Free Online Radios: FilterMusic

"First there was AM and then FM. Most recently, the satellite radio companies have proclaimed themselves as the logical next step in the evolution of radio.."


FilterMusic.net is a website that provides some really good free internet radio channels. You will find from classical to hard rock music radios. Very easy to use with a simple page design.

Check it out.

Skype: User numbers record thanks to iOS app

The voice and video chat operator, which typically sees about 25 million simultaneous users during peak hours, had more than 27 million users signed onto the service at the same time..

gigaom.com: Read full article

A peaceful place to write..

Focus is necessary for good writing. And, in order to focus, you need a quiet place to think, to ponder, and to dream.

QuietWrite is your peaceful online editor: a place where you can be alone with your words and thoughts.

You can save or you can publish easily. Check it out.

How to change your blog icon (favicon)

This tutorial shows you how to change your blog small icon that's located on the page tab called favicon.

STEP 1. Acquire the desirable icon.
Make sure your icon's resolution is about 20x20 pixels. I suggest PNG format.

STEP 2. Upload it (imageshack.us etc.)

STEP 3. (For Blogger users) Go to: Design > Edit HTML

After the line

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

type

<link href='http://YOUR_ICON_URL' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>

DONE
that simple...

Ninite for Linux too!

Ninite installs multiple apps at once without any hassles.

Choose the apps you want and then click Get Installer. They make a custom .deb package for Ubuntu that will add the proper APT repositories and keys and then install the apps for you.. :)

Image and audio editing ONLINE for FREE

Aviary is a free, powerful suite of browser-based design tools for people who love to create.
Test it out!

Find a good color scheme with Color Scheme Designer

While designing web pages, computer applications, or house interiors, we need to find good color scheme - set of colors producing the best impression. For every tint there are colors which it can coexist with, and which it can't. Some combinations are uncomfortable, or disturbing - while others are pleasant.

Color Scheme Designer generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperssion - using one of the authentic algorithms.

Fastest and easiest way to share your code

This is a site that will make your life easier when it comes to share any programming language code with a friend on web.

PASTEBIN.COM

You can choose Syntax Highlighting (Programming Language), Post Expiration and Post Exposure (Public or Private). You can set a title and add your email.

Simultaneous writing with Google Docs

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.



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HTML5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?

"The budding Web spec just might remove the need for proprietary rich Internet app add-ins".

HTML5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete  such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.

 The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTML5 proposal is geared toward Web  applications, something not adequately addressed in previous incarnations of HTML, the W3C  acknowledges. In other words, HTML5 tackles the gap that Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX are trying to fill. [..]

Read more (infoworld.com)

[..]Yet, another thing to point out is that Flash video is used for a lot of things beyond basic playback. Flash supports embedded cue points and alpha channels and is often used in ways beyond the traditional YouTube playback scenario. So while HTML 5 video looks promising, it is clearly way too early for people to be writing an eulogy for Flash video. Remember also that Flash video will continue to evolve as well.

Read more (theflashblog.com) 

Taste this
YouTube released an HTML 5 demo of its player quite a while ago and are now testing this on their site.

Rapidshare against piracy !

Who would have thought? Rapidshare is on the warpath against people downloading copyrighted material using their webservice, and has a plan to break the cycle of lost industry revenues that are supposed to result.

What are they up to?
How are they going to do it?
Why the move?
Read more here

Google adds security feature to Gmail

Google has just added a new feature to Gmail: If you log on from a certain country, and a short while later, someone logs on from a different country, you will then get a security alert like the one above. It tells you that someone has tried to access your account from another country. It also tells you which country it was, and allows you to quickly change your password.

In the US, it seems to search down to the state level. Therefore, even if the hacker knows that a user is based in the US and uses a US proxy to mask their actual location, the alert may still pop up if the proxy is located in a state other than where the user normally logs on. Google didn't say this in so many words, but the current "activity on this account" screen shows activity listed by state (so, consider this an educated guess).

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Solerbeat - Check out planets' movement

This is a nifty find for teachers, and also just for use with your own kids at home. SolarBeat lets you view the solar system as a simple musical instrument. The planets revolve around the sun, each at its own speed and relative to the others. Once a planet crosses an imaginary line (which you can see in the screenshot above), it makes a short "ping" sound. A slider lets you control the "tempo," of the overall speed of movement.

The status bar shows you how many years have passed for each planet in relation to their respective orbits. You can really see that each planet revolves at a certain rate, that they all revolve around the sun, and that a "year" lasts for a different duration on each planet. These are all facts which can take some time to get across to a young kid, but this elegant demo makes the learning process that much faster.

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The Pirate Bay to launch YouTube-style video streaming site

The VideoBay . org : a YouTube-like service without the worries and hassles of those annoying copyright takedown notices.

The developers behind the Pirate Bay team have been developing a video streaming site for the past two years, and an "extreme beta" version of the project is available (meaning, in their words, "Don't expect anything to work at all"). Users can share video clips here without having to fear concerns they may be removed over copyright claims, as with the current dominant video-sharing service, YouTube.

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Web tracking with StatCounter

So you need a - free - web tracker for your blog? Choose StatCounter.

What is StatCounter?
A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

Believe me it gives you a lot of informations about your blog's traffic, try it!

