Tai Mingshen

How on Earth have I not noticed PandoraFM before now? This mash-up allows you to listen to music via the excellent Pandora music service and submits each song to your profile on Last.fm.

Last.fm is a service that saves a record of the artists and songs you listen to in your music profile (so called scrobbling), and then presents an array of lists based upon artists you might like, users with similar taste, personalised radio streams, music charts, etc.

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CrossEngine brings together Google, Yahoo!, Live, Ask, Wikipedia, Technorati and many more search engines and digital content providers in an intuitive interface. It doesn’t search across several engines simultaneously like some meta search utilities, but does provide quick results without having to retype your search terms every time.

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I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.1. Since this release doesn’t include the WordPress Database Backup plugin, I had to download it from Il Filosofo and install it myself. This didn’t go smoothly. In order get the backup to work, I had to do the following:

1. Manually create a backup directory; e.g. /wp-content/backup-directory-name
2. Change the permissions on this directory to 777
3. Edit the backup directory definition in the plugin file wp-db-backup.php from
   define('WP_BACKUP_DIR', 'wp-content/backup-' . $rand);
   to
   define('WP_BACKUP_DIR', 'wp-content/backup-directory-name');
   so that it points to the newly created directory.

I found the fix after combining several threads on Il Filosofo’s discussion forums.

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