onetimesilence

I’ve started using an extension for Google Chrome that makes it even easier to listen to the music that I want to listen to right from my browser. To those of you who are brand new to the internet and to streaming music, I want to introduce three products to you. The best part is that they are all free.

1. Google Chrome

Download it now. And stop using Internet Explorer. I mean it. Even with the updates to Internet Explorer 9, IE and Microsoft are simply not following the rules and it makes for a sloppy internet. Unfortunately, we have to keep IE for those emergency situations where websites are poorly built to support only IE. This is a bad case of “if Johnny jumped off a cliff, would you?” …many websites jumped.

Google Chrome has a very simple user interface, it takes only a few minutes to find your way around, there are plenty of keyboard shortcuts to help speed up your work, it’s safe, and it’s fast.

2. Pandora

If you love music, love to listen to the radio, and love to discover new music, Pandora should be on your list of favorite tools. You can set up a free account at Pandora’s site and start listening now. This is all done on the website and no download is necessary.

Update (2011-10-13): They just enhanced their website as well. It’s even better than before!

You type in a keyword, artist name, song name, or genre to start the player. It will find “like” music and stream it to your player. As the songs play, you can give them a “thumbs up” to suggest that this song play more often, and you can “thumbs down” to keep the song from playing anymore. The site does have advertisements placed between every few songs to counter the site usage. But they are not obtrusive advertisements.

3. Pandora Extension / Anesidora

Once you have Google Chrome up and going and have seen Pandora in action, you’re ready for the next stage.

Google Chrome has a Web Store where you can download add-ons to Google Chrome. Some are free downloads and other cost (usually) a small fee. This allows to extend the capabilities of Chrome.

Update (2011-10-13): the extension was recently taken off of the Chrome Web Store. It has been uploaded to another site by the creator. The name has also been changed to Pandora Extension.

Robert Alten created an extension of Pandora to work with Google Chrome. This extension is called Anesidora Pandora Extension.

It creates a small icon next to the address bar to hold your Pandora music player. This way you don’t have an extra tab open in your browser. It pulls the info from Pandora right into the extension.

You can also sync the songs you played with your Last.fm account.

…still hoping someone could send me a Google Voice Beta invite…

I can’t believe it. They finally added the Auction House and Mail abilities to other WoW Armory (www.wowarmory.com).

You can now browse the in-game auction house (your faction and the neutral auction houses), place bids, post items for sale, collect the money from sold auctions, re-list items that did not sell, and more.

Here’s what Blizzard has on the Armory page:

The Remote Auction House lets you browse your realm’s auction house through a web browser or the iPhone’s Armory app. With a subscription to World of Warcraft Remote, you can also both bid on (or buy out) existing auctions as well as list your own items for sale from your bags, bank, and mailbox.

From what I can tell, everyone can check out all the features of the new Auction House via Armory, but soon it will cost extra subscription fees on top of your WoW subscription.

I’ve only placed one bid on the Auction House this way. We’ll see how that goes… But I have already sold an item that I posted from my iPhone.

I went on a search today to find a way to backup my photos that I’ve stored on Flickr.

I started using Flickr a in 2006 to store all of my photos online so I could easily search and find any of my photographs from any internet-accessible computer.

Since then, we have seen prices drop and make laptops and mobile devices like the iPhone and Android more available to consumers. We’ve also seen better service use of Wi-Fi, 3G, and 4G.

My Flickr account is now wonderful and at my fingertips.

But what would happen if I lost this connection? What if I needed them and did not have these technological comforts to get me to my photos? Or what is a catastrophe occurred and somehow the Flickr servers exploded (in theory)?

My thought actually falls to the fact that I am responsible for my own property, and not a company that I know (and trust) because of the internet and what they wrote on a Terms of Service Agreement.

In short, back up my photos so I don’t get upset one day down the road.

I was updating my iPhone Apps today. While ai the App store, I thought I would browse the new popular addons. I started to wonder. What happens when I use up all the App spots on my iPhone? Is there a way to get more? Will there be a time that Apple adds this? I wonder…

EDIT: I’m not sure if it was an update to the iPhone OS, or if I finally added enough apps to force the iPhone to give me more pages, but I now have a little more room. Any thoughts?

If Flickr is being blocked in your workplace, you can try to access it using the secret FlickrMud.
Mum’s the word on this. Don’t share with your internet technicians. Maybe it will stay unblocked.

Instead of going to http://www.flickr.com/photos/onetimesilence
Go to: http://www.flickr.mud.yahoo.com/photos/onetimesilence

I just found this video of the iPhone with it’s own version of Command and Conquer.

The iPhone is coming so far in providing a handheld phone that can match the gaming of the Nintendo DS and the PSP. It’s not quite there yet, but this shows that it’s limitations are small.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0v_oj8LLQI

I’d love to see Age of Empires II on the iPhone. That would be great.

Flickr just released an update to their uploading program, Flickr Uploadr 3.1.3. The new version supports uploading of video as well as photos. You can also upload complete folders.  This program makes uploading and organizing you photos easy. You tag and edit the titles and descriptions all from the Uploadr. You even add them into the sets that they need to belong to. It’s much faster than changing this information on the Flickr website. Or, if you just want to upload a ton of pictures as you walk about the door, you can do it. And then edit them later.

Flickr Uploadr Screenshot

You can download the new version at http://www.flickr.com/tools/ or directly from the following links:

Windows Vista and XP: Download (12MB)

Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4: Download (20MB)

Edit 12:32 pm: I’ve already found a small possible bug in the account switcher list. But it’s nothing that actually affects the use of the program.  It’s mainly with aesthetics of the drop-down account names. It labels one of my accounts twice.

I’ve started using DandyID and I love it. Over the years I’ve signed up with many websites that host a profile about myself to share my achievements or stats.

You should check it out.

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You don’t have to log in to 5 different chat programs anymore!

This may have been around a little while but I’m just now using it. Well, I’ve been using it for several months now.  So, I’m just now talking about it.

Many people have installed Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ, AIM, and others in order to have all of their contacts available.  This caused a lot of programs to be open on your computer. And a lot of the information was saved on the local computer.  In order to cut this down some, I started using a program called Trillian.  This was great since it brought all of these into one program.  I had all of my contacts from all the messengers in one list.

Well, now, I don’t even have to have any programs installed. With the advance of Web 2.0, I can now go to Meebo.com and log in and all of my contacts are right there. Everything is saved online.  This means that I can log into Meebo from any computer and it will all be there.

And if you’re using Firefox (which I suggest), then you can get the Meebo Firefox Extension.

Simply, you should check this out at Meebo.com