Music is becoming more and more social, right? Well, the folks at Facebook obviously think so. Facebook has just announced a new service which allows users to listen to music with your friends and do so in perfect synchronization. For now, the service only works with Spotify and Rdio, but more services should be added soon.

So how does it work? The new service is integrated with Facebook chat. In the chat sidebar, look for a note icon which indicates that a friend is listening to music. If you want to join in, hover over that person, and click on the “Listen with” button. You should now be able to listen to whatever your friend is listening to, thus having your very own private DJ. This works in larger groups as well, in which one person controls the music and the rest listen.

Since the whole thing is part of Facebook’s chat, you can talk with your friends about what your listening to, “just like when you’re jamming out at a performance or dance club”. While the service seemed at first like a way for Spotify-deprived people (like me) to enjoy some Spotify action, it seems that all parties have to be using the service in question. This means that if I don’t have Spotify installed, I can’t listen in on a friend who’s using Spotify. Too bad, but legally understandable.

The new service should be rolling out to all users within the next few weeks, so don’t panic if you can’t see it yet. It remains to be seen whether users in countries which don’t get to enjoy Spofity and Rdio even get the new service, since it’s going to be quite useless for them anyway.

What do you think of the new service?

Source: ZDNet

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/spotify-logo.jpg" alt="" />Following their interesting href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/spotify-expands-mobile-reach-windows-phone-7-app-news/">Windows Phone 7 launch, href="http://www.spotify.com">Spotify has released an update for its much-loved href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spotify/id324684580?mt=8">iOS app. Spotify’s app, while only available in a limited number of countries, is one of the most popular ways to listen to music on iOS devices, and if you were getting worried about the Facebook spam it creates, you’re going to love this update.

First and foremost, the new version only works on iOS 4.0 or later, and works best on iOS 5.0 or later. iOS 5 users can now view cover art and metadata for songs right on the lockscreen, so it’s much easier to stay on top of what you’re listening to even if you’re not using your phone. The second major update is in the privacy settings, and this is an important one.

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In the past, if you chose to connect your Spotify account to Facebook, your Facebook friends got to see an update for every song you listened to. While this is nice, it might be quite spammy if you use Spotify a lot. The new version lets you toggle Facebook sharing, and also listen to music in a private session, which means that posting will be temporarily disabled, but will resume in your next session.

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This update is not huge, but a very important one for people who like to share their music on Facebook some of the time. Will you rush to get the update or does it seem negligible to you?

Source: href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/11/15/spotify-updates-for-ios-with-new-cover-art-features-and-sharing-settings/" rel="nofollow">TheNextWeb

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/spotify-logo.jpg" alt="" />Following their interesting href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/spotify-expands-mobile-reach-windows-phone-7-app-news/">Windows Phone 7 launch, href="http://www.spotify.com">Spotify has released an update for its much-loved href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spotify/id324684580?mt=8">iOS app. Spotify’s app, while only available in a limited number of countries, is one of the most popular ways to listen to music on iOS devices, and if you were getting worried about the Facebook spam it creates, you’re going to love this update.

First and foremost, the new version only works on iOS 4.0 or later, and works best on iOS 5.0 or later. iOS 5 users can now view cover art and metadata for songs right on the lockscreen, so it’s much easier to stay on top of what you’re listening to even if you’re not using your phone. The second major update is in the privacy settings, and this is an important one.

class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/spotify-ios-lockscreen.jpg" alt="spotify-ios-lockscreen" width="326" height="426" border="0" />

In the past, if you chose to connect your Spotify account to Facebook, your Facebook friends got to see an update for every song you listened to. While this is nice, it might be quite spammy if you use Spotify a lot. The new version lets you toggle Facebook sharing, and also listen to music in a private session, which means that posting will be temporarily disabled, but will resume in your next session.

class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/spotify-ios5.jpg" alt="spotify-ios[5]" width="533" height="378" border="0" />

This update is not huge, but a very important one for people who like to share their music on Facebook some of the time. Will you rush to get the update or does it seem negligible to you?

