Despite AOL's influence, winamp is still my No1

I work 8 hours every day and I constantly listen to music, so that makes more than 40 hours of playback during a week. I've used almost all of the popular players out there and Winamp is still my favorite one. To all the critics I have to say "Global Hot Keys" ( control Winamp while using any other program ) and " Smart Views" for organizing everything in manageable portions. The only thing missing from winamp is the "Genre" tab on the Library that iTunes has since searching by Artist or Album can be tough if you need a quick change of rhythm. Guess nobody's perfect, go Winamp!
P.S. get Justin back dammit..

Panasonic cordless phone needs unpluging for caller ID to work..

It's been a week since I had a new phone installation at the new place I rent with my fiance. I asked the local phone company to enable caller ID on my standard PSTN phone line. A week after the line's initiation no caller ID displayed on the phone and I was going nuts believing that it was the phone companys fault since they must have forgotten to enabled the feature. Well it turns out that all I had to do was unplug the phone from the electric mains and replug it for the feature to work. Just thought of mentioning it since I was about to search the web if no logical solution came to mind.

Dusting your PC can reduce noise dramatically!

I recently moved to a new house and the room I decided to put my PC is quite big and quite empty thus any sound coming out of my box multiplies by many. So I decided to follow an article I read a few days ago on Lifehacker on how cleaning the inside of your PC can have some great results on noise reduction.
I grabbed a can of air duster from my local hardware computer store, a clean dry cloth and I got down to business. I also found a couple of cables that went along with my Zalmann fans that reduce the speed of the chassis fans to make them less noisy. A few hours and a whole lotta dust later the results were overwhelming. I can safely say that I have achieved a 40% noise reduction and I can once again hear the keyboard click and work nights without waking the neighbors.. Do yourself a favor, if by any chance you have an old PC sitting on the floor, find some spare time, open it up and dust it, you'll be amazed by the results.

Windows launcher Colibri is amazing !!

Being a shortcut freak I found through Lifehacker this amazing new Windows launcher called Colibri. Basically it's a keyboard interface that launches programs on pc the way quicksilver does on Macs. The whole idea is quite simple, you hit clrl+space an interface comes up and you start typing the name of the app you want to use, a search list is formed and you get to choose the one you want from a list underneath your search box. Simple yet quite effective. 5 Stars from me.