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Mercora comes gunning for Pandora and LastFM
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So today I turned my browser away from Pandora and tried something new for a while, Mercora. For the life of me I cannot get the name right but I have a feeling I will be visiting this website a little more. Three things really stand out using Mercora. The first is the ability to search by an artist and have at your disposal all of the network’s songs at your pleasure. I found more songs to put into my iTunes que than a whole month of listening to Pandora, and thats just in one day. The second is the ability to listen to a “DJ” which plays like music that matches your taste. The interesting part is that after listening to the music for a while you become your own DJ. The third is the ability to stream Mercora music to any smartphone, with great success. Pandora is only now starting to enter this market with sprint.
At the end of the day Mercora has eclipsed LastFM, and successfully streamed music that I wanted all day without the slightest bit of interaction. The biggest downfall of Mercora is the user interface which while pretty misses the simplicity of Pandora. Its like someone combined KaZaa, iTunes, and Pandora and mixed in a LastFM like interface. Trying to figure out which song you are listening to and what song is next is a little confusing, and on occasion some of the songs I listened to had some audio strangeness going on. Neither one of these issues kept me from listening all day to Mercora, I attribute it more to a learning curve than anything. This is definetally a must visit site.
Your PC screen on your Light Emitting T-Shirt by Phillips
Everyone at Noheat knows that one of my biggest weaknesses are a cool tshirt, so how could I pass this up. The Light Emitting T-Shirt can display whatever you want (picture walking around with your LCD screen embedded in your shirt). I can picture some time in the future displaying your iPod’s music on your T-Shirt as you walk down a busy street. Or, picture walking down the street with your favorite episode of Seinfeld playing on your T-Shirt. While these demo shirts look a little fruity for my taste, I can definetally see some potential here. The two biggest questions I would have are how much and can you wash them.
Shut down web page or Myspace annoyances
Myspace is a great place to find people, however one thing rarely found on Myspace is restraint when building a profile page. Gaudy text, blinking animated gifs of toads shaking their rump, comment spam, and often a really annoying song playing on their music player.
The problem is even though your friend may have limited style, you still long to know BIGPIMPIN is doing this week. So how do you keep the fingernails down the chalkboard website from annoying you or worse yet crashing your browser. To the rescue comes SquareFree’s annoyance zapper.
Just install the bookmarks in the browser of your choice and when you see an annoying website click on the appropriate bookmarklet. Suddenly BIGPIMPIN’s website is free of its obnoxious content and you can have friends without style.
Have Novels emailed in chunks to you everyday
Can’t catch up on your quest to read a book every once in a while? Try having a chunk of a novel emailed to you every day in easy to swallow pieces. For instance you can have pride and prejudice emailed to you everyday at your specified time in 149 chunks. Of course you control the interval, deciding when you can make time for your literary goals. For busy folks on the run this may broaden your horizons. Try having Tale of Two Cities emailed to your smartphone, or have what ever book you desire where-ever you are. The book selection is decent although for now most are public domain books, however DailyLit is in discussions with new publishing partners.
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YourGMap, now customize your very own
What places do you think are cool? Now you can populate a Google map with your favorite places. This is great for out of town folk that may need a prod in the right direction when visiting. Or just use it as a annotation tool so that your intended viewer can have a little specialized information on their trip from A to B.
With Cl1p.net you can Copy and Paste across the Internet
If you have two computers it is inevitable that one day you will need to transfer files from one to another. The problem is that most of us are lazy and cruising the Network Neighborhood for that other computer that may or may not be shared out is simply a drag. Well now all of you file sharing slackers can rejoice with Internet Clipboard. This website will create a unique URL that you just type in to retrieve just about any kind of file.
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