Pen's Gotta Have It Thread/Reviews

[carajas]

pendragon, What would you use to delete a folder that doesn't want to be deleted... I tried right click on it and nothing, dragging to the trash and nada. Folder is empty.
It was a folder I used when I used to do file sharing, I don't know if that helps.
Hope you know what to do.
Thanks!

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Does anyone use the windows Sidebar? Do you like it? Why? Favorite plugins? I can't decide on it. I have been back and forth a couple times. AT first there was a security issue now that's fixed. It just seems to me that it eats alot of desktop space - or I just have too many icons

[Mrs.BlackCrypt]

What little I've used it, I did not like. And I like sidebars. I just haven't been able to really find things I want for it. Or find things that offer me a better way of doing things than I currently do! I use AIOS all the time on FF. I have FF so cluttered that I like a plain desktop. I just discovered that you can add a "desktop" toolbar to your taskbar with all the icons, links etc on your desktop. That helps me stop using my Quick Launch Show Desktop button as much! I just hover over it, it pops up and I pick what I want to open.

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes. It is one of the 10 most popular applications for Apple's iPhone and attracts 40,000 new customers a day.

Yet the burgeoning company may be on the verge of collapse, according to its founder, and so may be others like it.

"We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision," said Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora. "This is like a last stand for webcasting."

The transformation of words, songs and movies to digital media has provoked a number of high-stakes fights between the owners of copyrighted works and the companies that can now easily distribute those works via the Internet. The doomsday rhetoric these days around the fledgling medium of Web radio springs from just such tensions.

Last year, an obscure federal panel ordered a doubling of the per-song performance royalty that Web radio stations pay to performers and record companies.

Traditional radio, by contrast, pays no such fee. Satellite radio pays a fee but at a less onerous rate, at least by some measures.

As for Pandora, its royalty fees this year will amount to 70 percent of its projected revenue of $25 million, Westergren said, a level that could doom it and other Web radio outfits.

This week, Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.) is trying to broker a last-minute deal between webcasters and SoundExchange, the organization that represents artists and record companies. The negotiations could reduce the per-song rate set by the federal panel last year.

The two sides appear to be far apart, however, with Berman frustrated.

"Most of the rate issues have not been resolved," Berman said. "If it doesn't get much more dramatic quickly, I will extricate myself from the process."

"We're losing money as it is," said Westergren, a former acoustic rocker. "The moment we think this problem in Washington is not going to get solved, we have to pull the plug because all we're doing is wasting money."

The digital reproduction of works in print, audio and video has provoked waves of lawsuits over who should benefit from copyrighted works distributed over the Internet.

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Another awesome little tool but this one is hardware...

i2i Stream is one of those weird little technologies that is difficult to explain but, once you "get it," it's pretty impressively useful and easy to use. Bear with me while I explain, then you'll see what I mean.

i2i Stream is a small, Zippo-sized device that sits between your iPod (or other MP3 player) and your headphones. Punch the channel button to cycle through the selections and pick your favorite color, then hit send. You are now streaming your music over the air. Whatever you play on your music player, that's what gets streamed, in real time.

Now the fun part: Anyone else nearby with an i2i Stream device can plug their own headphones into their i2i and listen to your stream. They don't need a music player at all, just a charged up i2i and a pair of 'phones. To listen, you just select the same color channel as your friend and click the receive button. That's all there is to it. (All i2i units can either stream or receive, so you can take turns sharing playlists.)

Range is about 30 feet and any number of listeners can pick up a broadcasted stream: One person in the middle of a classroom could provide music for the entire class. Up to four different channels can stream in the same area at the same time.

Audio quality is surprisingly good if you're in range (the company says it's beaming an uncompressed audio stream), and battery life of roughly five or six hours is decent. The device recharges via USB, which is convenient, too. Overall, i2i Stream is simple and works well; my only complaint of course is that it means carrying one more gadget (and one extra cable) in your pocket... and you'll have to get your friends to buy in to the concept, too, if you really want to put i2i to use. For the young target market, that might be tough: A pair of i2i Streams costs $120 (singles are $70 each), which may price it out of reach of cash-strapped teens.

Still, if you've got tons of friends desperate to listen in on what you're spinning at every spare moment, i2i is easily the best solution out there for sharing your stuff.

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[Marcusrab]

Tab mix will work for firefox 3, the other one however.. I dont know about.



A version for Firefox 3.0.1 is found here:http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9178

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