While the record labels still focus all their efforts on protecting their precious cd sales the rest of the world – meaning the people that listen to music – are moving on.
As I have said before, the primary selling point for consumers of music is convenience.
While record labels might see mp3s and the downloading of these are the big problem, last fm, pandora and spotify are already busy at making mp3s a thing of the past. Having a big record collection took up shelve space. A big collection of mp3s takes up disk space. And no matter how big your collection is, it will never have everything, and it requires constant maintainance to keep it updated. But with online music services you have all the music in the world wherever and whenever you need it, constantly updated and properly indexed.
In a couple of years, having 60gb of disk space filled up with music will seem just as old school as having 500 cds on a shelve.
You know when you are sitting watching a clip on youtube and you have to keep moving the mouse around to stop your screensaver from starting up? Or when you watch a movie and just when it gets really interesting the laptop starts powersaving? Well no more (at least if you are on a mac).
This little app lets you select when you dont want your mac to start saving power og screensaving. That is all it does but man it is nice to have. Caffeine to the rescue
Ok a little nerdish here, but I had this problem with having the JW FLV Media Player and a NextGen Gallery on the same page. The playlist and playbutton of the flashplayer was showing through the modal window when showing the large pictures of the NextGen gallery.
This only happened in FF on mac … Safari on Mac, FF, IE6 and IE7 on pc did not have this problem.
I solved it by adding $output .= ’s’ . $videoid . ‘.addParam(“wmode”,”opaque”);’ . “\n”;
in the plugin editor.
Put it after $output .= ’s’ . $videoid . ‘.addParam(“allowscriptaccess”,”always”);’ . “\n”;
and it should work.
It is still a little querky, as the flash player comes throught the modal window when you page through the pictures in modal mode, but it is definentely better than having a big playbutton in the middle of all your pictures.
I was recently introduced to piclens, and I would like to recommend this cool Firefox plugin to everyone.
Basically it takes any gallery or picturecollection on a site and present them in a coverflow-ish way. It also have built in search function for google, flickr, photobucket and other sites.
What I mostly use it for, is google image searches that now look like this:
(This is a search for “texas” because I am going there i 5 days.)
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