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This article was written on October 23, 2008 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

I’ve always enjoyed listening to Internet radio stations because I don’t have to worry about putting together my own playlists of music. iTunes has a decent selection of these radio stations available, but Apple has full control over what appears in that section of the media player. Fortunately that doesn’t mean you can’t add some of your own favorite radio streams to iTunes.

There are two caveats to the trick I’m about to show you:

• The radio streams that get added to iTunes won’t appear in the Radio section. Instead they’ll be showing up under the Playlist section, which may or may not be something that you want. Personally I like not having to go to the Radio section because it can be time consuming trying to find a particular radio station. This method will give you fast and easy access to your favorite stations.
• In order to add online radio stations to iTunes the stream will need to be available in a playlist (.PLS) format.

This makes Shoutcast a perfect example since they use the PLS format for their radio streams. Here are the needed instructions for setting up one of those streams in iTunes:

1. Visit Shoutcast.com and find a radio station you want to add to iTunes.
2. Right-click on the Tune In button, and choose the option to save the link/file to your computer.
   
3. Now you should have a .PLS file saved somewhere on your computer. Find the location of the file, and drag it into the sidebar in iTunes.
   
4. The radio station station should now appear under the Playlist section, and it can be renamed to anything you like. To start enjoying the streaming music all you have to do to is select the playlist that was just added, and choose from one of the available connections.
   

See, it’s easy. The only trick is finding the radio stations that are available in playlist (.PLS) format. Shoutcast is one of the only sites I know of with a vast directory of stations in this format, but I’m sure some of you probably know a few as well. Let us know about any of these sites in the comments, and enjoy listening to your favorite radio stations in iTunes!

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This article was written on July 16, 2008 by CyberNet.

DivShare currently has over 623,000 users despite moving away from their “unlimited” storage and bandwidth model that they once offered. To try and bring some appeal back to the service they have revamped the user dashboard with an interface that is a lot easier on the eyes.

In the new version of the site you can quickly move files around from one folder to another, and it now includes support for sub-folders. The whole thing behaves a lot more like a user’s desktop rather than just a file sharing service.

Aside from that you can now also organize music tracks in a playlist and photos in a slideshow using a simple drag-and-drop method. Then you can share links directly to the folder containing the media instead of needing to link to a specific file. Nothing earth shattering, but it can be useful.

For $9 per year ($0.75 per month) you can get a DivShare Personal account that gives you faster downloads, removes ads from the site, and more. If you want more storage or bandwidth you’ll need to upgrade to a plan that is at least $5.95 per month.

Let us know in the comments if you’re still using DivShare. I know quite a few of you were when it was unlimited, and I’m curious how many have managed to cope with the limitations.

DivShare Version 3.0

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Free For All Friday

We’ve become all too familiar with social sites like MySpace, Facebook, Bebo to name the few major ones. However, I wouldn’t consider any of the above mentioned to be family oriented or “safe” for all ages. This is where a website called famster comes in.  If you couldn’t tell from the name, famster is geared towards families and provides a safe environment for all ages.  They’ve been in the web hosting business for while and more recently the famster site (in beta) seems to be gaining in popularity.

Here’s a quick summary of some of the things you’re able to do. First, sharing photos and videos is made simple with Famster. There’s also the option to maintain a family blog, or family tree. You’re able to keep a list of your favorite sites, recipes, for others to see. These options can be public so that anyone who comes to the site can see them or they can be password protected and made private.

You’d want to first start by creating an account. This is simple and easy, and many people use their last name as their account name. The address for your account would be www.famster.com/insertfamilynamehere. This site was designed for the average everday user, no tech saviness required. One of the first things I noticed is that it is all designed with Flash which makes it easy on the eyes. This works just fine for the average user, although it does cause some limitations.

I took a look at their “about” page and they say that 1 in every five children will be approached by a predator on the Internet. Their goal is to provide a safe family friendly environment.  As part of this, they keep you up to date with current registered sex offender alerts and offer other security features.

 There’s lots of extras in case you’re not fully satisfied like a file cabinet where you can upload files to store or make available for your family and friends to view.  After creating an account and playing around with famster for a while, it seems to be a good option for families who are wanting a social site that is family friendly and safe with lots of features!

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This article was written on July 04, 2006 by CyberNet.

It has been about 3 weeks since the first Beta version of the Firefox-based Flock was released. For those people just hearing about it you will find many additional features that it has over Firefox and one of the nicest features is the built-in image uploading tools to Photobucket and Flickr.

So Flock already had Photobucket integrated into it, so why do they need to come out with their own version? Simple, they wanted to remove the Flickr access so that people only have one option for photo uploading. TechCrunch is guessing that Flock is giving Photobucket a share of the revenue from the integrated search box. So I wouldn’t be surprised if Flickr did something similar, except maybe they would team up with Flock to offer Flock with Flickr integrated into it.

Download The Original Flock
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View A Tour On The Photobucket Flock

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