As much as I love my Apple iPhone 3GS, there is a lot of media resting in the devices storage that is simply yearning to be released to an audience. I have already reviewed a set of great earphones by Creative Labs, which are just wonderful for when you require a solitary music experience, but there is still the matter of sharing the entertainment within a room with your family and friends or for when you wish to dance around a bit to the melodic rhythms (don’t worry I won’t tell anyone if you don’t!).

The Creative ZiiSound D5 Bluetooth Wireless Speakers may have the answer, but not just for my iPhone, but other Bluetooth audio compatible hardware and anything else with a headphone socket. So that pretty much covers everything!

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Recently Steve Jackson’s Sorcery – The Shamutanti Hills released on the Apple iTunes App Store. This contains music composed by myself on the Yamaha Tyros3 keyboard. This is my first official original music release for a game and hopefully many more will follow. The soundtrack is mainly comprised of looping tunes set to a pretty rigid requirement by the game’s designers, however with the ending music, I was allowed to let my imagination take over utilising a pan flute and strings, so this is of course my favourite track . Very movie like and hopefully you will agree quite catchy.

Based on the best-selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook system, The Shamutanti Hills is Book One in Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! series. Your epic quest will take you across the mysterious hills to the cityport of Kharé, but only if you outwit the creatures, traps and wizardry you encounter along the way. Play as either a warrior or as a wizard. If you choose wizardry, your survival will depend on your knowledge of the Sorcery! Spell Book’s darkest secrets. With many other unique features to discover, Sorcery! is a true challenge for novice and veteran adventurers alike.

You can listen to a few of the tracks I composed for the title by visiting my Last.fm artist profile page.

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On this latest podcast episode, I appear as guest with Marty Greenwell as Rob Rymond hosts the latest discussion around the Microsoft Xbox 360 console and Sony PlayStation3 news and reviews on the renamed Monster Cast.

Console Monster is an Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation3 specific website with news, reviews, previews, forum, achievements and trophies database. They even have a very sleak iPhone app, which is downloadable on the Apple iTunes Store.

The title of the latest podcast is Monster Cast #5 – Are We Playing More Games?.

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Can you remember the days where businessmen would carry around their precious black leather filofax with a strong firm grip, which contained all their important and hard earned business contacts that was as much a statement as their fine choice in suits? Of course you can and now we are in the digital age of storing information we have a slight problem. Business Cards are still unfortunately as the name suggests just bits of card with business information printed on.

One day I am sure we will only need to carry around a single business card, so any person who wishes to share contact details can scan something that is nothing more than a bar-code or even better a universal application that will transfer your details to other devices regardless of the manufacturer. Until we reach this vision of heaven, we have to rely on our trusty collection of business cards, but I know there must be a better way of adding the information to an iPhone without manually tapping away on a touch screen. Introducing the WorldCard Mobile App.

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Imagine my horror when I realised that I received earphones for review! The reason for this is I absolutely hate anything sitting inside my ear, but a man has to do what a man has to do. Hesitantly I inserted each earphone into its corresponding auditory opening and amazingly all my fears of discomfort and pain evaporated.

Next job was to whip out my Apple iPhone 3GS and hear the all important sound quality and so started my love affair with the Creative Aurvana In-Ear2 Earphones.

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