ExtensionFM
ExtensionFM is a browser extension for Chrome that finds every MP3 file on pages you visit and automatically creates a library of those songs for you to enjoy.
Trip Journal Turns Your Smartphone Into the Ultimate Trip Scrapbook
Trip Journal is a mobile app for iPhone and Android that lets you capture photos, video and route marks of your vacation as it happens. You can then share your trip with your friends and family via Facebook, Flickr and Twitter.
Trip Journal 5.0 has just been released for iPhone and Android, and it adds full Facebook support for you to export your trip, your photos and your route to your friends. Your friends can then comment on your trip in your Facebook stream and also make comments to items in your Trip Journal directly.
Trip Journal is a really great app for users who might be traveling abroad or covering lots of area because it uses your phone’s built-in GPS to give your photos and places a location and marker on an interactive map. That map, which can even be exported to Google Earth, can act as a running log of your trip. You can go back later and add tags, descriptions or notes to the images, but everything associated with your trip is kept in one easy-to-access and attractive place.
[Mashable: Trip Journal Turns Your Smartphone Into the Ultimate Trip Scrapbook]
7 Unique Sites for Discovering New Music
Most music enthusiasts will agree that there is a big difference between hearing a band on a CD and seeing them perform live. While it might have been the recording that got you to the show, it’s often the live concert experience that transforms an artist you like into your favorite band.
But since many of us don’t always have the time or ticket funds to see as many concerts as we’d like, here are seven sites that will bring all the intimacy of a live show to your desktop. Their combination of rare live recordings, unusual video locations, and behind-the-scenes snapshots are sure to please any music fan. So get ready to fall in love with your favorite bands all over again, and to discover some new ones along the way.
- La Blogotheque
- The Black Cab Sessions
- Daytrotter
- NPR’s All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concerts
- They Shoot Music – Don’t They
- Live From Daryl’s House
- From the Basement
[Mashable: 7 Unique Sites for Discovering New Music]
How to Get a U.S. iTunes Account Anywhere In the World
You don’t need a credit card and it is far easier than other methods we’ve seen. Best, it works in ANY country, so if you’re in the U.S., you can use it to buy music available only in the U.K. And if you’re outside the U.S., you can use the account to buy apps and music not available in your country, like Apple’s iWorks suite.
[Cult of Mac: Get a U.S. iTunes Account Anywhere In the World]
How to Lock Your Mac
- System Preferences → Security → General → Check Require password after sleep or screensaver begins.
- Keyboard Shrtcut: Shift+Ctrl+Eject
[Lifehacker: Lock Your Mac in a Keystroke – Keyboard Shortcuts]
A Better Finder Attributes 4
Change the file attributes that the Finder won't let you touch:
* file modification and creation date and time
* adjust the Exchangeable Image File (EXIF capture) time & date that JPEG pictures were shot to compensate for time zones or incorrectly set digital camera clocks
* visualize or remove invisible files
* set the file creation date to the time that a digital camera picture was taken
* lock or unlock the file (prevents the name and the contents of the file to be modified.
* add, modify or remove the Mac OS 9-style creator & type codes
* show or hide the file extension for individual files
* set Finder color labelsDigital camera owners use A Better Finder Attributes to adjust photo shooting or creation dates, to compensate for incorrectly set camera clocks or incorrect sorting in the Finder.
Digital media professionals and web masters give their media the finishing touches before uploading them to web servers or burning them on CD or DVD by removing unsightly invisible files, Mac OS legacy creator and type codes and by setting the files' creation and modification dates to appropriate values.
System administrators and developers remove invisible files before checking them into version control or document management systems, or before placing them on shared Unix, Linux or Windows network servers.