Month: June 2006

Do you listen to a lot of music? Then you must be telling your friends more often than not what you are listening to. There are cool ways you can let the world know what music you are playing — online.

With the help of plugins you can display the current track you are playing in the status message of your messenger. The pic below shows my status in Windows Live Messenger.

Yahoo Messenger Plugins:

• Windows Media Player ystatus
• Winamp YMS Status Changer

Windows Live Messenger:

• Windows Media Player: In-built
• Winamp: MSN Messenger 7 Current Playing Song Works with Windows Live Messenger Beta as well

Trillian:

• Winamp MyTrillianStatus

So much for chat clients. You may also want to display your latest audio addiction on your blog. Thanks to social music sites like Last.fm you can do that with ease. Download and install the Audioscrobbler plugin for your media player software. Select a nice design for your music chart, get the required html code and put in on your site. You can also use it as your forum or e-mail signature. You are all set now — hit ‘play’.

And yeah, don’t forget to set your time zone in Last.fm site preferences for accurate audio-scroblling. Bring out the latent audio scrobbler in you. 😆

I have just given my site a complete design overhaul. There may be some glitches here and there yet to be fixed. Do tell me if you you notice anything. Also, tell me how it looks in your browser esp. if you have 800×600 screen area. And don’t forget to add your comments on the new design — whether you like it or not. Tell me how long it is taking to load.

I may add some more things in the sidebars today. And yeah I know I’ll have to fix the corners. 😛

P.S: I am yet to design a new favicon. Till then, the old one will be there.

My database went kaput. I could not fix it and restored a backup taken a few days back. In doing so, I lost some comments and some votes. 🙁

Lesson learnt: Take backup of database as often as possible. Every alternate day at least, if not daily.