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I have just discovered a completely awesome new site for music: TheRadio.com. You can listen to music by channel, or search for any song you can possibly imagine. Everything I have thought of has come up and played all the way to its end. Completely incredible! This is a must-see.

I loaded Gmail today to find that Google has now added colors and themes to the Gmail settings. The result is a drastic change in appearance for the site. I’m very happy with the new options. I chose the “new blue” theme and it looks fantastic.

Everybody knows about YouTube, and I think most people have visited Hulu or Vimeo. I recently discovered three amazing websites to find an amazing amount of streaming videos. On my searches of ovguide.com, I found most anything I thought of…TV shows, movies, you name it. That site is my personal favorite of the three in my list below, and one you must check out.

1. OVGuide.com
2. Ninjavideo.net
3. Truveo.com

Everyone American by law is entitled to a free annual credit report. I’ve often wondered how one goes about that. I don’t trust any website with the words “credit report” in the address, since the info is so sensitive. Today I was reading my latest PC World magazine and they address this. Here’s the scoop.

The official website is: www.annualcreditreport.com

It is indeed free with no strings attached. Don’t fall for commercials for “free credit report dot com”, which is only free after you sign up for a monthly credit monitoring service that is ridiculously priced. I wasn’t about to enter my information on just any website, and I’m thankful the magazine has cleared up. And now I’m telling you.

One of my favorite websites for technology news is Ars Technica. I regularly read their RSS news feeds. I particularly like the Mac-centric news in the Apple section of their website.

If you grew up in the days of when we all made mix tapes and were wowed by high-speed dubbing, you’ll probably enjoy this huge collection of recordable cassette tapes online.

Today, I signed up for a Twitter account. If you don’t already know, Twitter is a website web service where you tell the world what you are doing at any given time using 140 characters or less. I’ve heard a lot about it since it started a few years ago, but I never thought I’d be interested in using such a service. Fast forward to today, and I’m ready to give it a try. I’ve not only signed up, I’ve made a new static page on this site to display my latest Twitter updates. I don’t know if the novelty will wear off in time, but I’m enjoying it now.

After years of wondering and waiting, the folks at Del.icio.us have finally unleashed the new version of their bookmarking website. It has a brand new look and feel. It’s about time! I’m very pleased with it, myself. The site seems much better organized in this new format. The same underlying features appear to apply.

It also appears that traffic directed to their traditional del.icio.us address is now redirected to delicious.com. I don’t know how long it has been that way. I just noticed it, myself.

I find it amusing that today’s multi-protocol chat programs still include access to ICQ. Who in the world still uses that? In my mind, ICQ was dead even before the old Netscape Navigator saw its demise. I’m sure that software makers want to add access to as many services as possible, but who actually uses ICQ in that mix? I’d be curious to see those numbers. If you search the web for any mention of ICQ these days, you’ll find that the majority of comments are about how it is a thing of the past. I agree. Let’s bury it.

I really enjoy playing MiniClip Games. They have a huge collection of free Flash-based games to play. Some of these games are amazingly complex. I’m truly stunned at the quality and depth of some of these Flash games. In fact, the MotherLoad game that I recently mentioned is from the MiniClip site. Today, I’ve come to visit MiniClip a lot more often than Pogo. MiniClip has more games, and best of all, they’re free. So go play! You’re sure to get hooked.

The lack of a decent export option from the Address Book in the Mac OS is troubling. I’ve tried various free converters in the past, with mixed success. Finally, I’ve found a very easy web page that does the work for you. In Address Book, export all of your contacts as vCards. Then send them through the online converter for the output of your choice. It works beautifully.

I’ve used sites like Facebook and MySpace for a couple of years now. I used to log on when I got a notification email from one of the sites, which was only occasionally. I don’t do very much on MySpace anymore. I mostly just maintain my profile as a way for old friends to find me. My habits on Facebook have typically been pretty much the same since I signed up long ago.

Fast-forward to today, and I’m hooked on Facebook! I prefer it to MySpace by about 10-to-1. I’ve become addicted all all of the apps you can add to Facebook. I’ve come to enjoy apps like: Word Challenge, Pieces of Flair, The Hatchery, Super Wall, Battle Masters, SimmBook, and so on. I find myself signing in several times a day to check up on things and to boost my standings.

The recent addition of integrated instant messaging in Facebook has only sweetened the deal. It works very well. I like being able to see at a single glance if I have any friends online, regardless of what page I’m viewing on the site.

While MySpace has grown stale to me, Facebook is evolving. I’ve read a few articles predicting a type of “Facebook fatigue” would eventually set in for most users. So far, for me, this has not been the case.