Convert YouTube videos to MP3s Instantly

Video2Mp3 – a free service.


Found a song video on YouTube that you want to convert to an MP3 file? Use Video2Mp3 – a free service that creates a MP3 out of the video.

Provide the YouTube URL of the video and download the MP3 generated in a link at Video2Mp3.

Listen to Free Music on Grooveshark

Listen to music online, at Grooveshark. Now, with an improved interface and better features. 


Grooveshark, a very popular website for listening to free music, has revamped it’s interface and offers a much more pleasant experience when searching for and listening to new music.

You can listen to the latest music from various genres, create playlists, browse through other songs on the website, upload your own songs and do much more without paying any fee at all.


Grooveshark streams over 50 million songs, and offers great recommendations through it’s Grooveshark Radio service. While listening to a song in Grooveshark, click ‘Radio’ to find more music on the same lines.

If you are a budding musician yourself, then you can promote your music on Grooveshark. The website has thousands of registered users.

You would find a great audience to obtain feedback on your music. To know more, visit Grooveshark Artists.

The service does charge a small amount, if you would prefer to have an ad-free experience on the website.

Grooveshark also has social networking-like services. You can interact with fellow Grooveshark users, and find better music in the same way.

Related Reading: More Ways To Listen To Music Online

9 Useful Facebook Applications

Nine Facebook applications, that provide a lot of uses.


Facebook applications are useful tools created by third-parties that you can use in the social network to do more stuff. Listed below are 10 very useful applications that you must use:

1. Twitter


Link your Facebook account with your Twitter account through the Twitter application. With this application, whatever you tweet in Twitter would be posted as your status in Facebook. Access the Twitter application now.

2. Muziic


Muziic is a great way to listen to music playlists while browsing Facebook. It is a simple application, that looks like a multimedia player, and is also easy-to-use. You can also use it to watch music videos from YouTube. Get Muziic on Facebook now.

3. Picasa


You can upload photos from Google’s image sharing tool Picasa directly to Facebook by getting the Picasa application that inserts a Facebook link in the freeware. Access the application here.

4. Zoho Online Office


Share and access your Zoho Online Office documents, spreadsheets or presentations from Facebook itself. The Zoho Online Office application allows you to share and collaborate or edit your documents that have been created from Zoho, the popular online office service.

5. Files


Files is a very useful Facebook application. With Files, you can use Facebook to save, share and access any documents, photos or videos within the social network. The service is powered by Box.Net and offers upto 1 GB space for free. Access Files now.

6. my Lists

Create and maintain To-Do lists with the my Lists Facebook application. You can create useful lists that remind you of work to be done. Access the my Lists application here.

7. Facebook Mobile


Facebook Mobile is a service to access your Facebook account from your mobile. It provides a decent, mobile-adapted interface that allows you to perform many of the Facebook functions from the web service. Visit Facebook Mobile to do that, from your GPRS browser.

8. Calendar

Facebook Calendar is a useful application to maintain schedules, dates, meetings and everything else on the social network. You can use the application to keep track of events and birthdays also. Access Facebook Calendar now. [Note: There are also other Calendar applications in Facebook]

9. My Flickr


My Flickr connects your Facebook account with your Flickr photo stream. Friends on Facebook can view and comment on your Flickr photos without having to go to Flickr. Activate My Flick here.

Related Reading: More Facebook Tips

Google introduces Music Search

Listen to song previews in Google Search’s new feature.


When you search for a music album or a specific song in Google, the search engine will return you results that include an audio preview of the song that you can listen to right on the page.

Google will also provide links to listen to the song on Pandora, imeem or Rhapsody. This search feature helps you discover music more easily and directly.

[Via Google Blog]

Related Reading: The Complete Guide to Google Search

Discover Mood-Defined Music With Musicovery

A simple, interactive web radio service.


Musicovery is a simple internet radio service that helps you discover music depending on your current mood.

You can also discover songs that are not very popular yet, but might suit your mood at the current moment.

You can select from various genres and find a direct link to play songs. Musicovery featured in TIME magazine’s Best Websites of 2009.

Related Reading: Listen to Music Online

Get Music Lyrics In Your Media Player As You Listen

Download Lyrics Plugin.



Lyrics Plugin is a great freeware utility that appears as an add-on in your Winamp or Windows Media Player and automatically loads lyrics of the song you are currently playing. You don’t have to search for lyrics anymore.

Lyrics Plugin fetches and displays them for you. In case Lyrics Plugin fails to obtain the lyrics, you can add the lyrics yourself. 

It is available for the above mentioned media players currently. Lyrics Plugin even fetches lyrics of songs in other languages (like Hindi) written in English. 

Download Lyrics Plugin for WinAmp and Windows Media Player.

Listen to Music Online

Four Easy-to-Use Sites


Here are three great sites that provide free music that you can listen to while on the internet itself. They are easy to navigate and work with, and make listening to music online very simple.

1. Last.fm

Last.fm is an Internet radio site, based in the UK. It provides users access to hundreds of radio stations and helps build a profile to identify your music tastes. Once that is done, it recommends similar tracks and artists. Last.fm is well-equipped with social media services across the Internet and allows you to create groups of shared interests.

2. Grooveshark

Grooveshark is a music streaming site that allows you to play music instantly online. It has a simple search engine and a list of the most popular tracks, with which you can create a playlist and start listening. Grooveshark also recommends music.

3. Jango 

Jango is a simple music streaming site, where you can enter the artist of your choice and find a list of radio stations currently playing that artist. Listen online instantly, and also be provided with similar artists to listen to.

4. Songza

Songza is another simple Internet jukebox, that provides a simple search bar and an attractive interface to play your favorite music online. You can easily share your favorite Songza songs on social media like Facebook and Twitter and also view any related YouTube videos of the song on the site itself.



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