I love the Mp3 streaming site GrooveShark.com a lot. The UI is clean and when my playlist isn’t skipping tracks it’s a beautiful application.
What I don’t love is: the get ripped in two weeks, here are my dentures, how many eyes does this girl have, which picture is Obama, ads that are displayed on the right side.
Now I could do like they want (and probably need) and go VIP for a couple of bucks a month but it was much faster to just write a Firefox Bookmarklet to get rid of those things for me.
So if you want it too, drag this link: GrooveShark No Ads to you bookmark toolbar. You can click it once to visit Grooveshark, then hit it again to remove the ads and make your player go fullscreen. Hot stuff!
And here is the code:
javascript:(function(){if(window.location.hostname!="listen.grooveshark.com"){window.location="http://listen.grooveshark.com"}else{document.getElementById('adBar').style.display='none';document.getElementById('mainContentWrapper').style.margin='0px';}})();
iForemanGrill on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
I’m not here to tell you we need a good stock photography site. We have good pay for stock photography sites like iStockPhoto and DreamsTime and we also have good free stock photography sites like MorgueFile and Stock.XCHNG. So today I am simply going to throw out another idea that would really make me happy.
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Simply Amazing!
In the wake of the devastating Haiti earthquake, aid organizations have been hard at work on the ground and citizens around the world have pitched in to help in whatever way they can. On the Geo team, we've been looking for ways we can help relief efforts using our mapping tools. Last week, thanks to our partner GeoEye, we published updated satellite imagery of Haiti in Google Earth and Google Maps which illustrated the devastation and current conditions on the ground. This data was made available for public consumption and also to assist relief efforts including those by many UN organizations and the Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies.
via Official Google Blog: New imagery of Port-au-Prince.
Straight to Google Maps of Haiti this week.
I recently built a subtitling system for a site that I am working on: khristos.org
It uses FlowPlayer with the built in Captions Plugin. The interesting part is that I also built an admin section where clients can add the subtitles on their own. Click the image below to see what it looks like. You can also check out the video here.
What’s also interesting is a Mashable article that explains how you can add Captions to your YouTube videos.
With the rising popularity of this subject and videos on the web, I figured it would be a good chance to give back to the community that has taken me so far.
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