• Rough Trade opens massive record shop to fight internet – Independent
  Rough Trade, which had its origins in a pokey music store on Kensington Park Road in London, is to open Britain’s biggest music-only shop in a direct challenge to the all-conquering power of the internet.
• Legal Music Services Compared
  And not so legal services….Run down includes borderline legal Russian download services.
• Listening Post – Wired Blogs
  the popular online music streaming site Pandora instituted blockade against IP addresses outside of the United States. Frantic Industries posted a list of proxy techniques you can use to fool Pandora into thinking you’re in the U.S.

• Daves Imaginary Sound Space
  Web toolbox, list of useful online apps.
• Media Distribution
  If you were looking for a list of links where you can get your podcasts, videos and audio distributed in the web 2.0 media world, here it is, courtesy of Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space.

• Blog Growth Stalling: Some Reasons Why I Nearly Quit Blogging » Webomatica – tech, movies, music blog
  Some recent numbers from Technorati (condensed by Valleywag) suggest that while the total number of blogs is increasing, more blogs are falling inactive, meaning blog growth has stalled at 15 million.

• WordPress Theme Generator
  Word Press Theme Generator lets you create your own unique wordpress theme easily within minutes.
• Library clips :: The many ways to post to your blog :: April :: 2007
  There’s no excuse to not publish blog posts, you can do it from anywhere using various web tools!
• Geek to Live: Build an internet jukebox with Jinzora – Lifehacker
  With Jinzora installed on your home server, you can browse your music library, create playlists on the fly and stream your music from home over the internet to another computer or handheld anywhere.
• iPodifier
  Freeware application iPodifier monitors user-defined folders for videos, automatically transcodes them to an iPod-compatible format, adds them to iTunes, and then syncs them with your iPod.
• LH Top 10: USB thumb drive tricks – Lifehacker
  The explosion of USB thumb drives gives anyone the ability take some serious file storage space along with their house keys.

• Digg – Carry a PC Repair System on a USB Drive
  The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that’ll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities.

• Rogue Amoeba – Fission: Lossless Audio Editor for Mac OS X
  Fission is a streamlined audio editor designed to get you editing in minutes, not hours. Fission lets you copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files, all with no quality loss.

• Belarc Advisor – Free Personal PC Audit
  The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile inform

• GOOG-411 offers free directory assistance – Lifehacker
  Google Labs just rolled out a Google Voice Local Search, which is basically a free 411 search.

• The Steampunk Workshop
  Making artifacts from an alternative age.
• Telegraph Clacks out RSS Feeds
  Morse code into RSS feeds?
• An App A Day – Downloads: Day 7 – Google Wallpaper
  Using Google image search to switch your desktop wallpaper automatically.

• MozBackup – Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird
  If you want to save or back up your profiles in Firefox and Thunderbird email client this neat little app is great and easy to use if you dont want to go through the pain of the Mozilla step by step.
• Link Alert :: Firefox Add-ons
  The Link Alert Firefox extension displays customized mouse cursors in Firefox to let you know what a link is pointing you toward.
• Google Firefox Extensions
  List of official Google Firefox extensions.
• Mozilla: Why Desktop E-Mail Crucifies the Browser
  Thunderbird developer says Thunderbird 2 will still keep pace with GMail.
• The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers-Wired.com
  Well, thats OK then!!

• New Rave? Old rubbish | Electronic | Guardian Unlimited Music

• Decrypting – Doom9′s Forum
• Microsoft’s war waged with FairUse4WM – Engadget

• Wi-Fi Networking News
• If No One Reads Your Blog, Does Disclosure Matter?
• Vator.TV
• User/Submitter for Digg Users and Submitters
• Webmaster Forum – Internet Marketing & Search Engine Forums

• Modding the Motorola Razr V3 | razr mods | Razr Software Upgrading – Home
• Convert YouTube Videos for Your iPod
• Snap Preview Anywhere
• EMI Drops DRM For New Premium Line-Up, Higher Price; Apple First
• paidContent.org: This Just In: Steve Jobs To Music DRM: Drop Dead
• When will Ringtone providers be outlawed?

• Buddi – Personal budget software for the rest of us
• How To: Erase Your Hard Drive – Consumerist
• Add an “identities” widget to your site with ShowYourself – Lifehacker
• GooSync
• GTD Search at Did I Get Things Done?
• Vitalist » Online GTD Software
• Tracks-Doing Things Properly
• WinSnap – enable superior screenshots – NTWind Software
• JibberJobber :Career Toolset
• Isabont – Plan your career. Manage Your Job Search.
• WebHostingTalk Forums – Web Hosting Discussion
• Jamendo : Open your ears
• Best of Bootie 2006 CD
• Mozy Online Backup: Free. Automatic. Secure.
• Lijit- Personal Search widget
• Associate-O-Matic :: Build a custom Amazon.com Associate Store with 1000′s of items in minutes
• Google’s CPA Move: Will Microsoft & Yahoo Have To Buy Their Way Into CPA Game?

Here’s a really useful widget for people with blogs or multiple memberships at social networks, bookmarking sites and the like. If you’re like me you probably have profiles at a bunch of different websites, Flickr, MySpace, Digg, YouTube and such. With ShowYourself you can combine all your profiles on the web into one neat looking widget that you can put on your blog, your MySpace page or anywhere on the web.

With developer Dustin Bachrach’s app you type in your usernames for the sites you use and clear the checkboxes for those you don’t. The ShowYourself widget-builder lists around two dozen popular destinations, from AIM to Last.fm to YouTube, and you can easily add others.

