Results tagged “mp3”

Apple advertises its 8 GB MP3 player––some device called the "I Pod Mini"––as having enough capacity for 2,000 songs. Rogers, on the other hand, is marketing its 8 GB Sony Ericsson W580i MP3-playing phone as having the capacity for 10,000 songs!

The good folks at TiVo have decided that now would be the optimum time to unleash their initially-much-talked-about-but-not-so-much-talked-about-anymore product on Canadians, a mere eight years after its release to the U.S. and U.K. markets. (Way to capitalize on a phenomenon, fellas!) TiVo can be credited––at least according to Canada.com––with "making TV watching less of a laborious task," which is a relative understatement considering how exhausting sitting through commercials can be to the average viewer. Don't...

There are more ways to walk and discover this city than just following the city’s Discovery Walk maps. There are an increasing number of guided audio tours that you can download from the Internet and pack into your digital music player before heading out on your expedition. One audio tour company, City Surf, has several neighbourhood tours available for about $10 each. Recently, City Surf teamed up with Waterfront Toronto to offer a free audio tour of the central waterfront area.

To some people, Groundhog Day is a silly little day where some rodent-like critter gets 15 seconds in the news cycle to flip a coin and tell us if there's going to be a short summer or not. Or for some, it could be all about the 1993 classic starring Bill Murray about a crazy day that repeats itself over and over and over again.

Everyone likes free swag, and we happen to have quite a bit of it lately. Our latest offering is for tickets to see Chicago buzz band The Changes, along with +/- and The Sharp Tongues this Wednesday at Sneaky Dee's. Yes, we know that the show is technically free, but hey, this you'll get in, should it happen to sell out. Perhaps more importantly, you'll also take home a signed copy of their CD Today Is Tonight.

Friday, we caught the 9:15 pm show of at the Bloor Cinema.

In response to the collapse of an overpass in Quebec, the provincial and municipal government will look at overpasses in this province. They reassure us that none of this province's overpasses have the same design as the one in Quebec and are regularly checked.

An officer was shot at earlier today which prompted a manhunt in Etobicoke. Police kept a nearby school and community centre closed for safety reasons.

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now.

In the year that the popularity of the ringtone might have outweighed the popularity of the single, Toronto-I-S-T comes up with the top ten songs that mattered in 2005.

Ah the holidays! A time when we can be together and share links. Here it's not so much sharing as providing. So:

With SH, it's one present after another. Here's what the big guy has passed down over the past two weeks:

We didn't actually spend the weekend with Crispin Glover (we didn't buy him breakfast or anything), but it got pretty close.

It's easy to avoid The Game and Fifty Cents. Likewise for Nickelback. It's even pretty easy to stay away from Thornley and the Barenaked Ladies. They don't bother us, and we don't bother them. But there are some bands, SOME bands, that bring us to the brink of violent disgust; it's almost beyond hatred. One example that is often played out here on Mercredi Mixtape is our distaste for Las Vegas corporate rockers The Killers. Most likely the result of some unresolved childhood issues, Torontoist has a hard time sleeping at night simply knowing that these bum-wipes are out there. Usually the finger-pointing and 'rockist' accusations can be heard at this point -- as at a Killers-infested party last Saturday -- to which we can only shrug. What is the reason that decent, law abiding, level-headed human beings can be so easily duped by The Killers?

was the turning point that brought on the hyper capitalist, sexism as a norm, drug-n-thug culture of rap today. Now, after the re-emergence of the creative emcee, Dre is looking to take back the balance of popularity from the Andre 3000's, Mos Def's, Roots's and Freeway's. The Game, who is the latest addition to Dre's group of muppets called the G-Unit, is every bit the regressive 1992 rap that maligned the genre for years. His nostalgia for George Bush Sr.-era thuggism may represent a change of pace that appeals to critics, but we can't seriously be considering returning to the "Bitches Ain't Shit" sloganism and ultra violence of past...can we? Here's this week's completely unrelated mixtape.

Last week, Torontoist was criticized for the inclusion of an Ol' Dirty Bastard song for the second time in the short run of our mixtape series. If this were a few years ago, Torontoist would have probably responded to the fairly legitimate beef by posting only ODB Mp3's today. But that was us then. Now, we take a cue from the populist French leader Jacques Chirac and take a more diplomatic approach to the problem. This week le Mercredi Mixtape offers no ODB, but rather a wide range of music that should satisfy the most diverse tastes. Voila: