The bad news? She’s not a girl.

The good news? Lala is a relatively new, amazing MP3 service that lets you listen to any song for free once, and then gives you the chance to buy that song for only 89 cents.

It doesn’t seem that they are too popular though. Popular songs like “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga and “Tik Tok” by Kesha have less than 25,000 listens. You would think that millions of people would be hopping on the Lala bandwagon and listening to music as they please. Don’t forget saving 40 cents for every song bought compared to iTunes.

The layout on the site is beautiful too. Music that you listen to streams at the top while you browse, and it has a very lightweight feel to it. One of the negatives is that you can only listen to a full song one time, but if you want to hear it on the website an unlimited number of times, you have to pay 10 cents for the web version. Ouch, a whole dime?

If you haven’t checked it out yet, head over to Lala.com and listen to a few songs. They have over 8 million in their database.

An iPhone app was in the works too, but it seems Apple isn’t too keen on allowing it. In fact, they bought the service for $80 million back in December. Hopefully it is available soon.

I got this myself on my iPhone, and it was very frustrating. I tried downloading a song but it kept coming up download error. Tap to retry.

I could retry forever, it wouldn’t work.

However, I did notice that before it actually went and failed, there was a pause button available for about .5 seconds. If you can hit that pause button before the download quickly fails, it will then restart. The download should work as normal after unpausing it.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Everyone will tell you what the best gift is for that special geek in your life, but there are also some horrendous ones out there that you shouldn’t buy for them. If you have to buy a gift for a tech nerd in your life, avoid these five guaranteed failures.

5) iTunes Gift Card

Regardless of the type of Apple product they have, you have no idea how this person fills it with content. If they have an iPod, they may download their music from LimeWire or FrostWire. If they have an iPhone/iPod touch, it may be jailbroken which means that all apps are free. Don’t assume that they spend money on iTunes. If you get them an iTunes gift card, it could definitely wind up on eBay. Just be sure they actually make purchases from iTunes before you buy them an iTunes gift card.

4) How-To or ‘For Dummies’ Books

You can find how to books for basically anything tech related. Microsoft Office, Windows, computer programming, etc. However, buying these books is a complete waste. There is an incredible amount of information online that you can Google instead of dropping $20 on a gimmick book. Don’t waste money on these things.

3) DVDs

If there is a geek in your life that likes a specific movie, chances are they’ve already downloaded it on BitTorrent or through some other methods. No geek is going to wait around for someone to buy them the DVD. They probably already have their own copy, so don’t be that person who gives useless gifts.

2) XBox 360 Games

This one pretty much goes hand-in-hand with the DVDs and iTunes gift card. many geeks have modded their XBox 360s to play backup games. Unless you know for sure that they buy all their games, don’t bother buying them an XBox 360 game. And, even if they do buy their games, make sure they actually will like the one you buy them. Everyone loves their grandma, but it really sucks when a 16-year-old male opens up the latest copy of Karaoke Revolution. Be careful if you’re trying to buy them a 360 game. Consider a GameStop gift card as an alternative.

1) Alarm Clock

It may just be me, but I’m averaging at least 1 alarm clock every 2 Christmas seasons. How many do you need? Despite the fact that there is a free Alarm application for Windows and an alarm clock on my iPhone, I still seem to get the coolest new alarm clock every other Christmas. Cross alarm clocks off your holiday list.

Some ideas for good gifts (varies from geek to geek): World of Warcraft game time, wireless 360 controller, a new gaming mouse (no keyboards please), blank CD, DVD, or DVD+R DL discs, gas gift cards, extended cell notebook battery, NES/SNES/Sega Genesis console, anything from woot.com, 2GB Sansa MP3 player (incredibly portable and only $20, great for working out), radar detector (nothing from Cobra).