Source: href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/11/15/spotify-updates-for-ios-with-new-cover-art-features-and-sharing-settings/" rel="nofollow">TheNextWeb

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/spotify-logo.jpg" alt="" />Following their interesting href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/spotify-expands-mobile-reach-windows-phone-7-app-news/">Windows Phone 7 launch, href="http://www.spotify.com">Spotify has released an update for its much-loved href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spotify/id324684580?mt=8">iOS app. Spotify’s app, while only available in a limited number of countries, is one of the most popular ways to listen to music on iOS devices, and if you were getting worried about the Facebook spam it creates, you’re going to love this update.

First and foremost, the new version only works on iOS 4.0 or later, and works best on iOS 5.0 or later. iOS 5 users can now view cover art and metadata for songs right on the lockscreen, so it’s much easier to stay on top of what you’re listening to even if you’re not using your phone. The second major update is in the privacy settings, and this is an important one.

class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/spotify-ios-lockscreen.jpg" alt="spotify-ios-lockscreen" width="326" height="426" border="0" />

In the past, if you chose to connect your Spotify account to Facebook, your Facebook friends got to see an update for every song you listened to. While this is nice, it might be quite spammy if you use Spotify a lot. The new version lets you toggle Facebook sharing, and also listen to music in a private session, which means that posting will be temporarily disabled, but will resume in your next session.

class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/spotify-ios5.jpg" alt="spotify-ios[5]" width="533" height="378" border="0" />

This update is not huge, but a very important one for people who like to share their music on Facebook some of the time. Will you rush to get the update or does it seem negligible to you?

Source: href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/11/15/spotify-updates-for-ios-with-new-cover-art-features-and-sharing-settings/" rel="nofollow">TheNextWeb

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/screenshot1428.jpg" alt="multiple user accounts on ipad" />I share my precious iPad with three other members of my family, and with occasional guests who drop by from time to time. Each user has his or her own e-mail and Facebook accounts, which typically means they have to log out of my accounts to access theirs. This is not a huge problem, but since Apple has already established a multiple sign-in accounts feature for Macs, it only makes sense to have something similar for iOS devices.

Perhaps Apple hasn’t added this feature because secretly it would like to have each member of the family own their own iPad. Well, until that happens, the developers at Ghori Networks have created a workable solution, called href="http://www.ourpadapp.com/">Our Pad. The name might not be exciting, but the features this application offers may very be useful to those of us who share their iPad with other people.

How It Works

With Our Pad, you and other members of your family or group can set up separate accounts for signing into e-mail and social networking sites, including Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and Twitter.

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As Ghori Networks states :

Passwords for your accounts are not transferred anywhere and are strictly managed within the device using the Apple Keychain lockbox.

This setup simply saves users the trouble of having to sign out of and into similar accounts.

You sign out of a user account by pressing the Home button or by tapping your name. If you forget to sign out, Our Pad will automatically sign you out when your iPad is idle or when it goes to sleep.

Adding Accounts

Adding accounts in Our Pad is pretty easy. When you launch the application, it asks you for the name of a user. You could also simply add an alternate account for say work related sites.

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In the next screen you draw what is called a long pattern to unlock the account. You should make that pattern as easy or as difficult as it needs to be depending upon the user and the level of security needed. This lock pattern feature is what many iPad users would probably like to see used for logging into the iPad itself.

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If you forget your lock pattern, you will need to delete the user account in question and set it up again.

After clicking the next button, you simply add the accounts that you want to log into. The username and password for each account will be saved so that you do not have to type them in again.

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Once you’re set up, you can easily switch between your established email and social networking accounts. In my test of the application, I find Our Pad to be amazingly fast and intuitive.

Fortunately, you can also change the name of and/or reset the log-in pattern for existing accounts, as well delete them altogether.

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I’m not a big fan of the app’s design, but I’m very hopeful about the future potential of this iPad-only application.

Wish List

Ghori Networks has already said that future updates of this application will include other sites. The developers invite you to let them know about different web-based services you would like to see added.

It would be great if Apple added the ability to access multiple user accounts on iPad so that each user has their own set of applications and user settings. No doubt this will occur in future versions of the iPad, but for now Ghori Networks provides a practical solution that many of us iPad owners will want to use.

Let us know what you think of Our Pad, which is free for a limited time.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/image62.png?54167" alt="send text to phone" />I spend a large chunk of my life in front of my computer. For those rare times I need to leave my chair and actually go do something in the real world, I sometimes want to take a chunk of the Web with me. Perhaps it’s a link to a Google Map helping me get to where I want to go (assuming it’s not the bathroom), or a bit of text about the place.

