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Grooveshark.com – Listen to Music Online for Free

Nathan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:03:59 +0000

I’ve been listening to music online for years. Pandora and Playlist have always been great sources for listening to music online. One of the things that separates Pandora from the rest is that you pick a song or an artist, and they find similar songs and combine them into a playlist for you to listen to. This is great for finding new music, although I have found it to be more of an annoyance than doing what it’s intended for – helping you find new songs and artists. The downside to Playlist in my opinion is the ease of using their website. Well a few months ago I stumbled across Grooveshark – An awesome website for listening to music. It’s recently been re-designed which makes it even easier to use. So if you’re looking to find a specific song, give Grooveshark a try.

The Mysteries Of Google Rankings

Nathan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:33:58 +0000

Everyone who know’s anything about SEO will agree that Google’s algorithm can be quite confusing. I have read horror stories about websites going from making thousands of dollars a day to nothing – just like that! While this probably makes sense on Google’s end, the website owner is dumbfounded as to why this has happened. They are trying to think of everything they have done with the website to make sure everything was on the up-and-up, but they can’t think of anything. Well my friends… this is where I am.

(rankings dropped, then came back for a week… then dropped again.

About two weeks ago I was checking the Google Analytics Stats on one of my niche websites, only to find out I had a whopping 0 hits for the day! At first I thought it was an error, but then after searching for my top search terms, I found all of my rankings were GONE! The only thing I ranked for was typing in the name of the website itself. This was very frustating, but to my surprise it only lasted one week! Late August I started getting my rankings back, and getting some traffic. I was very excited, until to my surprise I lost all of my rankings yesterday! Oh the drama!

Hopefully I’ll steady out in a week and this will never happen again. I wish Google would notify the website what it was doing wrong – if anything.

Let me know if you’ve experienced anything similar in the comments!

Hulu Desktop Released For Windows/Mac

Nathan — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:27:38 +0000

Tired of having to open up your browser every time you want to watch a good video? Well now you don’t have to! You can download the Hulu Desktop and watch all of your videos full screen with ease, and have it actual full screen!

So far everything looks great! From the Icon, to the video quality. It’s probably just me, but it actually appears to have better quality video. It’s very intuitive, and everything looks beautiful. I wouldn’t mind it having a little more content to browse per page, but it’s worth it. I don’t have to worry about accidentally closing the browser too! Not only that, but for some reason Ads aren’t playing when I’m watching in the application.

You can get Hulu Desktop Here.

Download Music From Playlist.com In Firefox Using Flashgot Plugin And Put It On Your iPod!

Nathan — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:46:19 +0000

Have you ever wanted to download music from Playlist.com and put it on your MP3 Player, into iTunes, or on your iPod? Well thanks to one of Firefox’s top plugins Flashgot, you can! I have made a short video on how to do this.

And sorry, but I don’t have a Microphone at the moment so you’ll have to just pause and read the instructions while watching the video. I have also gone ahead and posted the instructions right below the embedded video.

Be sure to add a coment below if this worked, or didn’t work for you! I would love to hear from you.

The Video Is Broken. I’ll try to get a new one up sometime today.

Instructions:

How to download music from playlist.com using firefox flashget.

[Pause Video in between steps]

1. Download firefox if you already haven’t. (search google to find download)

This Technique will not work in IE, Opera, or Chrome.

2. Download and install “Flashgot” Add-on.

3. Search Playlist for music.

notice how I have to wait until the little icon down in the bottom right has to finish blinking!

4. Download music by clicking on the little Icon.

Notice: It will download to your default download folder. This can be changed.

5. Rename the mp3 file. Most of the time they will come like this: “2931825728.mp3″

6. AFTER renaming, drag into iTunes. Then proceed to sync with your ipod.

7. Checkout http://nathat.com!

Notice: I do not condone downloading of music clips longer than 30 seconds from playlist.com, as this can be illegal.

Satalite TV for PC – Watch All the Shows you Want on your Computer!

Nathan — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:55:04 +0000

Have you ever wanted to watch TV on your computer? Well now you can! With Satellite TV for PC – Elite Edition 2009!

