You know all those videos that people keep talking about that they’ve seen on YouTube or elsewhere… the star wars kid, the evolution of dance, AfroNinja, anything by Will Ferrell. They spread fast, and before you know it someone in a meeting is making a subtle reference to a cat playing the piano and you don’t get the joke. Because you haven’t seen the YouTube video. You laugh along, but inside you’re crying. All because you haven’t seen the funniest video ever and they have.
Well, lucky for you help is on the way!
A site called ViralVideoChart.com tracks popular videos as posted on blogs and web sites. If there is a sudden surge in how much attention a video is getting, it shows up on their charts. If you monitor their feed, you’ll get to see today what everyone will be talking about tomorrow. And what could possibly be more important than that?
I bring all this up because I just released a new iGoogle gadget: Latest Viral Videos from ViralVideoChart.com
It lets you put the latest viral video list on your iGoogle portal page and watch as new ones come in. It embeds the video right there on the page for you and lets you mark them as seen once you’ve watched each one. That way you don’t have to see the same list all the time.
So hopefully the next time you’re in a meeting and someone is joking about that hilarious dog who just couldn’t get that pail off its head, you’ll be able to LOL and say… “I know, isn’t that hilarious? I saw that THREE DAYS AGO, you douche! Oh, SNAP!”
Ever come across a song that has an especially long intro that annoys you? Or a “hidden track” at the end with a minute of silence between? Or a second half of the song that you don’t like as much as the first?
if it’s an mp3, you might think you need to convetr to wav, open a wav editor, trim the song, then re-convert to mp3 to get just the part of the track that you actually want to listen to. Not worth the effort!
But there is a better way: mpTrim
This Windows utility lets you trim an mp3 file directly, without an impact on its sound quality because it works directly on the mp3 contents rather than converting to wav first. You can fade in and out at the timings you pick to trim out the junk that you always skip over anyway. It’s free and very handy when you need it!
I like to work as efficiently as possible, so I end up installing and trying lots of little utilities and programs that might make life easier. Most of them get uninstalled a short time later, but a few stick. Folder Guide is one of them.
The idea is simple: Anywhere you are browsing your Windows file system, you can right-clicking and jump to one of your preset directories. If any application opens up a Save or Open dialog, you can right-click in it to quickly go to your common place to put files. Rather than scrolling around in the tree view in Explorer, you can quickly jump to the directories you use most often.
I have already found it very useful after only 2 days of use. I recommend giving it a try.
Folder Guide web site
