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Firefox Trick: Rhapsody Player Sidebar
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Firefox is an awesome browser. In addition, Rhapsody is an awesome music service. So, using the two together makes perfect sense, right? I certainly think so, but the thing is, I don't really like how the Rhapsody playlist appears in its own little window - I would much rather have it open in the sidebar, so that it stays right with me in an easy to access spot as I browser Rhapsody and the rest of the web. Fortunately, not only is it possible to get the Rhapsody player to open in the Firefox sidebar, it's easy to do and doesn't require more than a minute to set up. (Read the full post for the instructions.)

All you need to do is set up a bookmark for the Rhapsody Player (not, mind you, for Rhapsody.com, but for the player itself):
1. Open your Bookmarks menu (or go to the Bookmarks toolbar), right click where you want your bookmark to appear, and select "New Bookmark" from the right-click menu.
2. Name the Bookmark something like "Rhapsody Player," and past "http://www.rhapsody.com/player" into the Location box.
3. Check the Load this bookmark in the sidebar box.
Done!

Using the bookmark is easy:
1. Go to Rhapsody.com and log in.
2. Open in Bookmark.
3. Start adding music.

Nothing more to it than that. Once you've logged in and opened your bookmarked player you're free to browse around Rhapsody or any other website all you want - the player will run nicely in the sidebar and keep you logged in and your music playing.

Labels: Music, Tech/Internet

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"White Tree" Blogger Classic Template
Thursday, December 06, 2007

I've been planning on creating a few Blogger templates for public release since sometime early thing year, but it took me until last night to actually get it together enough to finish one.

"White Tree" is a simple, clean, and flexible three-column liquid-layout template designed for use with Blogger (under the 'Classic' templates system). You can see it in action at Perpetual Templates, a blog I set up for the purpose of testing and displaying the template, and possibly future ones.

White Tree is heavily based on the template I'm currently using here on Perpetual Thursday (also created by me). Actually, as you can probably tell by looking at it, White Tree is almost a duplicate of Perpetual Thursday's theme - it's just white instead of black, has a tree instead of lightning, and doesn't display abbreviated posts on the main page.

However, this is enough to make it look very different from the template here, and it really did come out very well, if I do say so myself. I was tempted to use it here, actually, but I've kept this place pretty dark since it started, and really don't want to change it.

Anywho - you can download the code for White Tree as a text file at:
http://alternative-internet.com/webmasterstuff/sectionc/whitetreebloggerclassic.txt

The terms for using it can be found on deviantART:
http://hobbramble.deviantart.com/art/quot-White-Tree-quot-for-Blogger-71402052

I hope that somebody finds a use for it, as I'm very pleased with it and would hate to see it go to waste. I'm working on a version to use with the updated Blogger template system (as opposed to classic templates), and might try and get a Wordpress port together in the future - not sure yet.

Coming later this week: Why Harry Forbes Should Get Sacked. Stay tuned, and may all your Thursdays be Perpetual - esp. tomorrow, happy Saint Nicholas' Day!