I'm not dead, just haven't posted anything for a while because, well, i've had nothing to say. However i thought i needed to post about something that was brought to my attention last week regarding TunesPro, apparently the service is not as legal as i thought it first was.

I have contacted the marketing people who sent me the e-mail regarding TunesPro and after a few e-mails to check the legality of the service i stopped getting a reply. After this and other evidence i found on other websites i have come to my own conclusion that the service isn't legal.

This theory is backed up with other evidence i have found online that suggests TunesPro does not pay royalties to the record labels, which explains how charging 19 cent a song is doable.

So i think from this evidence it is fair to say that buying anything from TunesPro is as good as piracy, if not worse because you are paying to steal. If you really like the music that much, support the artists by buying from iTunes or streaming for free on We7.

Anyone who has purchased from TunesPro as a result of my article i can only apologies.

As many of you may see i like to write about music on this website, without music the world would be pretty boring and i love to share my musical taste with random members of the public, kind of like how i stand on street corners shouting band names and songs at passing cars.

In this post i'm going to review a website which is quite new to me called TunesPro, it's like iTunes but much cheaper, in fact much much cheaper, like more than 50% cheaper than iTunes, it may as well be free it's just that cheap.

So TunesPro sell music through their website, the music you download is 100% DRM free which means you can put it on your iPod, Zune (Pfft) or other MP3 player and it will work a treat. The site has over 5.5 million tracks to download from all of your favourite artists from past and present.

I wouldn't say i was the only person on the internet who has a problem and tweets about it in the hope that venting the anger will speed up the resolution, it never does. This type of action is something i find interesting because lately tweeting about your problems can help resolve them quickly.

This article is about how Twitter can be the tool that saves your brand as a company, it is also an article about how Twitter can help you solve problems faster, and lastly it's a post about the damage Twitter can have on your brand.

The inspiration for this article comes from my experience with companies on Twitter and personally the majority of companies i have had contact with have been very helpful and their help has restored hope in their brand, for others it has not been quite a picnic.

A new application has been brought to my attention for the iPhone and i think it is quite brilliant, not because of its many features, but because its sole feature and sole purpose of free iPhone to iPhone communication.

The application is called "Ping" and it allows free "text messaging" between iPhones using the push notification feature in iPhone 3.0, so if you sent massive amounts of text messages and want to save some of your allowance for non-iPhone users then this application is perfect.

I have been considering a review of my current hosting package for quite some time because i find that their service is often highly reliable but with some problems i have been having lately i didn't want my opinion to be skewed.

It has been a few month since then and i have decided that it is probably better for me to review them so that the same people don't get stung by the same problems that i did, time and time again.

Web Designers of world i have decided to make a post about great Firefox tools to help speed up your work flow. These are add-ons and plugins that typically help me with designing and coding so i thought i would share them with the world.

The tools i have suggested are tools to speed up debugging, general designing and then uploading.

Earlier this month i made a new blog post about my V Festival videos on YouTube and promised i would post the rest as and when i got round to editing them and uploading them.

I never did get the time to edit the videos so i decided to simply stick a label on the front and upload to YouTube. These videos are of Razorlight, The Wombats and some random trip i went on while recording, the videos are also a little incomplete because i think i MAY have started recording half way through the song.

I was never a massive music fan and very rarely listened to music outside of my comfort zone purely out of fear of being beat up by the local children. Obviously this was obscene because how would they get inside my house when i'm listening to the music, it's not theoretically possible. Over the last couple of years i have slowly expanded my music collection and included some new artists that i hadn't heard about and would normally never have given a chance.

The problem is some of these artists are very good and not enough people know about them or the artists is too well known and considered to be popular music and you indie folk simply wont give them a chance, so hopefully this article will open your eyes a little and get you listening to some new music.

Over the last few months i've been in the Will Ferrell kind of mood and been watching a lot of his awesome films. So i decided to would post about my favourite Will Ferrell films and why because, lets face it, he is a very funny man.

His career seemed to start out as quite a quiet one but since Anchorman he has blown up and at one stage he went through a stage of releasing several films a year, most of which went unnoticed until their DVD release. So without standing on roof tops crying out a long list of his releases and forcing people to go and watch them i decided i would blog about it.

Over the last few weeks i have been posting my review of V Festival 2009, which just happened to be the best weekend of my life. I have also posted reams of pictures onto Facebook and some of the pictures on the site but i have yet to even discuss the video footage i captured while at the event.

While at the event i captured some video from only a selection of bands i saw because i was saving the memory for The Killers, which also happened to be the band i got the least footage of (i was drunk and too busy screaming and dancing).

Well day one was a very good start to V Festival with Keane playing us out with a selection of their amazing songs and epic dance moves that consisted mainly of marching on the spot, running up and down the stage and standing on the speakers, nevertheless it was a brilliant day.

On Sunday we were faced with a brilliant lineup made up of some of the bigger names in the festival such as The Script, Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal, The Ting Tings, Razorlight, Calvin Harris and obviously The Killers headlining. So it was a difficult choice choosing which bands we went to see on the day, choices which seemed hard during the planning stage but on the day not so much.

Well it's been a week since V Festival 2009 kicked off so i thought i would post a list of the bands i ended up seeing and what i though of them.

Friday

Well the only thing that happened on Friday was were constructed a tent and carried too much food and beer across a field for about 1 mile. After that we started drinking (11am) and went into the arena for some looking around.

In here we met a new friend (pictured above) who told us all about his wacky job securing V Festival and how his job consists of a 20 hour shift stood in the same place making sure people don't get over a 20ft fence and run towards an empty stage. Which also had security. Odd. The guy was awesome though and despite his gangster watch he looks rather sophisticated.

As some of you may remember back in October of 2008 my beloved iPhone went into be fixed, this was done by Carphone Warehouse under the 12 month warranty because the screen went all weird and the accelerometer went all funny. Some of you may also remember i wrote several posts about how Carphone Warehouse sucked balls, today i follow that post with more Carphone warehouse failings.

So apparently something quite common with White iPhone 3Gs is cracking, these are small little hairline cracks in the areas where plastic is thin, typically around the speakers or headphone jack. My iPhone began to develop them around 4 months ago and it wasn't really a massive problem for me, however on Friday one of the cracks go worse, up to the point where the iPhone was almost in half.

Well it's been almost 1 week since i posted my disgust at The Carphone Warehouse for their poor customer service and repair package. Since then i have learnt new facts which only add to my annoyance.

First let me start by saying I have my iPhone back and it works like a treat but apart from that i'm disappointed at The Carphone Warehouse for their piss-poor customer service.

Sunday 2nd November 2008 - I gave them a call asking where my iPhone was and when i would have it back and they told me Wednesday which was 3 days overdue from the 14 days they promised me. Wednesday came along and i had heard nothing, but i waited for the length of the day to see if i got a text or phone as promised by the sales rep i called. No call ever came.

Let me set the scene. Sunday 19th October 2008, i spent the prior Friday in Burnley on one of my regular night outs taking various pictures with the piss-poor 2Mpixel camera on the iPhone 3G. Saturday i awake with a somewhat bad hangover (not the worst hangover), i come to marvel at the pictures i took the night before. I find myself looking shocked as my iPhone flips the photos around in any direction. The cause. A broken accelerometer inside the iPhone meaning that it didn't know what direction it was facing.