AweSync: Bridging the Gap Between Lotus Notes and gCal
Do you use Lotus Notes? Do you use Google Calendar in your web browser or on your phone? I've searched high and low looking for an option to bridge this gap -- luckily AweSync solves that problem. Initially I was hesitant to give new software a shot because I had fears that I'd mess up my work calendar. Fear not! AweSync's software worked splendidly. The software setup could not be simpler -- I selected my Lotus Notes account, provided my Google Calendar authentication information, selected the Google Calendar I wanted to sync with, and clicked sync. That's it! I went from maintaining two calendars to having them completely in sync within 5 minutes of finding out about the application. The only suggestion I have that I hope AweSync eventually moves to use OAuth for the Google authentication instead of using username/password like they currently do. I highly recommend this application for anyone in the situation I was. $20 is a very reasonable price to make my life easier.
Playlist.com – Soon to be popular? Or dead?
A new site called Project Playlist has popped up recently. It lets you create playlists (duh) and listen to music for free. You can then embed these playlists as music players in various web pages, but not Facebook or MySpace for the moment. The record labels are quite obviously not too happy about this considering you can listen to full songs an unlimited number of times effortlessly. We'll see if this site sticks around, but for now try it out and enjoy the player embedded below:
How to download any song from Favtape.com
I've had my doubts about posting this information because quite honestly I'm a big fan of Favtape.com and I don't want to see them get in trouble and/or close. That being said, I suppose it can't hurt that much to put this information out there. Here's a quick and simple way to download any song that you can play on Favtape.com
- Use Firefox (it's not required but we all know that when you use IE god will kill kittens).
- Go to Favtape.com (duh) and find a song that you want.
- Click the name of the song to begin playing it.
- When you hover over the name of the song you should see something like this in the status bar: http://favtape.com/play/**Artist**/**Song**.mp3 (**Artist** and **Song* obviously replaced with the appropriate information). Click on the image to the right if you don't understand what I just said.
- Now you can't simply right click and "Save link as". You actually can't right click at all. So how do you get the MP3 file?
- Method 1 - no tweaking involved:
- Open a new tab in Firefox (control + t).
- Click + hold the Artist - Song Name and drag this onto the new tab you just created.
- That's it! The song should not start to download, but you'll need to rename it because it'll save as "fetch.mp3".
- Method 2 - tweaking the Firefox settings:
- In Firefox goes to Tools --> Options
- Go to the "Content" tab
- Find "Enable Javascript". To the right of this you will see "Advanced" click on this.
- Find "Disable or replace context menus". Uncheck this box.
- Click "OK" and then "OK" again.
- Now you can right click on the Artist - Song Name and select "Save link as".
- That's it! You can now just save the MP3 file we saw in the status bar earlier.
- Important Note: You may want to re-enable the "Disable or replace context menus" option because many web applications use this functionality.
