Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

These days, you can do almost anything online for free and that includes listening to your favorite songs without paying a single cent. Below we have listed the top 5 sites you can listen and groove to your favorite track for free (well, almost all). Check it out: -

Grooveshark (http://listen.grooveshark.com/)

Grooveshark is one of the best places to listen to music online for free. There are millions of songs in their collection. The only downside is there will be a 160×600px banner ad which will keep showing you ads (which can be removed at $3/mo). On the other hand, you don’t have to look at the screen once you have added all the songs you want to listen to the queue. You can even save those songs to a playlist and embed the playlist to your iGoogle, Blogger, MySpace, Hi5, Typepad, Wordpress, Orkut and so on.

Pros: Million of songs, Fast and smooth streaming, Ability to save playlist and embed the playlist as widgets to social networking sites and blogs.
Cons: No continuous play.

Jango (www.jango.com/)

Jango used to be my favorite music site until recently where it started to collaborate with Rhapsody. Unlike Grooveshark, Jango limits the number of songs you are able to listen to although they list down all the songs from an artist. And if you are lucky, you may be able to listen to your favorite track by your favorite artist.

Pros: A huge collection of songs, Pretty good streaming most of the time, Continuous play according to your what you have previously searched.
Cons: Only selected tracks are available for streaming randomly.

Napster (http://free.napster.com/)

Napster, these days is your source of legal music. There is a free section on Napster where you can stream your favorite music for free. But in order to listen to full length tracks, you must reside in the US. Otherwise, you’ll only be able to listen to your favorite track for only 30 seconds.

Pros: A huge collection of songs.
Cons: Only available to the US residents (others can only listen to a 30-second snippets). Even so users can only listen to any particular song up to three times, after which the users will need to subscribe to Napster or purchase the song to play it in full again.

Last FM (www.last.fm)

Last FM is one of the most popular music sites around with the ability to recommend you tracks based on what you listen to — the more you listen, the more Last FM will learn about you and the more personalized your radio station will become. However, like Napster, there is a limitation. For users living outside US, UK and Germany, you only get to listen to the radio for 30 days for free, which afterwards, you must subscribe to continue. For users in the US, UK and Germany, you can listen to Last FM for free with the exception of subscription premium radio features: listening to playlists and stations of music you’ve loved or tagged.

Pros: A huge collection of songs, Personalized radio, Ability to download a scrobbler and listen without login to the browser, Ability to listen on your iPod, Selected MP3’s available for download for free.
Cons: Available only to residents of US, UK and Germany whereas others can only listen for free for 30 days.

YouTube (www.youtube.com/

Although YouTube is a video streaming site, there are millions of music videos available in YouTube. With the playlist, you can add all your favorite tracks into one place and let it run in the background, and voila, your own jukebox with videos!

Pros: A huge collection of songs (music videos), Can watch the music videos while listening to your favorite tracks.
Cons: Slower streaming, Not available in some countries, i.e. China.

Honorable mentions: VH1 Radio, Yahoo! Music, MySpace.

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Starbucks is giving away free pastry for the morning of July 21, 2009. All you need to do is print this coupon and purchase any beverage and present at Starbucks between opening time and 10:30am.

Only valid in the U.S. stores with the purchase of any handcrafted drinks while stock last.

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Online games are getting more popular as the economy looms. More and more people are spending their free time at home playing online games because it’s the most economic form of entertainment and most of the time, online games are usually free! Club 300 Bowling game at ESPNArcade.com is as real as its get when it comes to Tenpin bowling.

It looks real, feels real and best of all, it’s a good place to practice your bowling game in case your company’s organizing a bowling outing for the staff in less than a week time, you don’t have to embarrass yourself with gutter balls.

Club 300 Bowling

My score is 267, can you beat that?

Popularity: 1%

Oprah is giving away free KFC chickens. Yes, you heard it right. In fact, you can get two pieces of grilled chicken, two individual sides and a biscuit all for free!

Go to unthinkfc.com to download your KFC coupon

The coupon is good for 2 pieces of Kentucky Grilled Chicken™ (manager’s choice) and two individual sides and a biscuit at participating KFC® locations in the United States from May 5, 2009 to May 19, 2009 — excluding Mother’s Day, May 10, 2009. Please note that coupon download time is limited as it is only available from 9 a.m. CDT on May 5, 2009, to 11:59 p.m. CDT on May 6, 2009.

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These days, there are many web sites that offer music video embeds and there are very few sites that offer free music downloads. Even rarer, there are almost none that offer the best of both worlds until the arrival of Kerchoonz, a new music site which not only let you embed music videos to your blogs or web sites, it also let you listen to streaming music or download the music for free and legally. In fact, you’ll be paying the artists while you get to listen to the songs for free. Almost too hard to believe?

