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(Portuguese) Ler Manga ou Comics no PC ou “O melhor leitor de manga para PC: MangaMeeya”
Aug 30th
Sorry, this entry is only available in Portuguese.
Cleaning Hotmail / Messenger / Windows Live Contacts
Mar 11th
Tutorial:Cleaning up Windows Live Messenger (or MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger) contacts.
May 31, 2010
Abstract
Overtime, MSN Messenger contact lists get cluttered.
Usually because of spammers, friends that change or lose their e-mail, or contacts you no longer talk to.
Yes, you can organize them into groups, and you can block them. But the MSN protocol and all the evolutions it has suffered have left some serious room for messiness.
This tutorial tries to explain the basics for cleaning your MSN contacts.
Preparation:
You should login to your Live Messenger account and change your password (for safety reasons, but you can skip this step)
Login to http://home.live.com and click options. Then account options or change password. Change your password into something temporary for this tutorial.
The Steps:
1 List Rebuilder Tool:
Go to http://www.msngeeks.com/msn and use their List Rebuilder Tool
screenshot of list rebuilder tool
From the site: «This tool will delete all unnecessary contacts in your allow and block lists. Unnecessary being contacts you’ve deleted from your forward list, and who have also deleted you from their forward list.»
2 Miranda IM Contact Tool:
2.1 Download and install Miranda Instant Messenger:
Miranda is a MultiProtocol IM that comes with a useful tool.
Online Radio – usage and alternatives to last.fm – A guide for Europe
Jul 31st
The story goes as this:
last.fm was a very cool website. It was free, it was hip, it kept getting better.
Add a few years and the free part is dropped out, as it often happens.
What does this wonderful site have that makes it so wonderful and worth me writing about it?
All it did, or its core fuction is to gather information about its users listening habits. What do you listen to and when do you listen to it. From that it does the following:
- Customized radios: you can pick a genre, friend, yourself or an artist, and it will play either songs that are related to what you picked or simply popular concerning what you picked. This means that with the click of a button you can listen to your friends music collection. Or even, you could listen to a radio composed of your favorites songs. Or even just listen to radio that plays music you don’t know, based on your tastes in regard to other similar users.
- Recommendations: As mentioned before, last.fm can pickup what you like. It then finds similar users and recommends to you the stuff that they like, and that you don’t know about. It’s likely that this way you will find new music that you enjoy. Also, it will recommend concerts of band, based on your taste. A very popular feature, specially for Erasmus students and the like :O
And its basically this that makes last.fm so cool: costumized radios and recommendations.
Organize your mp3 collection – tutorial – in works
Jul 23rd
Fullmooninu Tutorials – Music (but mostly MP3) Organizing
Well, i was messing around after purchasing MusicIP and figured i should alter this massive wall of text to something less scary.
So i was thinkingi should make two versions.
So… here’s the thing, im gona actually produce a light tutorial on music organizing, all centered on MusicIP. MusicIP is like, ossum, and puts everything else the web has to offer out on a corner.
I’ll try to explain why. As in the previous version of this tutorial it had little exposure.
Alpha Quick and Dirty Version
Okay Guys, I was telling some of you folks i would write some tutorials for this and that.
So here’s what, im going to do one right now… watch it grow while i use this forum as an excuse for the hiatus
This tutorial is for anyone who has a large (messy) music collection and wants to learn the basics to keeping such a collection organized, and use all that organizing to your personal benefit.
It’s mainly directed to the organizing of MP3 files, mostly because thats what the gross of my collection is, and because MP3 files, still present a very good quality/size ratio – specially when you are speaking about a LameMP3 encode at 192kbps 
(which is what i consider the current “sweet spot” for audio files, by the way)