Pop/rock Band Jag Star Wins ‘Next Big Hit’ Competition — Now Featured Artist on iTunes Music Store

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 May 2011 02:09 Written by admin Sunday, 1 May 2011 02:09

Pop/rock Band Jag Star Wins ‘Next Big Hit’ Competition — Now Featured Artist on iTunes Music Store

Knoxville, TN (PRWEB) July 17, 2007

Pop/rock band Jag Star was just named the winner of the NEXT BIG HIT competition. As a result, they are now featured on the front page of iTunes for a week. “This is priceless!” says lead singer and songwriter Sarah Lewis. “We are thrilled to get this kind of exposure and we’ve definitely worked our butts off to get here!” Their song, “Missed Out”, from their latest album, “The Best Impression of Sanity”, was the winning song and is available now for download on iTunes.

Thousands of independent artists submitted their music for the contest. 144 finalists were played in the competition. Jag Star stood tall above all of them as the final winner was determined by a mix of voting and listener reviews. Lewis continued, “Next Big Hit has been great to us — we’ve made a lot of new fans by being featured on their podcasts!”

“We were hoping the system would lead to a winner that was commercially accessible as well as talented musically. Our winner certainly meets our hopes for the contest. In fact, Jag Star’s album is one of my favorite albums of the past year or two,” said DJ Copperhead, host and producer of Next Big Hit. “I have no idea how the entire major label industry has ‘Missed Out’ on how undeniable talented AND commercial this act is… I hope that is about to change,” he added.

The contest promised the winning artist a feature on the front page of the iTunes music store for a week as well as promotional packages from Ariel Publicity and Evolution Promotions.

“I see so many contests that offer a little cash or, worse… a [meaningless] ‘record deal’. We wanted to offer a contest where the prize would be something that could be meaningful to an artist’s career on their own terms,” said Dave Shapiro, co-producer of Next Big Hit. “Evolution and Ariel do fantastic work for indie artists, and iTunes is now one of the top five music retailers in America. A front page feature on their website is like having distribution of your CDs in every Wal-Mart with an End-Cap in every store.”

The contest is just the icing on the cake for an act that has racked up many accolades and film/tv placements on their own. Over the past 6 years, they’ve released 3 albums independently, with songs featured all over television including NBC, MTV, Lifetime, Disney, Oxygen, A & E, Travel, ABC Family, etc… They’ve toured the U.S. and 15 countries, including playing concerts overseas for the U.S. troops in Afghanistan. They’ve had support from commercial radio, a rare achievement for an indie band. Lewis was recently named the new face of “wet ‘n wild” cosmetics and appears in their national ad campaign, currently seen in Cosmo, Seventeen, Jane, and Lucky magazines. She has won numerous songwriting competitions, and currently composes background music for a new MTV show. Jag Star has shared the stage with Joan Jett, Lifehouse, Dashboard Confessional, Michelle Branch, Bowling For Soup, etc.. and this summer they will play concerts to their ever growing fanbase in New York, Texas, Connecticut, California and more….

For more information on the Knoxville, TN -based band, visit their myspace page Jag Star on Myspace or their official website Jag Star Official Website.

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iPhone App Store vs Android Market

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 12:45 Written by admin Wednesday, 27 April 2011 12:45

I compare the iPhone App Store vs the Android Market. Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Apps are a huge part of buying any smartphone and so is the way you get them. Apple with the iPhone and iPod touch App Store has a very different way of doing it compared to Google and the Android Market so today I compare both to help determine which is the best for you including the the selection of apps, the pricing and the interface to access the store.
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Future Apps Announces its Speak it! Text to Speech Application is now on the Mac App Store

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 03:59 Written by admin Tuesday, 26 April 2011 03:59

Future Apps Announces its Speak it! Text to Speech Application is now on the Mac App Store

Speak it! for the Mac

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 12, 2011

Future Apps, one of the leading iOS development companies, announces entry into the Mac Platform with its Speak it! Text to Speech App. Speak it! is part of the only 1,000 apps to make the Mac App Store launch, and is now available for download. Future Apps is proud to take its four years of iOS development experience, and start creating industry leading applications for the Mac Platform as well.

Speak it! has been the best selling and highest reviewed text to speech app on the iOS platform, and Future Apps has taken the best features and molded them into a ground up remake for the Mac platform. Speak it! for the Mac uses the same industry leading voices that have made it such a great hit on iOS, which reproduce speech that is so clear and natural sounding you will have a hard time telling it is a computer speaking! You can use Speak it! for anything from a speech assistive app for people with vocal disabilities, to a personal document reader. Speak it! can read any sort of text you can select and copy from any other application including emails, word documents, and web articles.

Speak it! for the Mac also has some unique features just on the Mac Platform, and one our users will really love is called “Voice Shaping.” Voice Shaping will allow users to finely tune the supplied voices by changing their pitch and tone. This has the effect of producing endless variations of a voice, making it sound higher or lower pitched, and more masculine or feminine.

“We are very excited to make the move to the Mac OS Platform with one of our best selling iOS apps,” says Future Apps founder and CEO John Stefanopoulos. “The Mac App store is poised to create the same type of success for developers and customers alike that the App Store did for the iPhone in 2008, and we are happy to be part of it once again.”

Speak it! for the Mac is available immediately for download on the Mac App store for an introductory price of just $ 4.99*. Stay tuned for even more exciting Mac OS applications from Future Apps in the coming year!

*Mac App store requires a Mac with Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6.

Mac App Store Link

About Future Apps Inc:

Future Apps is a software base company currently dedicated to providing cutting edge software solutions to the iOS platform, and now the Mac OS platform as well! We pride ourselves in creating rich applications designed at creating new folds of what is possible with mobile and desktop software. We strive ourselfs to create applications which are simple and easy to use, yet provide an immersive user experience. This is the design philosophy infused in our apps.

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