Another Pointless Blog

There is a time when we sit for an hour or two and create a play-list of all our favorite songs to play them all the time your PC is turned on. Over the time, maybe a few days or months… You make new additions to your collection of songs and even delete the ones you don’t seem to like anymore. And its most probable that you’ll add some of the new songs to your playlist and it is possible that while adding  more songs to the playlist, you add something that is already there. Also, it is quite possible that you may not be able to remove the songs you deleted if the play list is a bit too long and you are a lazy-bum!

Winamp doesn’t notify you of duplicate entries or missing files in a playlist. You only spot it if playing a non-existent entry doesn’t work and if a song plays more than once when you are playing the playlist in shuffle OFF mode.
However, Winamp offers the option to remove duplicate entries and missing files from your playlist, which is lesser known but quite nifty.

From the playlist editor, select “Remove Missing Files from Playlist” and/or “Remove Duplicate Entries”
in the playlist menu. The keyboard shortcut to remove missing files is ALT+DELETE and to remove duplicate entries is SHIFT+DELETE. And you are done! Enjoy a clean no-repeat collection of your favorite songs

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Around half a month ago I got PMOG and it didn’t work for some strange reason. Then all of a sudden 2 days ago I decided to see if there was an update and give it a whirl. Unfortunately  there was no update but for some reason the toolbar started working. So far its been quite ‘fun’ and is a great idea. So what is PMOG you’re asking and what does it mean? Well it stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Basically the concept is you play an MMO whilst going about your daily activities on the net. You earn points, lay down mines, give crates, attach saint nicks and even make paths (or ‘missions’) for other players to do.

The hard part was learning what to do, there are no real great guides around on the net so this is a nice little guide of what I have learnt so far from reading the site and forums.

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Yes, it is true that pictures and videos speak more than text does. A few pictures or still better, a short video can conveniently explain something that otherwise needs writing many pages of text to be conveyed effectively. We can see a large number of bloggers who embed videos in their blog posts. This is also the prime reason that the number of vlogs are increasing steeply ever since this concept of blogging through videos was introduced.

A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog, is a blog whose medium is video.

This is purely my personal observation, and based on it, my personal opinion that not many bloggers are using videos on their blogs in the right way they should.

From a few recent blog reviews that I did at Inspirit, (like the blog reviews for Game Posts dot Net and for Poker Blog) I have seen that many bloggers tend to add videos to their blog posts without adding a textual description about them. I have stressed this point (particularly in the above 2 blog-reviews that I linked to) that its a healthy practice to add a small textual description about the contents of the video, in the blog post. This is just so useful for people who might be interested in your stuff but reside in areas that have broadband connections that are just too far from anything that can be called fast!

So, what I suggest you should do when adding a video to your blog post is:

• Introduce the subject of your video in a sentence or two.
• Embed the video.
• Add some details about what tools did you use in the video.
• Brief, what are you trying to convey in the video and why should the visitors watch it.

Also, adding a textual description gives you a chance to target specific keywords related to your blog post that might get you better ranking in Search Engines and thus increase your traffic and maybe subscribers also, if your content is worth it.

What is your view-point on this issue? Take a minute to drop a comment and share your opinions and ideas.

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