music player

I'm totally torn by the Reppo II Backpack boombox I saw on Yanko Design — on one hand, it's a cool hardshell design, white, great for hanging out outside with friends — but then I think about other people using them, and I can just imagine being beyond annoyed as I am reading my book with my headphones on David Lee Roth or what have you comes blasting into my little bubble. It happens now with people doing this with their cell phone speakers, and I want to tear my hair out!

So if you get the hot Reppo II, I caution you as I caution Long Island Ice Tea drinkers: Have fun, but be careful.

Oh, how I hate tabbing back and forth from Firefox to iTunes. It just takes so much time! If you're a geek, you know our goal is to make things easier for ourselves, not to control + tab our life away. Thankfully, we have FoxyTunes, to allow us to control our music player — right from the convenience of our browser.

To learn how FoxyTunes works, read more

With gold being one of this year's trendy colors, I can't help but be attracted to gold gadgets and gold laptop cases. So when I saw this CD Combo Player on 7 Gadgets, I needed to learn more— even though I'm somewhat over the whole boombox thing. This media player boasts the same white and gold accents of the stylish Dwayne Wade Sidekick and can play CD-R/RW cd's, has twenty preset stations and features an AM/FM radio. Priced at $40.

Songbird is the latest chic desktop web player that will scan your hard drive, taking your personal and web music libraries and combining them into one user-friendly audio player zone. Once all your MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, and other files are organized, you can start creating personal playlists and rock the night away. Built off the Mozilla engine, Songbird can run on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

Download Songbird from Songbirdnest.com.