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Manage And Play Internet Radio In Google Chrome

I have made the full switch to listening exclusively to Internet Radio stations many years ago. The core reasons? Accessibility while working on the PC, less ads and talking while songs are playing, and better recording possibilities (see our StreamWriter review for an excellent program that can be used for that purpose.

I usually use desktop media players like AIMP3 to listen to Internet Radio stations, as it is a lot more comfortable than having to keep a streaming page open all the time in the web browser. That’s especially true if you have to restart the browser every now and then.

Radio Player Live is an excellent Chrome extension that offers a great radio listening experience for Chrome users. First time users need to add at least one station to the extension before they start accessing the selected stations via the extension’s Chrome address bar button.

This is done on the extension’s page. A click on Add radio stations lists all the available options. Users can add a station from the gallery listing maintained by the extension developers, add stations from popular sites such as the Shoutcast directory or Digitally Imported, or add stations manually.

All stations from the gallery can be added with a single click of the mouse button. They list many terrestrial stations, like RTL and RTL2, Virgin Radio, BBC 1 to BBC 6 or .977.

Third party stations lead to websites from where the stations need to be added. The extension adds buttons next to each station on those sites which can be used to add the selected radio station to the extension.

A click on the Radio Player Live button loads an overlay prompt to add the selected station to the radio player. The station’s name, website, logo and category can be customized here.

The station can then be selected via the extension’s button in the Chrome interface. Stations can be sorted into categories for easier identification. You can do that when you add a station, or later on under Manage my stations in the program options.

Users who do not like the theme can modify it extensively in the options. From background and header text colors to borders, category names and srollbars. Nearly every visual aspect can be modified.

The player window itself displays a list of radio stations, the currently playing station, the volume, and pause and stop options. You can switch to another radio station with a click.

The program supports VLC and Windows Media Player plugins, but I was not able to get those to work in the Chrome browser. It is not clear from the description whether they are used to play the radio stations in the browser, or if the music is redirected to the desktop player from where they are then played.

Google Chrome users who like to listen to Internet radio while surfing should take a closer look at Radio Player Live.

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Manage Social Site Notifications With Notification Control

You probably remember the My Permissions service which I reviewed about a week ago. It basically listed direct links to a dozen or so permission pages of social networking sites. Among the sites where some of the most popular sites on today’s Internet, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn or Dropbox.

The service offered little more than direct links though which users could bookmark in their web browsers to access the permission pages directly.

Notification Control, created by Ben Lang and Tim Kendall, has been inspired by My Permissions. The core difference is that Notification Control links to the notification pages of popular services on the Internet.

All you need to do is to click on one of the links to be taken directly to the notification page of the linked services. There you can then change if, when and how you are notified. You could for instance block all notifications to your email account if you do not want to receive notification emails anymore, or enable them again in case you’d like to receive emails again.

A total of 12 services are currently supported, among them Facebook, Twitter, eBay, FourSquare and Google+. Users benefit the most if they use more than one of the services, and chance is good that the average user does.

I’d still recommend to bookmark the notification control panel directly, or at least the general control panel of all sites so that you are able to access the pages directly and without intermediary page. Most users do not need to modify notification settings on a regular basis though.

What’s your take on My Permissions and Notification Control? Do they provide a useful service or is it not useful at all?

I’d say it is nice for users who want to quickly check on the notification or permission settings of said services, but that’s about it. (via Techdows)

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Manage Hosts Files From Within Firefox

The so called Hosts File can be used to redirect hostname requests to different IP addresses.

It is often used to block access to websites or servers, to redirect requests to a new or local server, or by malicious attackers who redirect websites to honeypots and fake websites. Web developers can use the hosts file to work on moved websites before the DNS propagates.

The concept is pretty simple: When you move your website to a new host, you need to tell the DNS system that your domain name is now accessible on a different IP address. This DNS propagation takes up to 48 hours. When you load the website before propagation you automatically load it on the old server and not the new one. This can be problematic for web developers who want to check if the website displays correctly and without errors on the new server. That’s where the host file comes in. You basically force your computer to use the new IP address instead of the old one to open the domain name in the web browser.

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The Firefox extension Change Hosts adds those controls, and a lot more to the web browser. Many web developers use the Firefox browser, as it offers access to great web development tools such as Firebug. With Change Hosts installed, they can change hosts files with two mouse clicks.

When you first install the extension you will notice that it adds information to the status bar of the browser. Here you see the name of the active hosts file and the current server IP.

A right-click opens a context menu that displays all available hosts files in a menu, options to flush the Dns Cache, and to open the extension preferences.

The general tab displays whether the hosts file is readable and writable on the system, options to run another local file after changing hosts file, and whether pages should be automatically reloaded when a new hosts file is loaded.

The Definitions tab offers options to add, edit and remove hosts file. Hosts files can be edited right away in a basic text editor in the browser, and changes become available immediately after they have been saved. It is furthermore possible to copy and paste information from one hosts file to another, or from the clipboard directly into a hosts file.

Change Hosts is a great extension for web developers that work with the Firefox web browser. The ability to maintain multiple hosts files, for instance for different projects, plus the ability to flush the DNS cache from within the browser are useful features. Firefox users can download and install the latest version of the extension from the official Mozilla Firefox Add-ons repository.

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