July 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
One of the factors that convinced me to use Firefox as my primary web browser is the bevy of free extensions that allow outside developers to bolt additional functionality onto the browser. There are thousands of these extensions; visit Fashion Your FIrefox to learn more, but keep in mind that extensions can slow down Firefox’s performance.
One of the Firefox extensions that I have found indispensible is DownThemAll, a download manager that provides one-click access to save files from a web page to your computer. You can easily customize DownThemAll to only download files of specific type (e.g. mp3, images, pdf).
So if you want to grab all the tracks I uploaded to a specific post, you can do it in one click. Even better, you can efficiently download my vinyl recordings or 5-star classics by using the tag cloud to the right.
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January 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
The iTunes rating system can be a huge help in organizing your iTunes library. I guess you can go the traditional route of rating your tracks from 1-5, but it’s tough to articulate the difference between, say, a 2-star track and a 3-star track. I also feel there’s pressure to rank all your songs when you’ve got a 5-star scale, and that takes a great deal of effort to maintain.
Here’s what makes the iTunes rating system an untapped resource: a track’s rating is one of the few attributes that can be edited directly in iTunes or on your iPod/iPhone, then synched seamlessly between both. This allows you to categorize songs at home or on the go.
What I like to do is use the 5-star system for purposes other than rating the relative quality of a track. Though my system is no less subjective, it’s become an essential tool to help keep my library organized and make my playlists better. Let me break it down for you star-by-star:
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