Amazon.com music has released a new feature or grouping of music on their website. It’s called “As Heard On”, and the entire section features those songs you’ve probably heard on TV shows, commercials and movies. Many of the songs featured now are the original artists performing those songs you’ve been hearing one of the American Idol contestants singing every week.

Amazon's "As Heard On" website homepage

Without a doubt a great way for Amazon.com to capitalize on the popularity of American Idol, and continue getting their own piece of the downloaded music marketshare from iTunes and Apple.

Above and beyond American Idol though, how many times have you been watching TV and heard a song in the background of a scene or in a commercial and wondered what it was or who sang it. Perhaps my best example is the old eToys.com commercial that featured “Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

What Amazon.com could really do to make this a great service though would be to allow you to search for songs by show title or commercial topic. Perhaps even putting in a date and time of the show you were watching to try and find the associated song. Now THAT would be cool. Almost like song tagging available on HD Radio and other services.

Go uncover some great music that was “As Heard On” by Amazon.com yourself

A friend recently shared this video with me. I remember when it first aired on TV for Apple and enjoyed it then. Always a good reminder to push the envelope and question the status quo.

I’m one of the weird ones. You know you’ve seen them. The people that are always in the theater 20 minutes before show time. The only time I’m not is when I’m with someone else hat has not shared my desire to be early or my love for watching all the trailers.

I love movie trailers. I’m not sure if it’s the idea of getting a “sneak peak” at something or just seeing what’s coming down the Hollywood pipeline for our future enjoyment.

For that same reason then, I absolutely LOVE the Movie Trailers section on Apple’s website. Although they’ve made it somewhat of a challenge to find it now, I always have to use the search form and search for “movie trailers”. Or if you just want to type some more you can use www.apple.com/trailers

Right now I’m looking forward to a new Jim Carey movie and Nicholas Cage’s new one.

Uncover a future film for yourself at www.apple.com/trailers

I’m not one of the few chosen or select few that has an iPhone, but the won’t keep me from letting you know about a slick little website that lets iPhone users really showcase and highlight the photos they can take with their iPhone.

The website that’s going to make that happen is Snapture.

What exactly is the goal behind Snapture and the folks that develop it though?

At Snapture, we believe that mobile photography is the way of the future. But although more and more people are taking pictures on their cell phones, we think the tools available to take such photos are still relatively simplistic. Our goal is to help people take better mobile pictures by enhancing the quality and sophistication of the camera software on your cell phones.

Snapture just loads your iPhone with a collection of additional features and controls that make taking photos more fun and more interesting. Just check-out this feature list to get an idea of what you can do: geotagging, color modes, multi-shots, thumbnail mgmt, gesture zoom, auto-rotation, set touch zone, quiet mode and more.

With Snapture and your iPhone, maybe you folks will actually move another step closer to having one device that really can do just about everything you need.

Now, go hang-up your phone and start taking some pictures with Snapture!

This is a familiar site in a lot of malls and retail centers today with the release of the new iPhone. My question is, “Is it really worth it?” It’s just a phone!

Have you been waiting in line? Do you have a story to share? Photos to share? I’d love to see them!

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