Pandora and foXpose

Tuesday, December 13. 2005

Just a quick one here, two things I've been using lately and I've been liking them a lot. The Pandora Music Guider, and the foXpose firefox plugin. Here is the lowdown...

foXpose

foXpose is a really cool plugin for FireFox, for people who use a lot of tabs. When you have several pages open from several websites, it looks something like this.

Problem

Looking at this, its very hard to tell where your Planet Minds page is, in which tab where you reading the football results etc. So you usually resort to hamming Ctrl + Tab, or using your scrollwheel to fly through them all looking for the right one. foxPose offers you a thumbnail preview of each tab, and as you may know, visual memory is very strong in most people, you'll very quickly find the page you were looking at.

Solution

I like, it works well for me, especially first thing in the morning when I open about 20 pages after logging in, and then can't remember which ones had the worthwhile stuff in them

Pandora

I just started using this today, and its just plain awesome. In previous days, people who were looking for new music usually had to ask some music-snob who'd scoff at all the music that you haven't heard (Think Jack Black in High Fidelity). Well Pandora is the online equivalent without the snobbiness. Its just great, and don't bother reading what I have to say, just go there and type in your favourite band then watch it work.

Linkage

foXpose by Viamatic. This needs FireFox 1.5
Pandora Just go there, and see what happens. This needs headphones.

Thats its and thats all.

Posted by Des Traynor in Cool Programs at 11:30 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yeah, trying that Pandora thing now, interesting stuff.

Re the foXpose extension, heh, cool, I was just looking at screenshots of the same feature in IE7 recently.

#1 Dave Cahill (Homepage) on 2005-12-13 12:17 (Reply)

The Pandora site is great, went down very well in my lab. You need to register to get full use and you need to be from the states. They only check zip code though so remember Florida = 33332

#2 David McNally on 2005-12-14 05:16 (Reply)

Or you can always remember Beverly Hills, 90210.
Or even just 00000. They're my favourites.

#2.1 Des Traynor (Homepage) on 2005-12-14 08:25 (Reply)

I'm considering naming my child Pandora Music. Regardless of gender.

#3 neuro-praxis (Homepage) on 2005-12-17 06:44 (Reply)

>>music-snob who'd scoff at all the music that you haven't heard (Think Jack Black in High Fidelity).

oh man, those people are so tedious.

regarding the foxpose plugin, it's interesting that ie7 has a feature like this, and it's treated as a high-priority feature (i.e. it's available and visible by default)

cheers
lb

#4 leon (Homepage) on 2006-02-16 22:21 (Reply)

Yeah, Pandora is really cool! I've used it before, but it was during the school year so it probably got lost in the "Awesome List!" in my mind XD

Anyways, it reminds me of this new music thing I've been trying out lately. It's really neat, and for the most part, I have excellent feedback on it. It is Musicovery.

Link:

http://www.musicovery.com/

#5 eLLen on 2007-05-26 22:17 (Reply)

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