Instantly turn your computer into a super TV with over 3000 channels! You don’t even need a TV Tuner. Why pay hundreds a month for a couple hundred channels. It just doesn’t make sense. Get Satalite TV on your PC! 8cgqftf88e

Is It Just Me?

Nathan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:03:33 +0000

I have been a happy Comcast subscriber for over three years. I have been pleased with them for the most part, until last night around 5:00PM the internet download speeds slowed by about 95%. Weirdly enough, upload speeds stayed the same.
I did the normal protocol (reset modem, router, computer ect..) and still suffered the same problem. I then decided to wait a few hours and try again, as one of my neighbors could have been downloading a large file, or streaming some high res video. I checked later that night and still had the same results.
Today I was fed up. So I ran a Speedtest and STILL got a download of about 350kb/s and an upload of around 1500kb/s. I called 1-800-COMCAST and talked to a representative. After WASTING ABOUT 5 MINUTES getting my information, asking STUPID QUESTIONS (“has this ever happened before? did you get a new product?”) the nice lady said:

“I’m sorry, but we’ve been getting calls about this happening in the Salt Lake City, Utah area all day. We know about the problem and are sorting it out as we speak. We know the problem is on our end.”

You think they could have at least told me right after getting my address… guess not.

Since it’s running so slow, I decided to hook up my Sprint Diamond and use it’s internet instead. Comcast was just too slow to handle Hulu.
Please comment if you are experiencing the same problem.

Facebook Ads Manager – Not Suggested For Advertising

Nathan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:28:15 +0000

I recently found a few coupons for Facebook Advertising. After getting My Ad for Empire Board Games I figured I would start advertising and spending about $50 a day so I could use the coupons before their value expired.

After looking at the statistics, I was very surprised. I had nearly 400 thousand impressions with only around 200 clicks!!! CRAZY!

I decided that it is not a great place for Pay Per Click, but it could be very good for getting your name/logo out.

Jack Bauer Is Back In Season 7 of 24!

Nathan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:43:05 +0000

photo credit: John Griffiths

The 24 Season premiere started 8/7c last night on Fox. If you haven’t seen 24, I highly suggest this extremely intense TV show. You can watch the “Redemption” and episodes 1 and 2 at Hulu.

In order, you’ll want to watch:
Redemption (No longer available on Hulu)
8am – 9am
9am – 10am

The links will take you to Hulu’s video’s. Hulu is a free video network owned by NBC and Fox.
Let us know what you think about 24 in the comments! Personally I’ve seen every single episode – all 7 seasons!

Tribal Wars

Nathan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:02:49 +0000

I’ve been playing Tribal Wars for around two years. It is a real time strategy game. When I say “real time,” I mean it. It take about 1 hour to send troops to the nearest village.
In Tribal Wars you upgrade your village, create warriors, and attack and capture the enemy. Every village (except barbarian villages) is maintained by another human around the world. I play on World 31, which has over 100,000 users. So this is an extremely large and popular game.
In the beginning of the game you start by upgrading your resources and warehouse. It takes around 10 minutes to go from level 1, to level 2. After you’re resources are all around level 15 you’ll want to start upgrading other buildings.
After you’re done with that, you’ll want to try to get invited into a dominant tribe in your area. This will help with security, and give you plenty of allies to assist when in battle.
In the end game, you’ll have multiple villages and will want to try to conquer as many high level villages as possible. Just to give an estimate, upgrading a “Clay Pit” from level 29 to level 30 takes around 10 hours!
If you are on the internet often, I suggest giving it a try! It’s fun, and a great strategy game that doesn’t require too much quick thinking.

You can check out my profile on World 31 here.

Yet Another Nathat.com Re-Design

Nathan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:00:25 +0000

I recently decided to change theme’s once again. I received a message from a reader informing me of the “Comment” error. I decided that I would just switch Theme’s, rather then trying to fix the problem. I get my theme’s from Elegant Wordpress Themes, a great website I recommend! They charge $20 a year, and you can use as many as you like!

Let me know what you think about the change! Please report any bugs or suggestions. If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments!