ajb{log}: learn something new each day

msn.com is sporting a new look to promote its “I’m not a PC” ads. Videos on the background can actually be played which is really cool and original.

I love Last.fm but Favtape is really one cool alternative. Favtape can play your “loved” songs at Last.fm in sequence! A feature that is not yet offered at Last.fm free.

So what is Favtape anyway? Favtape is a music sharing and discovery service. You can mix tapes, browse and buy music in a very simple but slick interface. If you’ve been a long time Last.fm user with lots of “loved” songs, Favtape is the best service for you.

Favtape can also search for your bookmarked songs at Pandora (US only).

Here’s my DJ Tiesto mix tape.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Yahoo Canada (http://yahoo.ca) now sports the new (old) logo. But still no sign of the new look and feel.

Here are some options for minor improvements for the Cleaner FriendFeed Beta stylish style.

Here they are:

Extends the left sidebar’s width to fit your rooms:

#sidebar
{
width:160px !important;
}

Make changes to the font size of your rooms, friend grouping links to your preference:

#sidebar a:link, #sidebar a:visited
{
font-size: 12px !important;
}

Highlights the likes background to light pink

.likes
{
background-color: #FFEFE8 !important;
}

A screenshot of how a post item should look like after the update:

* Highlights likes with light yellow
* Highlights friends comments with light yellow
* Highlights your comments with powder blue
* Regular font color (gray) on comments from non-friends

jQuery.com pulled the Javascript Rockstar graphic responding quickly to user feedback.

The jQuery team left an Easter egg on the website as a token of appreciation. Just enter the famous Konami code to view it.

Hint, it’s really cool!

Personally, I say it looks good. Not great, but good. Some jQuery users however don’t like the redesign. Get the scoop on jQuery’s blog.

Yahoo! Argentina is now sporting a new (old) logo on it’s homepage.

Yahoo! has been using the purple logo ever since on some of their corporate websites and campus but never on any of it’s homepage.

Personally, I like it better than the red one. It’s consistent to their offline branding.

I’ve created a new userstyle.org + stylish version of my old Cleaner FriendFeed for the new FriendFeed Beta that was launched hours ago. Grab it here.

Here are the screenshots (before and after)

Before Cleaner FriendFeed

After (Cleaner FriendFeed Beta applied)

So what were the changes?

* Cleaner and cool look and feel (FriendFeed Beta is already clean, this makes it a lot cleaner)
* Different font style
* Highlights friends comments with baby yellow (instantly know that the user is already your friend)
* Highlights your comments with baby blue (it’s cool to see your own comments from river of comments. Looks good when you are a distance away your computer, makes your comment a marker in conversations)
* Dims comments from non-friends (normal color of FriendFeed comment)
* Separated each posts with a bottom border

This userstyle brings the FriendFeed conversation to another level by instantly letting you know…

1) Your own comment (Powder Blue)
2) Your friends comments (Light Yellow)
3) Your non-friends comments (Normal FriendFeed Comment Color)

As FriendFeed becomes popular, you’ll definitely need some kind of instant and attention grabbing color that catches your eyes and tell you where you left off in a conversation.

Hope you like it.

You can download/install it over here.

Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit and the FriendFeed team broke the two month silence today launching the newly redesigned FriendFeed. VentureBeat spotted and reported this four days ago.

New features includes:

Friend List
Friend lists enable you to organize your friends into groups, get updates from your family separately from your coworkers, or you can add an acquaintance to a list and remove them from your home feed.

Best of day and Best of week Summaries
A “best of” page for a friend lists shows you the most popular entries among people in the list for the day/week.

Enhanced Photo Posting
You can now upload photos with your posts. The photo uploader lets you select and upload multiple files at once with no additional downloads required.

New sidebar link, favorite friends, groups, rooms and a lot more.

Head to http://beta.friendfeed.com and see the cool new FriendFeed!

Related articles:

• Spotted: FriendFeed Beta - coming soon
• FriendFeed summaries coming soon

Dear PHPUGPHer, Is your name here? If it is here, then congratulations! You are one of the most active members of PHPUGPH. If your name is not here, then I urge you to be active.

Update: The above was truncated to 150 users only. Below is the 500 users.

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