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Karaoke at Singshot

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I’ve noticed that the maximum hits on this site have been for the iKaraoke post. I cant sing to save my life but do so anyway. Secretly I nuture the thought that beneath confusing scales etc. lurks a great singer as yet undiscovered :D

Recently I came across a site which allows me to have as many singing performances as I want. I thought that all you (closet) karaoke fans might be interested too. Singshot allows you to make recordings of your favourite songs. You can choose to keep it to yourself or share it with friends or let it loose on a worldwide audience! Happy Singing!

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Figuring out the Blogger Beta Templates

I’ve recently moved my blogs over to Blogger Beta. In fact, after a bit of reading, I did it the day I received the invitation. :D I’m a beginner and just about know the difference between HTML and CSS. I peeked into the Blogger Beta templates and found code that looked new to me and quickly closed the window.

Today while surfing I found a blog that gives an explanation for each element in this new template. This is going to be very handy when I go back to make changes to the new templates. 

Deconstructing Blogger Beta HTML Template Editing

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My Index Finger is all for it!

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I just loved the title of the article “Dont Click It” and couldnt resist clicking to check it out!  (Source: Ajaxian)

The tip of my index finger is sore at the end of the day with all the clicking and tapping and double tapping that i do and this inspite of having moved from using a mouse to a tablet.  Now while my wrist is in better shape the hidden index finger problem has come to light.   The site is an experiment in the ability to navigate pages without the use of clicking.   I’m all for it and am fervently hoping that it will catch on.

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Personalise Google Search

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Found this on Lifehacker, who’d spotted it on Pogue’s Posts who got it from one of his readers Richard. Phew! keeping up with keeping a track of a source is getting to be difficult. The norm seems to be to name just the last source but since there werent too many I’ve listed all 3. You might enjoy sending this off to friends just to see their reactions. Me, I was just happy to try out something new and have some fun.

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Digital Voice Recorder

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None of the gizmos released in the recent past have excited me. But then I spotted digital voice recorders and decided that those were pretty cool. Now I needed an excuse to own one. Being scatty I thought that it would come in handy as a “reminding” tool. I also wanted to keep a journal in which I needed to put in 3 full pages in writing first thing in the morning but by the time I got up and opened up my journalling software I’d already forgotten my dreams, thoughts etc. I’m planning to use this new gadget to dictate into and hopefully transcribe the ramblings later in the day. Read good reviews about the Olympus DS-2 and that’s what I have. To date I use it for reminders and it has come in handy. I hope to start the journalling activity soon.

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iKaraoke

iKaraoke

I havent been excited about any of the new gadgets until recently. A digital voice recorder was one – to help me remember and for journaling :D And now this. Things are beginning to look up. On the singing front, I’m tone deaf so watch out folks :D

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gmail crashing!

I’ve been busy since yesterday trying to find ways and means of accessing my gmail. It is my primary account and I download it via Apple Mail to my desktop. I use the browsers for checking my mail online. Currently both Safari 1.3.2 and Firefox 2.01a are crashing and mail has not downloaded any mail since yesterday. And it has been pretty erratic for a few days before that.

I can open my account in the browser but as i click on the link the browser crashes. The only thing that i can think of is using Google Calendar but i’m not sure why that should stop the mail from downloading to my desktop. I havent made any changes to Apple Mail and nor to Safari and until a week ago I was getting my mail regularly. I switched off old and new extensions in FireFox thinking that that might help but with no luck.
I’m now waiting to hear from gmail support. :-(

Update: May 24 – I heard from gmail support soon after and they told me that my problem was unique but i wasnt so sure of it until I had the same problem with a couple of links in wordpress.com. Clicking on options in the dashboard of my new blog was also crashing my browsers. When support on wordpress suggested that it may be related to my computer and browsers i had to agree.

I now view my gmail account in “html only” mode. and am hoping and praying that the problem will go away! The wordpress problem is not affecting me anymore as I opened a new blog from a wintel computer and can now access it from my powerbook. If there any suggestion re removing some plist file or some such do leave me a comment. thank you.

Update: Dec 19, 2006: I had forgotten that I had made this post. It was soooo long ago. A month ago I put up the same question in the Apple Support Forum along with the crash report. There are a lot of experts who frequent the forums and help newbies out.  Within a day a solution was found.

Apparently there is a problem with corrupt fonts and I removed the culprit from the Fonts folder and voila! my gmail is back in action and I’m thrilled. I’m back to emailing friends. previously i had to remember their ids!! Hoping this helps someone else with a similar problem.

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Keep your date!

Along with wanting to try just about everything that's new on the web lately, I'm a bit absent minded, forget things like appoinments :P

When online calendars became available, I went and checked them out and settled for 30boxes and was quite pleased with them. 3 weeks after which Google Calendar was out and i've moved to trying that out too because of the promised inter-connectivity with gmail. I am also hoping that somewhere in the near future all the things i'm dabbling in can all be linked and synchronised! On a shorter time frame, it would be nice to be able to differentiate between events and tasks.

While account synchronisation is what made me try Google Calendar, it seems that 30boxes will be providing it too soon.  And as for Google, I'm still waiting for them to add that bit of code to my gmail page.  
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A better chat experience with Gabbly

Found this chat box today and took it for a test drive. First the web version where you add your website address to the Gabbly one ie. http://gabbly.com/www.yoursite.com and you're off – opens your web page up with a chat box allowing anyone visiting you to have a chat. pretty neat i thought.

one of the new things with Gabbly was that it lists all the current people online and it also allows you to position it on the side, below and stretch or shorten the length of the floating box. And I especially love the idea of the RSS feed.

having enjoyed the experience so far, i then decided to try the embedded version and i've put it here to chat with some of my friends.

For me it was definitely worth the effort and chatting with it has been better than a couple of others that i've tried.

Shall put in an update after a few days of use.

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Customizing a bookmarklet for Tags

testing a mix between oddiophile, lorelle and ted ernsts bookmarklets for tagging. i wanted technorati to pick up the tags – ted ernst, not go away from wp – lorelle and the original script – oddiophile

so here goes.  Update :  it works just fine :D

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