Mozilla Songbird a Media platform, which allows you to enhance your Songbird player through various plugins. Here they are the most useful plugins for the Songbird.

1. mashTape - Like your favourite old school mix tape, mix and mash up various web sources for your library enhancing pleasure. Ribbed for comfort.

2. USB mass-storage device - Allows you to use USB mass-storage media devices in Songbird

Allows you to use any device that supports USB Mass Storage as a portable device that you can manage media on.From a USB stick to an Archos to a Creative MuVo. As long as it can be configured to act like a UMS device, this add-on will be able to help you manage your media on it.

3. MinimizeToTray (Songbird) - Make Songbird to shrink into your taskbar. Normally Songbird doesn’t have this feature. This plugin rocks

4. Me.dium - Looking for new music? Me.dium makes music sharing truly collaborative.

With Me.dium, you’ll get a social browsing add-on that brings you and your friends together online for the first time. Now, you can easily:

• Discover and share new music
• Laugh at new YouTube videos together
• Browse Facebook photos from last night’s shenanigans

5. Tab Effect - Animated screens when you press tab.

Add effects when current tab is changed and this extension uses DirectX 8.

6. Songbird Developer Tools - A collection of essential utilities for feathers designers and extension developers.

7. iPod Device Support - Adds support for iPod devices.

You would have used iTunes for syncing your iPod. Now here comes a plugin which allows Songbird to sync your iPod.

8. QuickTime Playback - Allows you to play FairPlay Audio files in Songbird

9. Wikipedia Extension - Get the current song’s artist info from Wikipedia.

Mozilla Songbird a fantastic multimedia player which can play any kind of video, audio formats. I’ve switched to Songbird few weeks back and started exploring it. It’s amazing!! It plays all kind of file formats in my notebook. From MP3, MP4, WAV, AVI, MPG etc. Songbird is built on plugins, which allows you to attach any songbird plugin and play any kind of file format. And cool thing is It also supports IPod sync.

Songbird a Music Mashups

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. It provides a feature to browser any music, video site, and drag drop any kind of song or video file. So it saves the time of downloading the file through a download manager, and importing the files to a playlist.

Cool Features

• Sync with iPod
• Browse any sites inside Songbird
• Add any music or video into Songbird while your browse in the Songbird Browser. So you don’t need to download separately and then import into the player.
• You don’t require any special codecs to play the files. All you need is plugins which you will get in the plugin repository.

Like Mozilla Firefox, Songbird is also released as a OpenSource and evolving as a music platform, where in you can build lots of plugins for playing anykind of media, visualizations etc.Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web.

You can find a handful of add-ons for songbird in the Songbird Nest.

Firefox 3 blocks Google Adsense and want to filter it as a exceptional Website or warns to quit the site! Funny!!!

I wonder why Google hasn’t updated it’s Security Certificate?

This even occurs with IE 7+. If you have tried it!

Firefox 3 stopping Google Adsense

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Internet Explorer 7 stopping Google Adsense

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Are you a frequent traveller and you have to purchase a wine in France for you and collect fine jewellery for your wife in Paris and fly to meet your business clients in Australia and then reach your hometown in Delhi? Swoosh…you have loads of things to do in lots of places. And you are bored of all the same linear TO-DO list structure and you want to see your tasks on the location wise.

Remember the milk offers you a facility to tag the location to your task and then view all your task on the Google Map.

The below map displays my task at two places one at Chennai and other at Delhi. The numbers indicate the number of tasks in the location

When you click on the number balloon on the location it will display the task for the location.

Yahoo had moved to a new advertisement strategy by bringing the advertisements to the Radio. It’s been reported that Yahoo is running the ads on Radio in San Fransisco. This move is termed as an effort made by Yahoo to grab the market share from Google and make the advertisers aware that there is an alternative to Google.

This is a great strategy by Yahoo as it introduced a lot of cool features like ‘Search Assist’, ‘Multimedia Result’, Shortcuts etc.

Source : News.com