FineTune.com – Create Playlists And Listen To Free Music
I've just been playing with finetune.com. This website allows you to pick an artist and they will build you a playlist featuring music by that artist and other related artists. You can then listen to that playlist and remove songs you dont like and add others you do!
The artists include mainstream popular artists! So you can listen to pretty much any band you want. There have not been many artists I was unable to find.
Once you have made a playlist, you can share it with others. There is even a widget for your blog or myspace profile etc. And even better! They have a special page optimised for the Nintendo Wiis built in browser so you can instantly turn that into somewhat of a media center. I recently used this at a party we hosted and it worked great!
How to bypass automated answering and get to a real human quickly
Are you sick of those annoying interactive voice response (IVR) systems that many companies use? "Press 1 for Customer Service, Press 2 for Sales," as you navigate an increasingly frustrating maze of options in an effort to reach a human being who can answer your question or process your sale."
ivrhacks.com is a directory of shortcuts to IVR systems for companies around the world. These shortcuts allow you to exit this maze as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, taking you to a human operator.
Much of the shortcuts have been sourced from the various lists and databases that are scattered across the internet and others have been submitted by readers. The list covers many countries and new additions are welcomed.
Free High Resolution Wallpapers
InterfaceLIFT have a fantastic collection of high resolution wallpapers available for download. I suggest clicking on most downloaded or highest rated to see some of the best images there.
This image by Chris Fenison is one of my favorites.
Download Free eBooks
Project Gutenburg is the oldest producer of free books on the internet. Their collection of 20,000 free books include such titles as The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, The Art of War and many others.
Most books are in html or txt format so you can read these on your PC or PDA.
Print Any Picture As Big As You Want
The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
One cool example where a ceiling has been completely covered can be found here http://selcouth.com/ceiling/.
In my apartment, our fridge doesnt match the rest of the kitchen so we measured it up and printed a picture the same dimensions of the front of it, then printed it, put it together, and stuck it on. It looks pretty good.
I found that I had more control over options from the downloaded version than were available in the online version. You also avoid the potential delay website users may be faced with if you get stuck in a queue for server resources.
Check it out here: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Listen To A Movie
For the cubicle workers of the world comes ListenToAMovie.com. This is a great website that allows you to listen to a movie, I've found this great when I'm working on something and want to hear something that can keep me awake without being too distracting. The audio tracks seem to be very light on bandwidth use but still remain pretty clear. So far I've listened to a couple of Seinfeld and Simpsons episodes, and Star Wars Episode 1. All I have watched before, I'm not sure how great it would be to try and listen to a movie you havnt seen before. Maybe I'll try it tomorrow.