Via Lifehacker.com

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• Buxfer: Track Your Money
• The Freesound Project
• Home Based Business: Online Job Hunting Trick: Know Yourself First
• NewTeeVee » 10 Pipes for Your Tubes
• Find Neighborhood Profiles and City Information on Yahoo! Real Estate

• English Football Grounds – Community Walk
• Google Operating System: How Google Blog Search Ranks Results
• Born to Roam For Free – Voxilla
• Welcome to Roam4free – The end of sky high roaming charges !
• OpenMoko-Free Your Phone
• Blog Translations: The Next Web Frontier
• Fighting Syndication Based Spam – ReveNews -
• dnScoop – Domain Name Value, History, Stats Tool and Forums
• Web Worker Daily » 5 Ways To Use Skype Prime to Make Money «
• WiFi Cafes and Hotspots
• Best Travel Notebooks
• The Ultimate Geek Go Bag
• How to Time Your Gadget Purchases: The Ultimate Guide | The Free Geek
• VIRB°
• Alpha Geek: 10 cool cell phone tricks – Lifehacker
• Geek to Live: Make a ringtone from any MP3 – Lifehacker
• oneSearchâ„¢ on Yahoo! Mobile Web. Search for anything from anywhere.
• Skype Journal
• p2pnet.net – Google phone is talk of the town

• Gapminder World Tutorial
• Yebotv
• A quick note on DMCA Safe Harbors, Youtube and VIacom – Blog Maverick
• Goodbye Analog TV – Blog Maverick
• Business Blogs: How to Build A Better Blog: Blogging for Dollars: NY’s Top Bloggers May Go Broke
• HarpzOn.com – Quality Controlling Your Blog Posts
• HarpzOn.com – Why I’m Spending $10,000 On ReviewMe Paid Reviews
• EarlyStageVC: A Reflection on the Web 2.0 Inflection
• From Istanbul To Sand Hill Road: Fastest Way to Send a Terabyte Overnight?
• Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog : Moving A Petabyte of Data
• Blogorrhea NYC: Cheer Up, Little Blogger! – Gawker
• FreshBooks – The Fastest Way to Invoice Your Clients
• Mark Evans – Guest Post: The Outlook for Pod-vertising
• NPR Starts A War | Medialoper
• New Podcast/Blog ad network geared to boomers – Social Marketing – BizReport
• Personal Life Media Home – Podcasts and blogs with expert advice on personal growth, anti-aging, intimacy and relationships

• CRITICAL METRICS
• Today’s Blog Music / The Hype Machine – discover, listen and buy music discussed on the best mp3 blogs
• Webcasting Crushed In The Land Of The Free at noWax

• WebMail Extension For Thunderbird
• Get Mail | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
• GSyncit – gCalendar <-> Microsoft Outlook Sync
• Outlook Tip: Send an email without touching the mouse – Lifehacker
• Personal development with creativity, productivity and GTD- LifeDev
• RIP Twitter (2007-2007) « Web1979
• Personal Development Blog, Podcast, and Portal-Business Success Blog-Cultivate Greatness
  
• Free eXPert PDF Reader : a pdf viewer for editing pdf document,highlights,annotations
• Importing Netscape 7 / Mozilla Mail into Outlook Express, or Outlook
• Mozilla – Launchy

I’m having problems with the formatting on the del.icio.us daily posts plug-in at the moment which I am having to clean up manually so excuse the coding mess while I search out a solution.

• Jello « Jello.Dashboard
• Top 100 Feeds » Share Your OPML
• Google AJAX Search API
• CodePlex – flickr4writer
• D*I*Y Planner | Paper, productivity & passion
• DVD Decrypter Download
• Alpha Geek: Copy DVDs to your iPod – Lifehacker
• Alpha Geek: Copy TV shows to your iPod – Lifehacker
• FireAnt.tv – Video Podcast Directory, Internet TV

I mentioned this WordPress plug-in briefly in yesterdays post here , though I didn’t elaborate much. But anyway, Postalicious is another useful plug-in that you may find of use if you’re running a WordPress blog.

Postalicious is a plug-in that automatically posts your del.icio.us bookmarks to your blog. I’m using it here and it works great if you are running Firefox with the del.icio.us browser extension. That way you can add bookmarks as you browse without visiting del.icio.us and at the end of the day the plug-in will add your daily finds as a post. Neato.

Related

Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection (QuickOnlineTips.com)
Del.icio.us Firefox Extension (Del.icio.us)
Del.icio.us A to Z By Function (Econsultant.com)

The Yahoo owned bookmarking service del.icio.us (also reachable simply by typing the URL delicious.com!) is easily the most popular of many, many similar services. I bookmark hundreds of websites weekly so I try and upload them by exporting from my browser and importing them into del.icio.us.

Uploading is relatively painless for me from Firefox. Bookmarks>Organize>File>Export>Bookmarks, go to your Delicious page and upload.

The most annoying thing about the del.cio.us service is that by default, sharing is actually turned off when you import your bookmarks which means that you have to turn on sharing individually for each bookmark you want to share. Bizarre and annoying and with over 500+ bookmarks just uploaded by me its just not happening.

Luckily some wag has has come up with a handy ‘work-around’ script which I used succesfully to change the settings on over 600 links yesterday.

Greg at Freshblog has wrote the awesome javascript that goes through and automatically changes all your bookmarks to “share”. Copy and paste the code (from the above link) into the address bar of your browser when you have loaded the appropriate delicious page. Hit enter, bosh! An alert box will pop up telling you how many posts are on the page and off it goes automatically turning the “not shared” setting off. Brilliant.

Found at Freshblogs

Related Reading

Buzzsonic del.icio.us
Blogger Migration For Delicious and FreshTags (Freshblogs.com)
Do You Have Anything to Declare? (del.icio.us Blog)