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Get Song Lyrics Added to Your YouTube Videos

GeekSugar — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:10:26 -0700

I'm a sucker for listening to all my new favorite songs on YouTube, so when I saw this neat tip on Lifehacker, I wanted to share it with all of you! To get started you'll need Firefox and this Greasemonkey extension. The Googlesystem Blog explains that this Greasemonkey script creates a section titled "lyrics" below the video's description, and will display them when expanded (you'll notice different lyrics services for the song). So now when you see Scarlett Johansson's new music video, you'll be able to sing along!

Picture Perfect Tech: Headphones in 'Music and Lyrics'

GeekSugar — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:00:07 -0800

No, I didn't just pick this one because Hugh Grant is deliciously British and charming. In Music and Lyrics Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore play a washed up singer (Grant) who is given a few days to compose a chart topping hit, and a younger woman who plays his muse (Barrymore). Front and center in most of the musical scenes in the movie are the ever-classy Ultrasone PROline 550 S-Logic Headphones.

Word is the PROline 550 has a 50mm heavy duty driver which produces a tight and powerful bass, so they are great if you're listening to a lot of drum-based music (no offense, but does anyone think Hugh Grant could sing along to drum-based music? He may be charming, but I'm not buying that!) Also, because of the headphone's closed construction design, external noise is minimized, which makes them ideal for the studio. For a gallery of delightful images from the movie and more about the headphones, read more

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The Ultrasone Proline 550 Stereo Headphones are on sale for $239.

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Download of the Day: GimmeSomeTune

GeekSugar — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:05:15 -0700

I swear I can listen to a song over 100 times and still manage to mess up the words, or make up my own - kinda like the Romy and Michele's High School Reunion scene when they sing Footloose (Footloose manages to turn into cut loose).

Because I regularly watch music videos on YouTube, I've used this Greasemonkey extension to help me with song lyrics, but what about my iTunes library? Thankfully a reader has submitted a neat download to the Download of the Day group to help this geek out. Jmichelle's fave lyric provider is called GimmeSomeTune. She says:

I absolutely have to have lyrics to my songs whenever possible and with over 3,000 songs, it's irritating to put in so many Google searches. GimmeSomeTune does an automatic search for every song without lyrics as soon as it begins playing. It also searches for album art as well. And it's totally free (although they do ask for an optional donation).

Do you have a download that you'd love to share? Join our Download of the Day group and share your favorite download, and tell us why you love it and it could be featured on GeekSugar. Here's a detailed guide to posting questions or posts to groups if you are new to the PopSugar Community.

Google Search Now Displays Audio Tracks For Song Queries

GeekSugar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:44:06 -0700

Ever since my first Google search, life as I knew it changed forever. Google is really revving up their search engine thanks to small but helpful enhancements like being able to find your friends on social networking sites or by refining your search results by date and time.

And now that Google has teamed up with companies like imeem, Pandora, Lala, Sony Music, EMI, and WB, they are now able to deliver a new music search feature that makes it easy to discover music and listen to the track from one of these partner companies.

Even if you don't know the artist or the song name, you can type in some lyrics, and Google web search will do its best to search songs that have those particular words. If you try your own Google music search and the audio tracks don't appear, be patient because Google is slowly rolling out the feature across the US over the next day. Although if you do want to take it for a test drive, you can do so here.

To see a video demo of Google Music, just read more.

Hit Me on Twitter Music Video Is All About the Tweets

GeekSugar — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:55:52 -0700

You know Twitter has made it to the big leagues when a music video essentially dedicated to the microblogging networking site gets MTV airtime. I got a real chuckle when I tuned in and saw Mistah F.A.B. rhyming about his followers and the lovely ladies he plans to "hit up" on Twitter. Here's a snip it of the song's juicy lyrics:

First it was Black Planet, then MySpace, then Facebook took over my place, whoa, now I'm stuck on Twitter.

Are you stuck on Twitter enough to make this your Summer jam?

The Guild Cast in Cheeky Video About Online Avatars

GeekSugar — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:46:32 -0700

With the third season of the web based series The Guild starting August 25, the fantasy MMO characters are appearing in a new music video called, "Do You Want to Date My Avatar?" With The Guild star Felicia Day serenading us with lines like, "You'll never see my actual face, our love will be in virtual space." The video basically mocks all of the stereotypes associated with people having really hot avatars in role playing games like World of Warcraft. The beat is catchy and the lyrics are even better.

BillieTweets.com Launches a Twitter Tribute to Michael Jackson

GeekSugar — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:59:51 -0700

As the world continues to come to grips with the death of Michael Jackson, the loving tributes are starting to pop up.

The geekiest thus far (and my personal favorite) is Billie Tweets, a website that streams Jackson's hit Billie Jean and then matches real-time tweets to it.

So that means that if you're on Twitter and one of your tweets contains a lyric to the song, it may be getting pulled to Billie Tweets right then to complete the song.

It's the ultimate meme - while still managing to be a touching sentiment.

I Heart You Online: Sweetest Digital Love Song Ever

GeekSugar — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:40:21 -0700

There are a lot of cute songs about Internet love, but few are actual great songs you'd listen to more than once - the kinds of songs that get stuck in your head, that you desperately want to download so you can listen to over and over. "I Heart You Online," sung by two beautiful, angel-faced and accented girls and accompanied by the ukulele (the unofficial meme instrument), is the rare song that is a wonderful tune in its own right. I predict big things for these girls. (And you'll love the lyrics if you've ever had an Internet crush).

Take a Cute Break: "Because of YouTube"

GeekSugar — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:35:33 -0800

Remember Kelly Clarkson's song "Because of You," her ballad dedicated to learning hard lessons? Well, some young YouTube stars have reworked the song to gush about what they've gotten out of the video-posting site. Sure, the lyrics are a little reaching, the tones a little pitchy, but man are these little girls cute.

Emoticarolers Make Christmas Carols Cool

GeekSugar — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:00:52 -0800

Emoticarolers is the kind of thing that should be too silly for me to be into, and yet, here I am, powerless to their cute yellow faces and midi voices (or maybe I was just swayed by the fact that the parody lyrics the site offered me for "Deck the Halls" were "Deck the Halls With Flat Screen TVs").

You pick four carolers and then a classic holiday song (original or parody lyrics), and then you can send around your custom "card."

It's way less annoying than strangers showing up to your door singing while you awkwardly stand there bobbing your head.