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  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Feb 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 27

Spotify: Music legally on demand

gHacks suggested Spotify as an alternative to Pandora last year, and Spotify has recently gained a lot of attention in the British press. I thought it may be wise to discuss Spotify on here.
Spotify is a service which allows users to stream many songs online free and legally. The service is ad-supported and currently available [...]

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Categories: Mac, Music and Video, Online Services, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 4th, 2007
  • Comments: 21

Speed up Youtube Video Playback and Download

Youtube Videos which are also used on sites like Myspace or embedded into blog posts sometimes take ages to load which results in freezes and stuttering which can only be solved by pausing the playback until the video is fully loaded. There is a possible way that would accelerate the download of the youtube video by up to five times. This is done by the free software Speedbit Video Accelerator which builds up five different connections to the video server to speed up the streaming of the video. This method does not help if you are already using the maximum bandwidth available of course.

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Categories: Browsing, The Web, Tools, firefox, ie

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 8th, 2007
  • Comments: 6

Download free music at the Hype Machine

The Hype Machine is a free music blog search engine that makes it easy to search and listen to music that is posted on music blogs. Whenever a music blog that is connected to the Hype Machine adds a new mp3 file it is added to the index of the Hype Machine as well and everyone visiting the website is able to listen to it using his favorite player.

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 17th, 2007
  • Comments: None

Record more than 4000 internet radio stations

If you are looking for an easy way to record internet radio stations look no further. Phonostar is a free radio player and recorder that comes preconfigured with more than 4000 radio stations. Phonostar tries to automatically determine the audio source that can be used to record songs and loads the interface afterwards. Top stations are selected and a double-click starts the playback of that station. Please note that all top stations seem to be in German, conduct a search for English stations.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 11th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

Use Orb to stream media on any device with internet access

Orb is a free software that changes your pc into a streaming server. If the Orb software is running on the pc every other device that has internet such as the Nintendo Wii, a notebook or pda can connect to a website and view any media file that is shared on the streaming server. The setup is really simple. Download the Orb software and install it on the computer that you want to use as the server.

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Tools

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 10th, 2007
  • Comments: 3

Pandora adds commercials

Pandora streams music over the internet which is related to a artist or song that you have entered at the beginning. The service is great to find new artists that make a similar kind of music than artists that you like to listen to. The service was completely free until now.

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 23rd, 2006
  • Comments: 2

FineTune a Pandora like Music website

If you do now Pandora you feel right at home when entering the FineTune website. Guests may use only part of the streaming radio services offered at the website but it is good enough for a rough overview of what FineTune has to offer. Just enter an artists name in the search field and FineTune will search for the artist that you have entered and related artists and start with the playback of songs that the search found.

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment, The Web

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