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10 “No Bull” Gifts for Taurus on their Birthday!

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Happy birthday, Taurus, or Taureans, to be exact. Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac, is symbolized by the bull, a symbol of strength, tenacity, virility, and power—all traits used to describe those born April 21 through May 21. But aside from their stubborn nature, Taureans have much more to them than just outward appearances.

They are patient, reliable, warm-hearted and enjoy the good things in life, whether earthly, financial, sensual or cultural. With such varied interests, spoiling your favorite Taurus on their birthday should really be quite simple. Here are 10 no-bull gifts to celebrate the special bull in your life!

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Dorm Room Chic

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Dorm life is a far cry from living at home, so any little comforts that can make the place feel more like you instead of the other forty people on your floor are important. First up, this chalkboard decal by Blackfin Graphics for the door to your room. Everyone has a dry erase board, take it up a notch and maybe make a few new friends in the process. Communication is key and who can resist stopping to write a hello on this?

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Curved Wooden Speaker Dock Makes you Feel Like Dancin’

Philips Fidelio DS9000 Primo Speaker Dock

Elegant curves that accentuate the sound. Beautiful, warm wood that embellishes the acoustics. The Phillips Fidelio DS9000 is as much about audio fidelity as it is about sleek sexy style. A looker from every angle, this speaker dock will not distract from your well appointed home as others might.

A wireless remote lets you control music from across the room and the included Fidelio app provides a built-in equalizer and various sound settings. There’s also multiple alarm settings so you can wake up to your favorite tunes enveloped in rich sound and this classy speaker looking back at you.

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$399 at Amazon • Read more about it

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Philips Fidelio DS9000 Primo Speaker Dock

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Jambox

JAMBOX by Jawbone blue

There’s a lot to look at. We get it. To help you out we’re calling attention to a gift you may have missed, or one we think you shouldn’t. This is the Something for Someone Spotlight.

No cords, no dock, just booming sound in the palm of your hand—Jambox is music to our ears. Quite literally, in fact.

Jambox is a great looking little speaker that streams audio wirelessly from any Bluetooth device from anywhere in a room. This means most phones and your iPad can all remotely send and control the sound coming out of this compact box—music, movies, games too.

We also love that it’s a portable speakerphone. With a powerful built-in mic you can share a conference call or a video chat with just this little guy on the table. Oh, and it comes in four colors.

Read more about it • $199 at Best Buy

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JAMBOX by Jawbone blue

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Hear your music with all new ears

SRS iWow


SRS iWOW plugin for iTunes improves audio by leaps and bounds

More music than ever is available at your fingertips; between all those MP3s you stumbled across back in Napster’s heyday and the present-day instant gratification of the iTunes Music Store/Amazon’s MP3 store (not to mention streaming radio), you’ve got days and days of music at your disposal.

Lost in this world of abundance and accessibility is fidelity. I’m not talking about the age-old debate of bit-rate encoding and vinyl vs CD vs MP3—just the sound coming out of your off-the-shelf Mac’s speakers regardless of its original format. Want to improve what you hear like magic? SRS iWOW is the trick up your sleeve.

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Number 9, Number 9, Number 9

A big day for Beatles fans: Remastered and Rock Band are here

Step right this way

Let no foul word be spoken of The Beatles today—9-9-09 we have been waiting for you.

As a second-generation Beatles fan who sat on the floor with Dad’s crate of LPs and Koss headphones, these four British icons, their music and influence have massive significance in my life. So can it if you’re meh about The Beatles—I love this day.

Rock Band

Play any one of the previous incarnations of the game and mention of a possible Beatles version will make you giddy.

For a game that’s a fair challenge in story mode and the life of the party when your friends get together, adding John, Paul, George and Ringo, their likeness, venues, instruments and three-part harmony into the mix is sure to be the best thing that happens to your living room this year.

If you haven’t seen the trailer, do and if it’s not on your wishlist yet, click.

Remastered

The Beatles, in stereo. Also released today, digitally re-mastered versions of the Beatles core catalog. After a four year process in Abbey Road Studios in London, everything from Please Please Me to Let It Be, with the addition of Past Masters, has been tweaked and fine-tuned to be better than they’ve ever been and all in stereo for the first time.

The albums are available individually or as a box set, packaged with the original UK album art, liner notes, rare photos and a short documentary about each album.

Each album is available for $13, the Stereo Box set is $180 and RockBand’s software and bundles range from $54 on up to $250.

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Coloring in the key of indie

OMG, it’s the Indie Rock Coloring Book

They’re all rock stars

When a rockstar illustrator collaborates with a rockstar non-profit to make the Indie Rock Coloring Book we can’t help but want to grab our 64 and toast our sippy cups.

The Yellow Bird Project is a unique, and frankly quite awesome organization that brings indie musicians, charities, and artists together to produce the raddest, most philanthropic tshirts you’ve ever seen.

Now for the first time, they’ve made a coloring book. They teamed up with artist Andy J. Miller who’s been conceptually working on the project for two years.

Within the lines

The book is full of hand-illustrated drawings and activity pages (yes mazes and connect-the-dots) created in tribute to indie rock bands. There’s a maze that leads to The Shins “Young Pilgrim” and a page for drawing new hairstyles on the members of Rilo Kiley. MGMT, Bloc Party, Bon Iver, The National—the list goes on.

Profits benefit the Yellow Bird Project and the charities they support.

Your crayons are begging you. The Indie Rock Coloring Book is available from loved publisher, Chronicle Books for $9.95.

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