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It's been eight months since I first downloaded and tried Songbird. Back then it was a "proof of concept" and it kept crashing on me. I ended up going back to iTunes for my MP3 playing needs. I want to use Songbird. It's open source and seems to get it.
I'm blaming MySpace. When MySpace exploded, everyone and their dog created their own web page. If you've ever been to a MySpace page, it's damn ugly, and there are widgets everywhere. There are slideshows, Flash games, maps, video, audio and more bling than you can shake a stick at. The
I've ranted about MySpace before. I hate MySpace and I'll never have a page there, but I can't deny the power MySpace beholds. If you ignore MySpace, you're doomed to fail. The MySpace beast cannot be denied. Toronto city councillor Frances Nunziata has unveiled her new MySpace page which will
The Flickr MT plug-in I use for the home page displays the last seven pictures uploaded to my Flickr account in the sidebar. On every other page you'll see ads, but on the home page you see pictures. You'll see pictures, unless the image uploaded to my account is a
Have you seen Stephen Colbert's send up of Wikipedia? It's very funny, but is it true? When I'm doing research, Wikipedia is often my first stop. Sadly, no Wikipedia page linked directly to this site, until now. Since anyone can edit a Wikipedia entry, I visited the Howard Glassman page
Announced last October, Canadian users of the Yahoo! and MSN instant messengers will now be able to communicate with each other. They call it interoperability and interested IMers in Canada can sign up for the beta test software at ca.messenger.yahoo.com or ideas.live.com. For the past
Fifteen years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee shared this on the alt.hypertext discussion group so others could download it and "try it". The World Wide Web went world wide and the rest is history. We've come a long way in fifteen years, but you know this is just the tip
Although this blog has been around for almost four years, I only started accepting comments in early February. That's almost six months ago, but today a single entry received more legitimate comments than any other entry in the history of this site. Throughout the day, well over a thousand fans
There are many things I love about Firefox, but a big part of the allure are the many extensions I use daily to enrich my web experience. I can't imagine life without many of the sixteen extensions I currently have installed. Here are my sweet sixteen: DOM Inspector - Inspect
I picked up this 1GB USB 2.0 flash drive last week. I then went to PortableApps.com and downloaded the following: Portable Firefox - my browser with my profilePortable Gaim - my IM client for YIM, MSN, Gtalk & work JabberPortable Thunderbird - my email client for workPortable FileZilla
Songbird, the highly anticipated open-source media player from Rob Lord and the gang, built on the same platform as Firefox, was released today as a "proof of concept". The official site was impossible to access, but I managed to download the installation file from a mirror. Songbird crashed the first
I warned you more changes were coming. This is the biggie. For years I fought the push to implement a CMS solution. I derived a great deal of pride from hand-coding this entire site and ensuring it successfully validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Even the CSS and RSS feeds
When Firefox 1.5 was released the other day, I was quick to install it. It truly creates a better web experience and I encourage all of you to download and install it right now. One of my favourite Firefox extensions is Adblock which filters ads from web pages. I've
I'm still angry about that XCP digital rights management technology bundled by Sony BMG on 52 of its audio CD albums. According to Gartner (not Mike Gartner, but the analyst firm), it can be defeated by applying a piece of Scotch tape to the outer edge of the disk. This
A bunch of Sony BMG Music Entertainment CDs were recently sold with copy-protection technology that not only hides the copy protection from view, but also leaves open a hole that could hide other malicious software. The software is intended to prevent us from burning too many copies of the CD
Today, the name "MP3" celebrates its tenth anniversary. According to this, on this day back in 1995, the researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS decided to use ".mp3" as the file name extension for their new audio coding technology. Soon MP3 became the generally accepted acronym for the
It seems everyone is talking about podcasts these days. In fact, it seems there are now more podcasts out there than there are people interested in listening to podcasts. Podcasting is the new blogging, or the new black, I get confused. Personally, my beef is with the term "podcast". "Podcast"
For my birthday, my loved ones all threw a few bucks in my hat so I could buy myself an MP3 player. It's the only gift I got and it's the only gift I really needed. I had been doing a great deal of research these past few weeks to
James enjoys music and I thought it was time he has own stereo so he could play his tunes whenever he wants. He's only three, so I knew anything I gave him could be destroyed. Initially, my plan was to give him a low-end CD player, but I quickly realized
Are you sitting down? I have a shocking declaration to make. I have never owned a cellular phone. As unbelievable as that sounds, it's true. I love gadgets and technology and all that, but I've never been interested in owning a cell phone. I always felt if I was going
I currently have nine Firefox extensions installed. I need to document this list in case I need to configure another browser so I'm just going to list them and briefly explain what they do. Web Developer - Adds a menu and a toobar with various web developer tools.Adblock -
Yahoo! has finally unveiled it's toolbar for Firefox. You can download it here. It's about bloody time. Any company developing browser plug-ins that don't work with Firefox don't get it. Every month Internet Explorer's share of the browser market gets smaller and smaller as people wise up and discover Firefox.
It's that time again. On my work PC, I'm going to have to reinstall my two year old installation of Windows XP Pro. It's been on a downward spiral for a couple of months now, but there are so many things I have to do after a clean install I've
This site has been hand coded in valid XHTML 1.0 for quite some time now, but it was XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Yesterday I changed my DOCTYPE declaration and tweaked each page so it's now valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. See for yourself! Because I was already writing in
I read warnings like this one just about every day. Security experts are always alerting us of new and highly critical security flaws in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This time, visiting a malicious web site could leave an IE user's computer vulnerable to malicious code. I don't have to worry. I