Google already offers something called class="vt-p" href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.chrometophone&hl=en">Chrome to Phone, but it’s very limited. It works only with Chrome, and only with Android devices.   class="vt-p" href="http://sitetophone.com/">Site to Phone, despite the similar moniker, actually supports all major browsers (not just Chrome) and all major phone OS’s (not just Android).

Upon arriving at the website, you’re presented with a huge button that simply cannot be missed:

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Tapping the button generates an ID, and invites you to browse to it from the phone. This is something you’ll have to do manually. Grab your phone and tap out the address as it appears on the screen.

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Let’s do that right now.

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Rather than get an APK file or a Market link with a purpose-build Android app, we’re presented with a simple list of instructions using what the phone already offers. In other words, this is just a glorified bookmark. Some people may think it’s a bit low-tech, but personally, I like the idea of making my phone do more without actually installing new apps.

The instructions didn’t work exactly as planned, because I use an alternative launcher. I had to add the bookmark manually to my launcher ( class="vt-p" href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gau.go.launcherex">Go Launcher EX), but once that was done, it looked like this:

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Tapping the button indeed brought me back to the page, where I clicked the “Complete Setup” button. Instantly, the window changes – I’m in:

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That’s it! I can now paste anything in that box, hit Send to phone, and it will show up on the smartphone version of the website. Sure, the downside is that I won’t get push notifications and links won’t automatically open, but it took mere seconds, was free, and did not require any software installation. Also, note the huge range of mobile OS’s and browsers supported: Since Site to Phone is implemented in such a simple way, it can easily support just about anything that has Web access.

Okay, let’s try it out by sending some text. I just entered a bit of text on the desktop, hit Send, and tapped the shortcut on my home screen. The page reloaded on my phone’s browser, and I got this:

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Yes, so they’ve added a needless escape character (I typed “I’ve” and they rendered “I\’ve”), but other than that, that’s exactly what I wrote. I can now easily copy and paste that text. Sadly, sending a link didn’t work as well as I expected it to:

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As you can see, the URL wasn’t turned into a link. That’s a bit of a downer, but maybe I’ve done something wrong (please enlighten me in the comments, if so).

Back on the desktop side of things, you may not want to go to the Site to Phone website everytime you want to send over a quick snippet of text to your phone. So now would be a good time to look at the browser tools Site to Phone offers:

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So there’s a bookmarklet (for anything and everything), an IE Accelerator and a Chrome extension. Let’s try the Chrome extension. We get a toolbar button, and clicking it instantly sends the current page to the phone:

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Tapping the link on my phone’s home screen launches me instantly onto the site I sent to the phone:

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But getting to my previous notes is difficult – going to the website on the phone just sends me to MakeUseOf again. I tried several times, but kept getting the same thing. This may be one case where this minimalistic app oversteps its bounds and tries to be a bit too clever for the user’s own good. To fix this, go into the class="vt-p" href="http://sitetophone.com/options.php">options page and enable Device control panel:

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Now, when you tap the shortcut icon on the phone home screen, you’re taken to the Site to Phone page even if you’ve just sent a link to the phone.

The Chrome add-on also lets you send text to your phone effortlessly. Simply select any chunk of text in Chrome and right-click it:

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Tapping “Send text to phone” just works; you don’t get a notification or any other bells and whistles, but when you go to the website on your phone, you’re going to find that text waiting for you right there.

Bottom Line

Site to Phone gets a thumbs-up from me. I love the minimalistic way this solution uses existing, simple and widely supported Web technologies, and the huge amount of devices and browsers it supports. If you’re looking for a low-fat way to get links and text to your phone, look no further.

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class="align-left" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 5px; float: right;" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HowRandom-Logo.png" alt="chat anonymously" />When you really think about it, what makes college and university great? It’s not just the education you get. It’s the people you meet and the conversations you have with them. It’s that great melting pot of ideas that comes from having smart people with different fields of expertise sharing the same space and chatting randomly. With all that talent together comes all sorts of great synthesis and innovation. This is how many great business ideas and scientific breakthroughs come about, really. It’s from bouncing your ideas off other smart people who specialise in something you don’t.

