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Breathe New Life into your Old Gadgets

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With all the buying that goes on this time of year, our aging gadgets seem older, more out-of-date, and just plain obsolete in the face of all the shiny new toys glimmering on the display rack—which, of course, is part of what motivates us to pry open our wallets for newer and better stuff. But this year, instead of forking over more cash to the likes of Jobs and Gates for their newest toys, we’re taking a look at several ways to make your old gadgets new again. From the iPod and Xbox to a run-of-the-mill PC, chances are you’ve got something lying around the house that could use a free or cheap upgrade.

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Led Zep rocking the house in 2007

Led Zeppelin takes it way back by opening O2 reunion concert with 1969 début hit Good Times, Bad Times.

Man what an awesome show that would have been. Please come to the US and tour. Anyone got 5000 bones to loan me for some tickets?

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Lifehacker.com - Online video music lessons

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Windows/Mac only: Music instruction site Show Me How To Play takes an iTunes-like approach to video lessons, charging 99 cents for downloadable “Multiplayer videos” that let users watch skilled session groups move through a song, one instrument at a time. Even if you get by fine with free lessons, the site has a nice collection of mostly-free features dealing with the music business, gear choices and other musician-friendly topics. Using the Multiplayer videos requires a sign-up, Quicktime and Windows XP/Vista or OS X 10.3.4 or later.

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Lifehacker.com - 20 best iPod utilities

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With a new generation of iPods on the market this holiday season, your reliable old iPod may not seem as shiny as it once did. But with the help of third party applications and utilities, you can unlock tons of useful functionality you never knew was there and revive that aging iPod so it doesn’t look quite so bad next to its successors. Whether new or old, the following 20 iPod utilities can help you get the most from your iPod.

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Great places to get free and legal tunes

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Music is nice, but free music is even better. With all the talk of DRM, lawsuits and the RIAA we tend to forget that there’s still a lot of completely free, legal music out there that just awaits to be taken. Today we bring you 12 top destinations for free and legal music on the net.

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