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Archive for June, 2008

The Best, Free CD Album Cover Art Search Engines

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I always like to have a well-tagged and organized music collection complete with cover art. Some of my MP3s don’t have cover arts included in their ID3s, and it’s a pain searching for cover arts and adding them to the songs. Google Image Search is good, but there are better and efficient tools to do the same job of searching and fetching CD Album Cover Arts.

What follows is a list of some CD Album Cover Art search engines and tools that I’ve been using over the past few months. I’d really appreciate if you know of any other cover art searching tools – please leave a comment if you have something to say.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

June 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 pm

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SugarSync – The Most Innovative Consumer App for 2009 – GSMA Awards

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Previously reviewed all in one file backup and syncing solution SugarSync has got the prestigious 2009 GSMA Award for the Most Innovative Consumer Application  Service.

SugarSync is an all in one file syncing solution that you can use to sync files across your computers and also your mobile phone. I’ve talked about the features of SugarSync in my earlier review, and I’m still pleased with their service. I have no complaints yet, I think you guys should give it a try to know how good it is.

Sign up for SugarSync, you get a 45 day free trial with 10 GB space.

Written by Shankar Ganesh

June 12th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

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How To Embed an RSS Feed On Your Website or Blog?

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Google AJAX Feed API seems to be the quickest way to embed an RSS Feed to your website or blog. Embedding the RSS Feed is quick and simple if you use that tool, and it should just take a few seconds for you to do that.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

June 9th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

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Free Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Six Months Trial Key

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I’ve been an advocate of Avast antivirus for long, but I’ve read tons of positive reviews about Kaspersky Antivirus software and have always wanted to try it. The Kaspersky team today released Kaspersky Antivirus and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, both of which have been improved substantially.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

June 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am

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15 Useful Greasemonkey Scripts for Del.icio.us Users

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I’m a huge fan of Del.icio.us, and I use it quite a lot to bookmark web pages for later reference. I know there are quite a lot of people who use the service everyday.

This is a list of about 15 Greasemonkey scripts for Del.icio.us. Some of these add functional enhancements. Others add interface enhancements and some others integrate other services like Ma.gnolia with Del.icio.us.

In order to be able to use these scripts, you need to have Firefox installed with the Greasemonkey Extension. Once you have gotten those, just click the Download link near the Greasemonkey script for the installation to happen.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

June 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm

FeedCompare – Compare FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers

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Bloggers are probably going to love this tool. It’s a bit addictive, and does its job perfectly. FeedCompare.com lets you compare FeedBurner subscriber numbers of up to four blog feeds in a row.

Compare FeedBurner Subscribers Count and Growth

Just go to the site, and key in your blog feed’s URL and those of your competitors, and it’ll show you a neat graph listing the growth in FeedBurner subscribers of your blog feed against others. You can compare the stats for a month till two years.

Please note that you should have the FeedBurner Awareness API enabled for your feed so that the tool can access the stats.

Visit FeedCompare

Written by Shankar Ganesh

June 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm

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How to Automatically Update Your iTunes Library?

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iTunes is a good media player, but it misses those little features that you might really need. One niggle is that it doesn’t update the media library automatically – you won’t see the songs that were added recently to your music folders in the iTunes library. You need to manually update the library by adding the folder again.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

June 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 am

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