How to unlock your Blogger blog

Blogger blog can be locked if your blog has spamming content, malware posing possible threats or anything against TOS; OR Some Malicious users may have flagged your blog reporting it abuse to Blogger using NavBar of your blog. Many inncocent Blogs are caught in crossfire for no use. Blogger system without reviewing it first locks your blog and then you can’t do nothing instead of waiting. Read on to unlock it yourself…

For Example your blog URL sony.blogspot.com gets locked, First of all don’t panic! Your blog has not been deleted. Instead, you will not be able to post until your blog has been reviewed and cleared by a member of the Blogger team. But when this reviewing process will complete? Follow the steps.

0. Go to Blogger in Draft, Create a new blog (Yes, you do have access to your blogger account eventhought blog is blocked) and for example the new blog URL is tony.blogspot.com

1. Now, Go to setting tab of your new blog and from Blog Tools column, Click on Import Blog. Import all your blog posts and comments of sony.blogspot.com to tony.blogspot.com

2. Now, Go to Settings of locked one (sony.blogspot.com) and under Publishing tab give Blogspot address as anything except sony or tony. Let us call it sony-new.blogspot.com

3. Again Go to Settings of the new one (tony.blogspot.com) and under Publishing tab, change the Blogspot address to sony.blogspot.com

4. Done, Your Locked blogger blog is now unlocked, You can now post, edit, delete anything you want as a normal blogspot blog.

This happenss because, Blogger systems while blocking a blog takes into account your blog ID not the URL of your blog. Blog ID is a unique number given to all blogs for their identification by Blogger systems. It generally appers while your are on control panel of a Blog. For example – http://blogger.com/blog-options-basic.g?blogID=XXXXXXXXXXXX

Whereas you are interested in Blog URL not its ID, isn’t it? So, getting locked Blogger blog is easy but this post is not for promoting malicious content or spam on Blogs. You should not spam because you are getting free hosted full fledged Blogger hosting for free and it’s great to use it. This tutorial is published to help those innocent bloggers who have been a victim for no purpose. Since, Blogger will not get time to review your blog manually (I think so..) and so, you will have to take this steps.
It is recommended to always have a backup of your blog on any dummy URL for safety.

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JetBytes: On-the-fly file transfer

So you want to send a file to a contact of your messenger,pidgin(maybe facebook or whatever) list but transfering speeds are awfully slow?

Use Jetbytes service instead !

JetBytes is an experimental file transfer service which works without storing files during the transfer and allows to download it immediately.
Choose a file, and send the link to whom you want to transfer the file.

Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers

Here's a rundown of five of the most popular options.

The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is no longer the full-service tracker it once was thanks to some rough battles with the law, but it remains in service as an indexer. The Pirate Bay has been and remains one of the most publicly recognizable faces of the torrent phenomenon and is still a popular destination for torrent seekers. It no longer indexes its own tracker but instead organizes torrents indexed to other trackers. The Pirate Bay is known for having, even now, a wide selection and a well-organized, easy-to-browse site.

BTJunkie

BTJunkie is one of the largest torrent indexers on the web with over four million torrents and several thousand added daily. BTJunkie amasses such a high number of torrents by employing crawlers that dig through web sites looking for torrent files to index. The quality of torrents is ranked both by an algorithm and by user input which helps filter out low quality or malicious torrents.

isoHunt

Another enormous indexer, isoHunt has nearly two million torrents and a huge user base. In addition to being able to search torrents and sort them by age, number of peers, and other common search factors isoHunt has an additional variable, appropriately called isoHunt Rank, that is a compilation of all the other factors like age, number of comments, user feedback, and more. Sorting by isoHunt Rank allows you to see which torrents are best overall instead of just best in some subcategory like number of seeders or age.

Demonoid

Demonoid is a semi-public tracker. Registration is traditionally closed—it opens a few times a year to let new users in, or you can be invited by an existing member—but the site is still quite functional even without registration. Registration gives you access to the deep archives of Demonoid, but even without it you have access to over a quarter million torrents—the most recently added ones—available for download. Demonoid has built a name for itself by having a low number of bogus torrents and a high level of user participation.

KickAssTorrents

KickAssTorrents is a new kid on the torrent indexing block, but it has quickly built a name for itself by offering a user friendly experience. KickAssTorrents is the only torrent search engine that offers correction of spelling mistakes—search for Unutu for instance and it will ask "Did you mean Ubuntu?"—which is a small thing but highlights the level of detail put into the construction of their search engine. In addition to indexing regular torrents KickAssTorrents also indexes httpTorrents, which allow users who cannot access the BitTorrent cloud due to their location or firewall restrictions to access torrents.

Original post: LifeHacker

PHP too slow for Facebook, builds its own faster version

It seems the world's largest user of PHP -- itself the Internet's most popular programming language -- has decided to build and compile its own version to speed up its operation. Facebook, which has over 350 million users, is due to announce its changes this week, but speculative rumors are bouncing all over the place! (read more at Download Squad)

YouTube's new Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool

It looks like YouTube is embracing the fact that it is increasingly being used as a music service, and has launched a new project called the Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool. The URL is dead easy to remember: youtube.com/disco.

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