Labels are Gmail’s secret weapon that let you organize your inbox on your own terms. Once they’re set up, they do most of your message processing automatically and make it easier to skim through your inbox. If you’re not using labels in Gmail yet—or not using them with any kind of method—here are 6 ways you can start…
Today Campbell’s became the first large food company to announce that it would begin labeling all their foods that use GMO-ingredients. Should GMO labeling advocates start celebrating? Nope, and here’s why.
The 1966 television show Batman oozes charm and insanity in equal measure. Some of that delicious mixture can be found in the hilarious names Batman gives his devices, each helpfully labeled for the benefit of the audience. Because the internet is fabulous, here’s a Twitter account that’s started collecting every…
First came the ads, now SoundCloud has a deal with a bonafide record deal with Warner Music Group. SoundCloud has made it official with a real record company. It's really growing up.
A new way of verifying you’re a real person and not a spam machine might eliminate the chore of typing phrases like “beetle sausage” and so on, with a start-up looking to gamify the art of verifying you’re a human.
iPhone owners in the UK may need a pat on the back and another ale to make it through this news. According to the UK-based Performing Right Society, Apple's iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match service won't launch until 2012.
So iCloud might be free for users, then cost $25/year after that. Sounds fair. But what about the music labels? Apple's reportedly paying the four big labels between $25 - $50 million each, according to the New York Post.
Google Music! iTunes Live! While rumors have ebbed and flowed about streaming music from Cupertino and Mountain View for well over a year now, is it possible that HP is going to beat both to the punch?
Music publishers are none too pleased with Amazon's decision to launch a music locker service where anyone can store up to 5GB of MP3s and stream them back over any internet-connected computer or Amazon's Cloud Player Android app, without a cent going either to Amazon or copyright holders.
This egg had its nutritional facts printed on its shell by an Eggbot (a machine that prints stuff on ping pong balls, eggs, and other ball-shaped objects) and holy moly there's 71% of your daily value of cholesterol in one egg? Anyway! This is genius. I'd approve of printed-on nutritional facts for everything. Fruits,…
Labels can add a nice finishing touch to photographs. And the simple Labelbox app lets you easily choose among eight stylish label designs to slap onto any photos on your iOS device. It's free and available now. [iTunes]
AllThingsD is reporting that EMI Music has just signed a deal with Spotify. Counting Spotify's previous deal with Sony, the awesometastic music service now has two of the four major record labels locked up. The other two? Warner, who has said nice things about Spotify before, and Universal, who happens to be the…
Soon, when you buy a new light bulb you'll see a new Nutrition Facts-style label that details the numbers most important to you: how bright the bulb is, what the energy cost is, and when they'll burn out.
Amazon MP3 Store has a promotion called Daily Deal, where they prominently highlight an album that'll rake in sales for cheap—in exchange, labels have been giving them a one-day exclusive before the street date. Surprise, iTunes got pissed.
Those crazy cats at OK Go are tugging at our heartstrings yet again, with the release of a brand new video for the song This Too Shall Pass. It takes the Rube Goldberg machine concept to another level completely.
In response to fan uproar over being unable to embed OK Go's YouTube videos, lead singer Damian Kulash wrote the following letter. It's an eye-opening—and discouraging—inside account of how poorly the major labels manage the music you love.
Ian Shepherd, the same Mastering Engineer that claimed Metallica's latest album sounds better on Guitar Hero III, has recently come out and said that even the vinyl version sounds better than the CD. Keep in mind that the heavily distorted tracks on the album are the result of an editing process that sacrifices…
According to the New York Times, multiple label executives have confirmed that Apple is looking to expand its iTunes ringtone collection by June—far more than they have in the past. Their interests include both downloadable song snippets and ringback tones (new ringers). But apparently, the labels feel that these…
It appears Microsoft has struck a deal with Universal Music giving them a portion of the sales from every Zune they sell. This undermines the traditional strategy created by Apple where music labels received money from song downloads, and not player sales. Microsoft has also said that similar offers are on the table…
Siemens has developed a flexible color display screen that can be printed on something as thin as paper, cardboard, foil, or even plastic. It's also affordable enough — about $52 for 3.2 feet — to be included in everything from books and magazines to tickets and instructions on packaging labels. Apparently this…
