Music Monday III

Today’s Music Monday selections are coming to us from Ben Moffett

If you’re not familiar with why we’re doing this, check out this post. There’s still plenty of time to register for the iTunes gift card giveaway. Enter here!

Applications
1.  RunKeeper: Great little application to track your walk. Also displays a map of your walk and keeps a history
2. Fox News: not an itunes app but the best source in news and it is formatted for iphone.
3. Pandora: of course, what can I say, the best way to listen to music.
4. ishoot: fun tank battle game that will keep you coming back for more.
5. scrabble: just like the real boardgame but you can play it with a friend across the room who has an iphone or in the next meeting with your clients.

Music  (.99) each
Don’t hate me but I’m going with some old ones…
1. Firehouse – Love of A Lifetime
2. Men at Work – Down Under
3. Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy
4. Dire Straits – Money For Nothin
5. Lifehouse – Hanging by a Moment

March Madness 09

Click the links below to see who we picked in our 2009 NCAA Tournament Brackets!

Tom’s Bracket • Joe’s Bracket • Jim’s Bracket

We’ll be sure to let you know who wins!

Music Monday: Part II

Today’s Music Monday selections are coming to us from Ben’s wife, Jodee.

If you’re not familiar with why we’re doing this, check out this post. There’s still plenty of time to register for the iTunes gift card giveaway. Enter here!

Applications
1.  Pocket God: $.99  – A great game where you can torture little islanders. It’s addictive and fun.
2. The Oregon Trail: $5.99 – Classic game where you try to keep your frontier people alive.
3. Touchgrind: $4.99 – A fun and different game where you can skate with your fingers.
4. Tweetie: $2.99 – A great interface for Twitter.
5. Distant Shore: $.99 – A fun twist on social networking – you walk along a beach and throw bottles in the water sending messages to different people.
6. Virtual Villagers: $1.99 – Try to keep your villagers alive by finding food, water and building shelter. This is a real time game.

Music  (.99) each
1. Mad World – Donnie Darko
2. Apologize (feat. OneRepublic) – Timbaland
3. Savin Me – Nickelback
4. Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) – Vertical Horizon
5.  Decode – Paramore
6. Hot N Cold – Katy Perry
7. You Found Me-  The Fray

100 Free Applications for Mac

Here is a great article for anyone that owns a Mac: 100 Free Useful Applications for Mac, Part 1. One of our personal favorites here is MindNode, an easy to use mind mapping application.

It looks like there will be a part two of this series coming out sometime next week with another list of useful Mac apps.

Music Monday: Part I

Here’s a little series we’re going to be running throughout our iTunes Gift Card Contest. We thought that it would be fun if we each put together a list of what we would do with the $25 iTunes gift card (even though we’re not eligible…hey, it’s still fun to dream, right?). On Mondays throughout the contest, we’ll be posting a list of music, iPhone applications, and video that each of us would purchase with $25 iTunes store credit.

If you haven’t entered for the drawing for the actual iTunes gift card yet, click here to learn how to get signed up.

I’m up first, so without further ado, here’s my list (in my case, these are all a selection of what I’ve got on my iPod Touch at the moment):

Applications

1. Bejeweled 2: $2.99 – Classic game of swapping jewels to get 3 (or more) in a row.
2. iShoot: $2.99 – Think Pocket Tanks, but on the iPhone.

Music (.99 each)

1. Washed by the Water (Acoustic version) – Needotbreathe
2. A Long December – Counting Crows
3. Dare You to Move – Switchfoot
4. Black Balloon – Goo Goo Dolls
5. Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
6. Desperately Wanting (Acoustic version) – Better Than Ezra
7. All for You (live) – Sister Hazel
8. The Heat – Needtobreathe
9. This is your Life – Switchfoot
10. When You Come Back Down – Nickel Creek
11. You Never Let Go – Matt Redman
12. You Are Here – Needtobreathe
13. Streets of Gold – Needtobreathe
14. One Headlight – Wallflowers
15. Run – Collective Soul
16. She Talks to Angels – The Black Crowes
17. Take Me Away – Lifehouse
18. Untitled Hymn – Chris Rice
19. Unwell – Matchbox 20

Win a $25 iTunes Gift Card from Drum!

To celebrate the launch of our new website, we decided we would hold a contest here on the blog and give away a shiny, new $25 iTunes gift card. To enter, you have to do two things:

First, you’ll need to do one of the following:

• Follow Drum Creative on Twitter and post a tweet with a link back to this post.
• Mention Drum Creative in a post on your blog and link back here.
• Become a fan of Drum Creative on Facebook.

(you can always do more than one of these things too…we’d love you for it, but it won’t increase your chances of winning)

Second, and most importantly, you must leave a comment on this post to let us know where you are completing one of the first three requirements.

Do both of these and you’re in. The deadline to enter is April 30th, 2009. A winner will be chosen at random on May 1st, 2009 and will be notified via email. Employees of Drum Creative, their familes and their pets are not eligible to participate. To everyone else, GOOD LUCK!

Drum Web Announcement

If you have visited DrumCreative.com recently, then you have no doubt noticed that there have been some substantial changes to our site. We have been working away on this new design and we are now excited to say that we are ready to officially release it out into the world. Now that we’re going public with the new look, we wanted to point out a couple of key features.

If you’re reading this post, then you are already staring at the most significant change – the addition of a Drum Creative blog. Watch this space for updates on what is going on in the wide world of Drum. While we’re talking about social web applications, we would also like to point out that you can now follow us on Twitter and check out our latest pictures on flickr.

Another section of our site that has been updated is our portfolio. Head on  over and browse through some of our past projects and be sure to click on each of the images to zoom in on each thumbnail. On some of these, you can also flip the image over to see some additional information.

So take a few minutes to look around and be sure to check back often!

March Thundersnow

Every blog in Greenville is exploding with news of our Thundersnow last night. We have been informed that a “Thundersnow” is a rare thunderstorm with snow falling as the primary precipitation instead of rain.

When we finally made it into the office this morning, we discovered that we had been attacked by small creatures from another design agency, or maybe just the woods next to the office. Notice the small tracks leading to the front door. You can’t see them but they were all over the front parking lot. Our neighbors told us that they had spotted a small fox wondering around our parking lot at night a while back, so now we have physical evidence.