You need discover the way to play, strum and finger pick guitar chords software to properly apply and understand chord extensions on the guitar fretboard.

Chords are basis of your rhythm guitar work. This is the other side of the equation from your lead guitar work. To play lead guitar you want to understand rhythm guitar and to play rhythm guitar you must understand lead guitar. They work together.

Understanding guitar chords is more than simply learning to play guitar chords are when 2 or more notes are played on adjacent guitar strings either at the same time or in quick order. And that chords are made of 3 notes to make up a true chord which is the root, third and 5th tone of a scale.

Learning chords is more than some simply strumming and finger picking systems. As an example, playing open chords could land you a great and wealthy career with some great singing without the need for any farther study. But success and knowledge are not always linked. Your limit to success might be you ability to only play some memorized open chords.

However, if you are more than simply to be taught how to play guitar chords, you already playing numerous guitar chords on your guitar fretboard and you already have some knowledge of chords and what they mean. If you take a look at open chords for example, we most likely actually do not even know much about them.

For example can you play all kinds of extensions with open chords and understand how to construct these properly on the guitar considering the guitar is not the same as a piano keyboard thus all is not as you could have thought? Do you understand how to put these chords together in numerous tactics from a music concept perspective?

Now there's much to think about aside from looking up some free "chord finder" online or getting some chord book, or some junky chord finding software thrown together to make a quick buck off of your ignorance.

Advanced understanding of guitar chords and the musical perspective does not come simply to most guitar players. Part of the problem is what is available on the mass market and the false web reviews, a penny for ten sites that make it difficult to find quality instruction.

And the other part of the problem is your need to spend more time and money and cash attempting to save a buck than just getting something right to start with. Guitar education with chords is a major study and enterprise, if you start to treat it with respect than you can get great guitar software and really move forward with your guitar playing ability. - 18758

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Learn and Master Guitar is a great source of learning to play guitar chords , and can help you in every possible way