Archive for 'Any Other Business'

Friday, 14th September 2007

songbird, from the guys behind winamp …

… with some good stuff by mozilla/vlc/lots of other clever people!

I was installing this: http://userstyles.org/styles/2318 in FF this morning (and wow it’s nice, makes google reader even better and saw in the list of supported programs ‘songbird‘. Not heard of that I thought. A new things from mozilla?! So after a google I found: http://songbirdnest.com/ and even though it’s still in developer build, it looks very impressive.

Imported my itunes library (except things from the itunes store) great, found all the vids on my system (in all formats but doesn’t seem to like flv at the mo) and plays things very nicely. And it’s SO FAST! There’s no lag at all when clicking to play videos or music.

And having surfing as built in (but using a decent browser) is also great. Think of it like having firefox, itunes and divx in one program! I’ve not tried the ipod support yet…

Once this gets into a fully working program, I think it’s gonna turn a lot of heads!

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Thursday, 6th September 2007

A worrying stat…

It turns out I’m 75% addicted to blogging. I didn’t think it would be that much!

75%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Oh the feeds, the feeds

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Thursday, 6th September 2007

new bits for Google Reader!

I use the nice Google Reader to read the many many feeds I’m subscribed to and, of course, I’m subscribed to the official google reader news feed!

Well, they put this post out last night on the new bits for google reader and I like google, thanks!!!

My fav feature only gets a small mention, but it’s a little grey arrow that allows you to read post items full page width, great for posts with big images in them!

Keep up the good stuff google, one happy user here.

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