Personality tests and tools

This is a very good little site with many personality tests and tools for you to play with.

Release of the new Skids live album

Today sees the release of the Skids live album, which is something, IMHO, is long over due and a very welcome addition to any CD collection.  If you are not familiar with the band then they were a punk rock/new wave 4 piece from Dunfermline in Scotland and founded by Stuart Adamson (guitar, vocals), Richard Jobson (vocals), Tom Kellichan (drums) and Willie Simpson (bass).  One of their songs “Saints are coming” was recently covered by U2 and Green day which kinda led to the unearthing and release of this live album.  I only ever saw the band live once during Stuart Adamson’s tribute concert (after he committed suicide) where is son Calum took his fathers place and the original line up where back after a long time away —- increadble concert and sorry I never saw them before then.

Masquerade Masquerade: the Skids Live [Live] is out now and bloody good !!!!!

Technorati tags: Skids, live albums, scottish bands, punk, new wave

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Nose-ify yourself

Its coming up to red nose day and Comic Relief have come up with a site where you can stick your red nose on.

Go on, go on go on go on go on go on go on, go ON

Test from live writer to my new wordpress blog

It is nice when technology just works and I seem to be experiencing this right now ……. just setting up Live Writer beta to talk to this new blog and I have to say there has been no kicking or screaming.

From Live Writer menu bar choose WebLog, “Add WebLog account”

Simply go through the wizard prompts and tell Live Writer your blog details

The template which is used from wordpress on live writer has some overlaps on the title bar, but it all looks good.

Live Writer is certainly turning out to be a very VERY good free Microsoft product and with the TAG intergration it is damn easy to build blog entries.

I know the Live Writer is not the only blog software out there by any means, but it just feels nice to use.

Technorati tags: wordpress, live writer

tumblr

Its been a long day and just as I was heading off to bed I picked up on a free tool for creating tumblelogs. Tumblr lets you quickly build a blog and post thoughts, photos, videos, quotes, links and conversations to it in a no messing, easy manner.

Yip its free and yes I’m there 

twitter me .. twitter you .. twitter anyone

twitter is a fast paced mini blog which enables you to update your friends, family and practically anyone else on the planet on your where’abouts, your thoughts, random ramblings and just about anything else you want to share.  You can use IM, SMS or WEB to post and its quick, easy and very popular !!!

my twitter 

FeedBurner

Feedburner is another way to get noticed in the blogging and blogcast world. THe site is a provider of media distribution and audience engagement service for blogs and RSS feeds … some big names on there and looks like a big social network.

Floola ipod cross platform manager

Floola is an ipod manager which needs no installation, i.e. it can run straight from your ipod, it runs over Linux, Windows and OSX, it has many features such as playlists, lyrics support, podcasts, notes, copy and artwork, oh and plus video too.

Want to know the best bit —- its Freeware.

I have been using Anapod Explorer for a while now and really like it a lot but there is no Linux version, so I can’t jump between work and home PCs at the moment ….. Floola may be a work around….

Spotback news web site

SpotBack is a personalized news WEB site which, like MANY other personalized news WEB sites, lets you trawl through the news in areas of interest to you. You can set up news alerts to an email account filtered by key tags as well but what seems cool is the ability to follow music news, which if they have any mp3 links attached to will play for you. Nice idea.

BBC steps closer to offering Internet TV

It looks as though the BBC will continue their listen again radio service, where you can hear radio shows up to 7 days after they air, with an on demand Internet TV service for ALL BBC TV shows. A select number of shows have been available online for a while now, but this promises to be much, much bigger.

Channel 4 (also in the UK) tried something similar but a lot of their content was not free, so you would have been just as well to record the show yourself, BBC however say that their content will be free although you will only be able to download a show up to 7 days after it has been on and then only store it on your HDD for up to 30days.

They are calling it iPlayer and a final decision on the service will be made before May 2nd 2007 after public consultation.