This is how it works:

New users at Kerchoonz can sign up as either "Listener & Fan", "Artist/Band", "Industry Pro", "Label", "DJ/Remixer" or as a "Publisher". As musicians (Artist/Band, Label, etc.), you get a new window of opportunity to make money when other users download or stream your music. Even as an unsigned artist, Kerchoonz lets you earn money too when users download or stream your music. In fact, at the time of writing, an unsigned artist named Donna Marie is topping the "Top 100" chart with songs like "This world", "Goodtime girl" and more.

The unique features of Kerchoonz is that you can create a blog, make friends and communicate with other users whether they are established musicians, new musicians or music fans just like you and me. Long gone are the days where you buy a CD in a "brick-and-mortar" record store. Kerchoonz is the new way where musicians get their work appreciated and enjoyed by the listeners while earning revenues at the same time.

Below is one of the music videos you can embed from Kerchoonz: -

Popularity: 1%

Quiznos is giving away 1 million free subs sandwich with its Millionsub Giveaway. All you need to do is simply register and you’ll get a free sub coupon in your email. You can always opt out of its marketing database later on.

At the moment of writing, 35,287 subs have already given out. That means only 964,713 subs are left to be given away. Visit Millionsubs.com and claim your subs today!

Quiznos is the second-largest submarine sandwich shop chain in North America, after Subway.

Popularity: 2%

We have compiled a list of 300 free Christmas goodies, from Christmas E-Cards to Christmas Fonts and Christmas Icons. Enjoy and Happy Holidays!

• 12 Songs for Christmas
• 31 Top Sites For Free Christmas and New Year Greetings
• 15 Seasonal Resources to Send Free Christmas eCards
• 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
• 24 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
• 19 Must-Have Collection Of Free Christmas Resources (Exclusive Designers Kit)
• 18 Awesome Christmas Lights and Imaginary Photos
• 30 Photoshop Tutorials That Will Make Your Christmas Special
• 40 Free Christmas Icon Set For Download
• 10 Free Christmas Fonts
• 20 Free Christmas Photoshop Brush Sets
• 7 Free Java scripts to Decorate your Website for Christmas
• 13 Elegant Free Christmas Icon set in PNG/GIF
• 1 Christmas Free Wordpress Theme

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Do you like strategy games? AddictingGames has tonnes of games that will keep you hook onto your PC for hours. And one of the highest rated games is Mytheria, a card game where you battle against the computer with cards!

Battle with powerful cards. Power up, or draw more? You’ll need to use your entire brain to win this war.

Warning: Mytheria is extremely addictive, play it at your own risk!

Play the game! Visit http://www.addictinggames.com/mytheria.html

Popularity: 1%

Adobe launches Adobe Photoshop Express on Thursday. Photoshop Express is currently in beta version is an online version of Adobe’s popular graphic-editing software, Adobe Photoshop.

Great news! Registered users will get free 2GB of storage to store their photos.

Applying sketch effect on Adobe Photoshop Express

Once you sign up, you get a “personal sharing URL,” such as http://yowazzup.photoshop.com. You can only edit files that are uploaded to your account.

So what are the functions of Photoshop Express do? You can:

• Crop & rotate the photo
• Autocorrect the photo
• Change the exposure of the photo
• Apply Red-eye removal
• Retouch the photo
• Change the saturation
• Change the white balance
• Sharpen
• Highlight
• Apply special effects such as sketch, tint, pop colors, hue, black & white and distort

Photoshop Express can also be integrated into your Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa accounts.

The best part is you can display the photos you have edited on the Gallery and let the world to see! You can display your photos in 3D or in grid or like an alien pop circle. Pretty cool, huh?

Though the beta is U.S.-based, I managed to register and use it without any problems. Once awhile, I do experience a short lag but nothing longer than 10 seconds.

So, what do you think of Adobe Photoshop Express?

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On October 10, 2007, fans of Radiohead can choose to pay as little as 45 pence, about $1 USD, the credit card handling fees for Radiohead’s latest album, “In Rainbows”. Fans can choose to pay whatever price they feel like paying.

While this may cause a further shakeup of the music industry because other big artists may now demand better contract deals under threat of leaving and distributing music themselves like Radiohead. Soon, we may hear questions like why do we need Record Label, anyway? We can either create our own Record Label or sell it like Radiohead!

You can download “In Rainbows” album from October 10, 2007 onwards.

(Via ZeroPaid)

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