One of the toughest things in band management is getting that first recording contract. Whether you are looking at independent record producers or a big name record producer, it’s just not easy. But now there is hope for the up-and-coming band who wants to produce an album: SellaBand, the website! By the way, if you’re still looking for a good band name, you can check out this band name generator, or this band name generator, or even this band name generator (no typing required on the last one!)

A new online free sex offender search tool allows you to search a list of “sex offenders in my area.” The free sex offender search cross-references a list for registered sex offenders with an online mapping system, so that you can find any registered sex offender on the sex offenders list anywhere within a 1 to 20 mile radius of any location (such as your home, your child’s school, etc.).

Rumor has it that legend Guy Kawaski has launched his own rumor site, and guess what! The rumors are true!

The Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner (not to be confused with the SnapScan scanner by Agfa or any model of Fuji scanner – we’re talking about the Fujitsu ScanSnap USB scanner here) is a wonder to behold. With both a Mac version (Fujitsu ScanSnap S500M) and a PC version (Fujitsu ScanSnap S500), double-sided black and white or color scanning of paper sizes up to 8 1/2 wide – at up to 20 pages a minute – the Fujitsu ScanSnap makes it easy to turn all of your paper documents into searchable computer files! And it’s one of the easiest ways, bar none, to get a document into a file to email or put on a website.

We all knew it was heading in this direction, but we didn’t think it would come from a relative unknown. Zonbu announces the first computer that has everything – except – storage. You store all of your data – all of it – online, on the Zonbu servers.

The Pure Digital PSV-352 60 Minute and Pure Digital PSV-351 30-min Point & Shoot Camcorder are really catching on. But the software, while simple to use, is crippled, and worse, it emails your videos through Grouper.com, where Grouper grabs not only your video, but harvests the email addresses and creates an account for you, all without letting you know at the time!

This website gives you cash for old cellphones! That’s right, they will buy used cell phones, and give you cash for them! And they make it so easy, they even send you a free, postage-paid box to send your old cell phones back to them!

An article this week by the Wall Street Journal blares out that “Hackers Can Now Deliver Viruses via Web Ads”. It’s not like the WSJ to go the sensationalist route, so we can only assume that the reporter doesn’t usually cover the Internet security beat. Regardless, this type of fear mongering is irresponsible at best, unforgivable at worst.

Forget plain old mobile phone tracking. FlexiSpy is a cell phone tapping and spying software that, once slipped on to your cell phone, sends all of the data from your cell phone to the person spying on you. It also allows them to turn on your cell phone’s microphone so that they can remotely listen in on what you are doing, and on your calls! It currently works with all Nokia 60, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones, and, according to FlexiSpy, more phones are being added all the time.

A company called WabiSabiLabi (Wabi Sabi Labi – pronounced ‘wobby sobby lobby’ or ‘wobi sobi lobi’) has announced that they have created an auction marketplace where security researchers and companies can buy and sell security vulnerabilities and hacks. Here’s what that means (we mean what “buying and selling security vulnerabilities means”, not what “Wabi Sabi Labi” means – although roughly speaking the Japanese ‘wabi sabi’ means respecting things which are authentic – from nature – by acknowledging their authentic beauty with the recognition that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect).

Here is the hands-on Apple iPhone review (sometimes called the Cingular iPhone or the AT&T iPhone – there is no Verizon iPhone Verizon users, for you – so sorry!) they don’t want you to see and you won’t see in any of the other Apple iPhone reviews: it’s the 7 bad things about the Apple iPhone that they don’t want you to know. Thanks to our exclusive interview with Shawn King, of the Your Mac Life Show, who spent time up close and personal with the Apple iPhone / Cingular iPhone / AT&T iPhone a week before its release, and to some digging on our part, we bring you the 7 things about the iPhone that you’ll never see in an Apple ad, because they don’t want you to know about it.

You know you should have a data backup solution to ensure that you have a harddrive backup – and in fact you may already have one or more backup solutions in place. But what about portable backup solutions – what about if you are on a trip, and your hard drive fails (as mine did last week?) Consider an iPod video for your portable backup data storage!

This has to be the ultimate in free call forwarding services. Grand Central, as part of their beta, is offering all of their “one number to ring them all” service completely free.

Need to do a computer backup? If you are looking for a remote backup program to provide secure offsite backup services – and if it offered free online backup services that would be even better – look no further! Here is the perfect offsite data backup solution – a free online data backup service that lets you do an automated offsite backup for free! That’s right, you can do a full computer backup online, using this automatic offsite backup service, and it’s absolutely free!

How many times have you wished that you had remote access to your computer, say remote access to your PC or Mac desktop, over the Internet, while you were away? Well, with this free remote access software and remote access service, now you can wish no more! Instead you can access your PC or Mac – in fact you can access as many computers as you want – across the Internet, all for free!