Express Your Geek :: Hall of Fame Website Launched

Los Angeles premier Hat boutique Hall of Fame recently launched their new site. Within the new site you’ll be able to make purchases online, check for new drops and check out their new blog. In commemoration to the new site, they’ve released two new fitteds dubbed the ‘H Lightning‘. Check out their new site and their fitteds.

Geek Chic :: Convert Files From the Web With Media Converter

Have you ever wanted to convert the audio track of your favorite YouTube video into an MP3 so you could play it on your iPod? Media Converter offers a free conversion service that’s easy on newbies, but expert enough for pros.

You convert video directly from portals like YouTube or Metacafe or upload from a file on your computer. Once you’ve chosen the file, Media Converter offers a simple wizard that lets you select what type of file you’d like to convert to, such as MP3, MP4, or even doc and PDF. Click a few times and the site does all the magic.

Geek Chic :: Use TuneUp to Clean Up Your iTunes

If you have an iTunes library that’s missing a few beats (you know, like artist info, track names, and album cover art), then you must head over to TuneUp. ‘Cause not only is it a drag to spend hours loading up your iTunes library with all your vintage CDs that you just can’t let go of (or albums that you’ve had burned to discs), but it’s even worse to have to go back and enter all the track names and artist info. Now, TuneUp does all that work for you.

For a limited, free membership, you can have TuneUp whip 100 songs and 50 album covers into proper shape. But if your library is pretty expansive, you can do a yearly or lifetime membership for $20 or $30 and let TuneUp analyze and enter your music’s data for life. But that’s not all that TuneUp does.

TuneUp also gives you concert alerts and reminders based on your music library, so you never miss a show by one of your favorite artists. And guess what? Alerts come free.

Geek Chic :: Google & Universal Music partner on new music video site

Universal Music Group and Google are now partners in the music-video business. The largest of the four top recording companies and YouTube’s parent company announced on Thursday that they are working together on Vevo, a new music and video entertainment service set to launch later this year. YouTube will handle the technology while Universal Music supplies the content. The two companies will share ad revenue. The companies said and at this point it appears that Universal’s content and artists will be the only label represented on the site. However, Doug Morris, Universal Music’s chief executive, said in a conference call with the media that he is in negotiations with other top record labels and is confident they will join. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on the same conference call that YouTube and Universal Music have renewed their existing licensing agreement. YouTube will continue to be licensed to allow visitors to use songs from Universal Music. Professionally made videos from the label will only appear on Vevo, the companies said. This is the first time that YouTube has launched a satellite Web site, Schmidt said but he added that he hopes there will be more. For Universal Music, the move means that Morris has obtained the standalone music-video service that he has long wished for. Ever since MTV became a cultural force and huge financial success by offering music videos on TV, the record industry realized that it goofed in thinking of music videos as a promotional tool. Morris has said that in this era of declining revenue in the sector, he doesn’t see anything as “promotional” and argues that music videos are worth cash.

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