So where can we chat anonymously with other students? This is often difficult for people at rural schools or students studying long-distance. class="vt-p" href="http://howrandom.com/">HowRandom aims to help you there – it’s essentially text-based ChatRoulette for tertiary students.

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Sign-Up

To start using class="vt-p" href="http://howrandom.com/">HowRandom, all you need to do is enter your school name. You’re then in the system as an unverified chatter. Of course, this means anyone could be chatting using an unverified account. So, keep that in mind while you’re talking to people.

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To become a verified chatter, you need to enter a valid .edu email address. This does mean alumni who still forward their alumni alias could probably sneak in and be verified. But, since they’re university educated and probably not too far past graduation, it’s not such a bad thing.

Using HowRandom

The first thing you’ll notice when using HowRandom is that it’s very simplistic and anonymous. There’s no pictures, no usernames, and no other fancy stuff. It’s just text, plain and simple. There’s potential for the verified accounts to add a little personal data in the future, but that would optional. You could always stay anonymous if you like.

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The conversation potential is limitless — some people might use it for business networking, some might want to philosophise, while others might just use it to pick up. It will be random and it might lead to making real friends. You never know.

To move on to the next person, just click next. For instance, if you want to restrict your chats to just verified members, just press next until you’re chatting with someone verified. If you specifically want to talk to someone from a certain school, you could do the same.

Why Would You Use HowRandom?

HowRandom is really just about giving you the option to chat to someone you might not meet in real life. You might want to meet students in other cities or countries or to discuss the bigger problems in life and try to work through answers. It’s really up to you.

Future of HowRandom

I love the idea of HowRandom. The exclusivity of college students means that you’ve got bright, young minds to chat to. It’s got the potential to be very big. My only worry about the service is what happens when young people have anonymous chats and believe they’re safe.

If HowRandom could be linked to other chat services and social networks it would have more staying power in the market. It’s hard to say how long people remember to re-visit sites in order to chat to people. If there were a way of auto-connecting when you logged into Facebook, Twitter or your IM client it might prompt more chatters to remember the service is there.

There’s also no business model or advertising as of yet, so it’s anyone’s guess as to whether this social experiment will stick around for the years to come. Hopefully it will, because it’s an idea worthy of more attention.

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Kon-Boot Lets You Bypass Logon for Windows and Linux by britec.co.uk www.piotrbania.com Kon-Boot is an prototype piece of software which allows to change contents of a linux kernel (and now Windows kernel also!!!) on the fly (while booting). In the current compilation state it allows to log into a linux system as ‘root’ user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to root. For Windows systems it allows to enter any password protected profile without any knowledge of the password. It was acctually started as silly project of mine, which was born from my never-ending memory problems Secondly it was mainly created for Ubuntu, later i have made few add-ons to cover some other linux distributions. Finally, please consider this is my first linux project so far Entire Kon-Boot was written in pure x86 assembly, using old grandpa-geezer TASM 4.0. it provides support for Microsoft Windows systems and also the Linux systems listed in the next sections. Kon-Boot for Windows enables logging in to any password protected machine profile without without any knowledge of the password. This tool changes the contents of Windows kernel while booting, everything is done virtually – without any interferences with physical system changes. So far following systems were tested to work correctly with Kon-Boot (however its quite possible other versions of listed Windows systems may be suitable as well): Windows versions of logins that it supports …

Greetings viewers! This is a tutorial I have put together to show you how to make a Let’s Play or walkthrough with commentary from a game console. This will use the Dazzle DVC 170 and Camtasia Studio. Any capture or editing software (like Windows Movie Maker, or Sony Vegas) can be used, but this will show the steps I used to set up my LP videos. Your own preference of tools with these tips for managing audio/video are all that will be needed to set up your own LP’s. Things you will need: 1) Microphone 2) Dazzle device or similar 3) A/V splitter or amplifier Hope you find this informative, enjoy! NOTE: I can create a tutorial for making Let’s Plays from an emulator if people would like to see that. Leave me a comment or a message if you would be interested. Part 2: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com

I’ve been using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit RC for several months now but don’t think I’ve ever shown it off! Here are the basics and a good look at it in action. Note the jerky motion and distortions are caused by Adobe Premiere and the codec used by Cam Studio 2.0 to record the AVI file.