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Find New Music With TheSixtyOne

Find New Music With TheSixtyOne

Most of us find new music to purchase (or download ;-)) from watching music tv channels, from visiting music stores, or from recommendations from friends. The latter isn’t covered very well on the web. That is, until TheSixtyOne became available.

Use ClickZap To Double Right-Click

Use ClickZap To Double Right-Click

I’ve just stumbled across an amazing new application that adds a very simple function to a mouse, that is extremely useful.  ClickZap allows you to assign certain functions to a double right click on a mouse, in the same way as a double left click.
It may not sound very exciting, but just imagine assigning a [...]

99 Ways To Promote Your Blog

99 Ways To Promote Your Blog

One of my friends contacted me today about helping his wife setup a blog as she wanted a ‘business’ she could run from home.  I gave him a few urls to subscribe to like www.problogger.net, www.dailyblogtips.com and www.connectedinternet.co.uk, but I really wish I’d directed him through to the following site.
99 Ways To Promote Your Blog [...]

Find MP3s On The Web And Youtube With MP3shki

Find MP3s On The Web And Youtube With MP3shki

MP3shki may have a very strange name (I don’t even know how to pronounce it), but it is a very handy site to bookmark.  It’s an MP3 search engine that not only searches for mp3s on the web, it also crawls sites like YouTube and last.fm from music.
Songs can be searched for by artist or [...]

Automatically Add Lyrics To MP3s

Automatically Add Lyrics To MP3s

iTunes and iPods allow you to add lyrics to mp3 tags. However, songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store don’t come with lyrics added.
A quick way to add lyrics to mp3 tags is to use EvilLyrics, which can automatically add lyrics to mp3s automatically as you play them.

Improve Your Website's Speed With 13 Simple Steps

Improve Your Website’s Speed With 13 Simple Steps

One of the important jobs of a good webmaster is to make sure that pages load as fast as possible for all visitors. It’s no good assuming that everyone has a broadband connection.
You can never do enough in this department. If you are looking for a good guide to optimising your site, then [...]

VistaTweaker - Tame Your Windows Vista Setup

VistaTweaker – Tame Your Windows Vista Setup

Love it or hate it, Windows Vista is here to stay for a while.  Taming it though so that it runs super-smooth, or trying to reduce all those annoying popups isn’t easy.
A quicker way to get control of Windows Vista is to install VistaTweaker.  This neat little tool present in a nice selection list almost [...]

Friday Humor:  Watch Out For That Diving Board

Friday Humor: Watch Out For That Diving Board

French people are known for their dry sense of humors, so it was refreshing to watch this video.
Not content with looking ludricrous in a pair of black speedos, this joker decides to demonstrate to the watching crowds a hi-board dive. Not suprisingly, things didn’t quite work out as he expected. Luckily for [...]

Looking For An iTunes Alternative?  Try MediaMonkey

Looking For An iTunes Alternative? Try MediaMonkey

MediaMonkey must be one of the net’s best kept secrets. The best MP3 player on the planet, just got better in it’s version 3 release, adding lots of great functionality and even more iPod support.

AskMeNow - Get Free Answers To Questions Via SMS

AskMeNow – Get Free Answers To Questions Via SMS

Now this would be a great way to win Pub Quizzes!  AskMeNow is a text service that allows you to ask natural language questions via SMS.  All you have to do is send a text to 27563 (‘ASKME’ on your phone keys) and the answer comes straight back.