Cool Hunting

Coverflow
iTunes is great for keeping all your music organized but it's oddly lacking a visual browsing component. Sometimes you just want to flip thru album covers and discover an old favorite or even something new. Coverflow is tight little application for the Mac that presents a simple interface for searching and browsing your music by album cover. When you find something to listen to...

phling!
phling! is a new mobile service that lets you tune in to the music stored on your computer (PC only for the time being) from wherever you are. To use it you download applications to both your mobile phone and your PC. So long as the PC is turned on and connected to the internet you can stream your music files to your phone....

Magical 8bit Plug
Like digitally adding record scratches, the Magical 8bit Plug is a hi-tech way for producers to add lo-fi sound. Developed by YMCK, a Japanese 8-bit jazz ensemble, the free software works with both Mac- and Windows-based programs to create unique waveforms that mimic synthesized video game soundtracks. via Make Also on Cool Hunting: CH Video: 8-Bit v5, Mark Denardo on CH Video, The International...

NIN + Garageband
Whether you're a Trent Reznor fan or not, this is a pretty damn inventive way to release a single. We now know Trent Reznor is a Macintosh user, because he has released a single as a GarageBand file, for personal remixing. This is a promotion for the Nine Inch Nails upcoming release "With Teeth", which will be available May 3rd. "'What I'm giving you...

PodShanking
How many times have you wanted to just transfer music directly from one iPod to another? Modgods has described a simple way to do it with minimum software and hardware required. They even named it: PodShanking. Their answer requires patience (the transfer happens by playing the song in real time), but it works....