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AirPort Express Plugin For WinAmp (Windows)
If you want an affordable wireless speaker solution for your home and like me you have a lot of restricted audio formats that won’t play in iTunes (or if iTunes just bugs the nipples off you) there is great news!
Remote Speakers Output Plug-In will send streams to your Airport Express speakers through Winamp! No iTunes installation required. It will even allow you to control the volume through Winamp and works with the remote control.
I just purchased it today for next to nothing through PayPal and it works beautifully! Eric, the creator, was very helpful and responded quickly when I had problems getting it to work at first. You can test it out for 2 weeks for free too.
Here’s the Winamp Plugin page with reviews.
Free Online Backup Solution for PC & Mac
Mozy Online Backup is now also available for Macs!
- 2GB Home Storage – FREE
- Unlimited Home Storage – $4.95
- Unlimited Business Storage – $3.95 + 50c/GB per month
Open/locked file support: Mozy will back up your documents whether they’re open or closed.
128-bit SSL encryption: The same technology used by banks secures your data during the backup process.
448-bit Blowfish encryption: Secures your files while in storage, providing peace of mind that your private data is safe from hackers.
Automatic: Schedule the times to back up and MozyHome does the rest.
New and changed file detection: MozyHome finds and saves the smallest changes.
Backs up Outlook files: Disaster-proof email protection.
Block-level incremental backup: After the initial backup, MozyHome only backs up files that have been added or changed, making subsequent backups lightning fast.
zenhabits
Instead of getting down on yourself for still being stuck on all those bad habits, consider using your brains nack of forming persistent habits to your complete advantage:
6 Rules for Dealing With Habits vs. Tasks
If your life gets a little uncomfortably chaotic at times to the point where you feel overwhelmed by all the things that need to get done, this article will really hit the right buttons. Once those daily tasks that you never get around to become ingrained habits it’ll free up your time and your life will become magically uncluttered. You’ll be in control of your life again. I’m looking forward to mastering this technique so that I can be more effective in the directions Im burning to move towards.
zenhabits is an intelligent read, filled with secrets to living well. I could easily take one of the articles and chew over it for a month before being ready to move onto the next one, but unfortunately Leo is too full of good ideas.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.â€
Aristotle
How to Travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less
Tim Ferris has discovered after traveling to 30 plus countries that packing minimalism is a real art. It can save you from lugging around heavy bags everywhere you stay so you can freely enjoy your adventure – just you and your backpack.
I practice what I’ll label the BIT methodof travel: Buy It There.
If you pack for every contingency—“better bring the hiking books in case we go hiking, better bring an umbrella in case it rains, better bring dress shoes and slacks in case we go to a nice restaurant,†etc.—carrying a mule-worthy load is inevitable. I’ve learned to instead allocate $50-200 per trip to a “settling fund,†which I use to buy needed items once they’re 100% needed. This includes cumbersome and hassle items like umbrellas and bottles of sunscreen that love to explode. Also, never buy if you can borrow. If you’re going on a bird watching trip in Costa Rica, you don’t need to bring binoculars — someone else will have them.
Tim also gives other tips on how to get what you want on a tight traveler budget, like negotiating a crazy cheap rate on a rental car or getting last minute dream accommodation in high season.
How to get rid of fleas without the use of pesticides*
Some more great tips from the UPCI’s Healthy Choices Healthy Lives magazine:
Fleeing From Fleas
- Thoroughly clean pet beds and resting areas both indoors and outdoors in hot soapy water
- Thoroughly and regularly vacuum floors, rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and crevices around corners to remove flea eggs and larvae
- Place vacuum bags in a sealed bag and throw out since flea eggs and larvae can survive inside the bags
- Use a special comb to remove fleas from your pet and comb on regular intervals to reduce occurrence of fleas
- Spray your pet daily with a 50/50 mixture of white vinegar and water
- Use an enzyme shampoo on your pet
- Mix brewer’s yeast, or vitamin B or garlic tablets in with pet food.
- Rub animal’s coat with fennel, rue, and rosemary
- Place eucalyptus seeds and leaves where the animal sleeps
*As a last resort and after consulting with a veterinarian, use topical liquid spot treatment
Quickly use images from other sites without hotlinking
Some sites, like this one, prevent images being displayed at all if you hotlink directly to them for your own site. If you’re going to nick an image off someone else’s site, its considered good manners to at least host the image yourself so that the original site doesn’t get bombarded with additional image requests using up their precious bandwidth.
ImgRed.com allows you to do just this, without the hassle of hosting the image yourself somewhere else and the whole faff of uploading etc.
All you do is this:
Just grab the URL of the image and append it to http://imgred.com/http://example.com/pic.jpg
Peasy! ImgRred.com copies the image to their server the first time it’s requested, then serves it up permanently.
Thanks LifeHacker.
Partly Cloudy
In my earliest years I grew up in a house where the weather was the most important thing the TV had to say, while the news only got to burble in the background as we dressed the cats up in bibs and bonnets and stuffed them into the doll bed. It was the only time my dad would ever tell us to “SHHHHH!!!!” and for 5 minutes the whole family’s attention would be on one single thing – the weatherman’s pointy stick. I guess if you spend every day, all day strangled by a suit and tie, knowing exactly which layers and fabrics to wear can make a huge difference in comfort.
Over the years weather reports have evolved from hokey little drawings with stuck on clouds to 3D generated plains that swoop and globes that spin and mesmerise, but nothing beats an accurate 5-day weather report.
I discovered AccuWeather.com through a nifty plugin for Firefox: Forecastfox shows you the temperature for now, today and tomorrow in your toolbar or statusbar. If you travel a lot you can switch between custom-made profiles with a right-click. And what I love the most about AccuWeather’s reports is the RealFeel® temperature, which takes into account chilly winds, humidity and levels of sunshine. I use it every day and so far its been 100% accurate. Maybe you’ll like it too.
Protect the Western Arctic Reserve From Big Oil
The Western Arctic Reserve, also known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, is the largest tract of unprotected, relatively pristine public land in the United States. The 23.5 million-acre reserve is home to imperiled polar bears, seabirds and one of the densest populations of nesting raptors in the world. Its shores and lagoons harbor beluga whales, seals, walruses and other marine mammals. The BLM is accepting comments on a planning document that sets the stage for oil and gas leasing in the western Arctic for decades to come. Help save this national treasure by telling the BLM to protect the Western Arctic Reserve from dirty fossil fuel development »
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