voyhere.com

Most sites have search features nowadays. Sometimes they’re decent, sometimes they’re terrible. Sometimes they give you advanced sorting options, sometimes they don’t. Forget all that roulette and let the master do it: search any site with your warm and fuzzy Google. For example the following query narrows results to only those from voyhere.com:

search terms site:voyhere.com

Note the use of the top- and second-level domains only; don’t use any www or anything. Now you can employ/enjoy all of Google’s search refinements. If Google’s not your flavor I’m sure yours has the equivalent.

Thanks for the all caps megasized font in your header Greg.  I had to size that^ down to 33%.  God some of that stuff sucks.  But some of it is just pure gold.  Such as #61 little superstar.

http://www.youshouldhaveseenthis.com/

RSS.  You probably know what it is.  Or maybe you don’t.  Maybe you think you know, but don’t use it for whatever reason, like laziness or you don’t see the point of it.  If any of these is you, it’s gonna be ok, keep reading.

What it is: RSS is a stream of the articles from a site. It includes the article titles and an excerpt (or sometimes the entire post) and also sometimes an image or an attached mp3.  In your RSS reader, or a Firefox RSS plugin, you subscribe to these “feeds” of all of your favorite sites.  Then you can get a preview of them before you click them.

You may be asking:  “ok great but why is this any better than just visiting the sites directly?” I’ll tell ya why.

1) You visit a lot of sites.   2) Some of the sites don’t post new stuff all the time.   3) You still want to be aware of these posts without visiting that site all the time only to find no new content.

RSS is for you.  “Isn’t clicking each one the same as just visiting the site?” No, because of watch lists.  They basically alert you whenever one of your favorite sites gets a new post.  More on them in a bit.

If you’re in a work environment, browsing via RSS will probably result in many fewer bytes transferred, if you’re concerned about that sort of thing.  Or if you’re still on a (lol) dialup, RSS would be essential.

“I’m ready to check it out, what are my options?” Well you can get a dedicated RSS application, or you can use Firefox’s innate RSS capability Live Bookmarks, or use what I believe to be the best option: the Firefox Wizz RSS add-on.  If you’re with me, go get it and come back.  Here’s a screenshot.

Exhibit A.  Notice the toolbar and sidebar

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SomaFM.com’s famous Groove Salad can be streamed right to your iPhone, wherever you go.  The nice thing I discovered about this is that you can still do anything else on the phone while it plays, except for use the browser.  I didn’t think apps were allowed to “run” in the background, but apparently SomaFM’s implementation gets around that.  Pandora has that limitation, which I’m sure it will be freed of in the future when Apple relaxes the SDK.

Steps:

1. navigate to somafm.com in your iphone’s safari
2. tap ‘WiFi/3G Streams’ (unless you’re in the sticks then select Edge)
3. press the ‘+’, tap ‘Add to Home Screen‘, trim the name to SomaFM
4. tap a station and a player will appear, press play and the stream begins
5. return to your home screen and position your new SomaFM icon
6. go enjoy a bowl of groove salad.

While you’re at it, if you’ve got some extra change, throw a few into their coffers, it looks as though they could use it.

The chic from the Athene video, whose name is Tania Derveaux I guess, is doing some stunt for net neutrality, but only if you’re a virgin. This is pretty zany.

Link (nsfw) (via Gizmodo)