GrooveShark online music Player in True Sense!!!

Yesterday i came across an online music player http://listen.grooveshark.com/ thanks to bhasad!!!!

It is just an online music player which i ever wanted.

I usually listen to hindi as well as english songs.I have tried several music websites like phulki.com and others english ones.But hindi ones don't contain english songs library and the english ones don't contain hindi song library.

Grooveshark has quite a good collection of hindi as well as english.Also the User Interface is purely awesome!!!!

Although i didn't like the add bar at the side of the player.So thought of removing it.

So in chrome i opened the javascript console(it is control->developer->javascript console)

Or if you have firebug plugin installed in FF.Then open firebug javascript console there.

I remember IE8 also has javascript console.

Anyways wrote the following two javascript statements in th console and the add bar disappeared and the music player was visible on full screen.

document.getElementById("sidebar").style.display = "none";

document.getElementById("mainContentWrapper").style.marginRight = "0px";

Note:This change will remain only for the time the site is there in the browser.If you will open the site again you have to run the command again.

Thinking of writing a plugin for chrome on this.So that it can work automatically.

Will let you know guys.

Till that time groove guys...cheers!!!!!

Getting video links from online video websites.

Hey everyone,

Sometimes you visit a website which actually shows some series or movie but ask you to fill the some weird marketing form before actually viewing the video.The video is although visible but behind the disable background.

Well most of these sites use megavideo.com to actually upload the content.So if you can get the link of that video that's it!!!!!

For that you can just open the html source of the page.Usually in Ie right click->view source,

Firefox-> right click->view page source.This is the html of the page.

Now you can search for the video link in this source.Either you can search for "megavideo" or "object"(this will give you the flash object html in that you can find the url to the video.)

In my case i came across it when i was looking the series spartacus blood and sand i got a link for the website http://www.watchspartacus.info website it asked to fill the form although the video was visible behind the covers.Got the link from the html and watched all the episodes.

Enjoy Guys.

English Music Search Engine!!!!

If you are a fan of english music and don't get the mp3 easily there is a search engine specially designed for english music http://skreemr.com/ a great music search engine and gives direct mp3 links.Give it a try.

Pidgin....More then just an IM...

I started using pidgin from the time i started using ubuntu....Well everything started from a search to have gtalk on ubuntu.Why i use GTalk,well google did a great thing integrating orkut with gtalk all my friends on orkut automatically were added to gtalk and so always connected...

Well after reading certain blogs of how to install gtalk through wine and nearly doing but still didn't work ,i came to know about the application Pidgin(for Gnome) and Kopete(for KDE) as i had ubuntu i opted for pidgin and from then till now i have not used Gtalk again ya even on windows too.(PIDGIN IS THERE FOR WINDOWS TOO)

U might be wondering that how come i was looking for Gtalk and got that solved through a third party software not related in any way to google.Well pidgin uses the Jabber protocol to connect to Gtalk and other gateways to connect to yahoo and others messenger so yes only one client for every messenger. The list contains many like AIM,MSN,YAhoo,GTALK,MyspaceIM,IRC's and many more.

One problem with Gtalk and the yahoo messenger is that if you have two accounts on them and you want to login on both of them at one time,then you don't have any option to do that.But pidgin solves it,and believe me or not it is really a great feature any number of gmail account logined at a time.

But still pidgin doesn't support voice and video as in gtalk or ym...but i don't need it and have skype whose voice quality is best in all of them and is available for windows and linux.

So Pidgin is a a very usefull im clien and would be one of the first software which i will install if i set up a new machine agian.

You can download the pidgin from here...

http://www.pidgin.im/

Enso...It makes everything so easy.

Some time back i came across a software called as Enso...
It is a helpful piece of software and once you start using you get so addicted that you don't want to use windows without it.

Ok so what is the software all about..Well it helps to create shortcuts in windows so you don't have to move your fingers over the touchpad every now and then clicking the start menu and scanning the all program list  to get the program,which btw is so monotonous....Moreover i get tired every time waiting for the all program list to show(windows is so slow).

So with this software installed i just press the caps key and write the name of program with few strokes i see the name of the program and leaving the caps it opens the program for me...For a detailed use and command set you can visit the site.In the beginning it's somewhat difficult to hold the caps key and type but it becomes part of the habit as the time goes by.

Although there are many softwares which are like this,one such is Launchy (which too is a  great piece of software i used to use earlier it has many features) but one of the feature of Enso that makes the difference  is that it can learn new commands so easily ,i can make my own commands.For example i needed one command for openning one of the batch file i created and didn't appear on the start menu so i made enso learn to open my batch file and then i can just open it by using caps and some keys.Same was to open tomcat which didn't appear in the start menu now i just type  +open tom and tomcat starts off.

So Enso is one such software i am addicted to and will be one of the first softwares which will be on my system if i install new windows.

You can get the software at this link.
http://humanized.com/