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Most of you would say that the majority of the images in your collection look great. If I were to ask how many images in your collection sounded great what would you say? You would probably think I was crazy (I am heh).

RGB MusicLab by Kenji Kojima is a free application for Win XP, 2000, and Vista that converts the RGB value of an image to chromatic sounds. Here’s a snippet from the official description:

One pixel makes a harmony of three notes of RGB value, and the length of the note is determined by brightness of the pixel. RGB value 120 or 121 is the center C, and RGB value 122 or 123 is added a half step of the scale that is C#.

You can select which instrument you want the software to use but that’s about it. The software will automatically create music from your image. Sometimes you’ll get good results while some of your images will generate unpleasant sounds.

Give RGB MusicLab a spin and see if you’ve got any image that can top the charts.

The software requires Apple Quicktime.

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Coming on the heels of Firefox 3’s record-setting download day, is an alert from Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), which states that the newest version of the popular open source browser contains a critical vulnerability that affects Firefox 3 and Firefox 2.

Here’s a section of the ZDI report:

We verified the vulnerability in our lab, acquired it from the researcher, then promptly reported the vulnerability to the Mozilla security team shortly after. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Not unlike most browser based vulnerabilities that we see these days, user interaction is required such as clicking on a link in email or visiting a malicious web page.

Understandably, no specifics are mentioned by ZDI while Mozilla works on a patch. Just practice safe surfing and you’ll be fine heh.

On a lighter note, have you grabbed a certificate of the Firefox 3 download day yet? Here’s mine:

You can get your certificate here.

[High five to Ryan Naraine]

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Most site owners are always looking to increase brand recognition. If you’re one of them, this should be interesting for you.

AddOurSearch is a free service that will let your visitors search your site wherever they are, from within their browser. Simply put, your site visitors will be able to add your site to their browser’s list of installed search engines. The service supports Flock, Firefox 2 and above, and Internet Explorer 7 and above.

You don’t have to register. Just fill out a form and you’ll be provided with the code you need to add to your site. Once you’ve added the code, you’ll see the AddOurSearch widget. You can customize the look of your widget if you can’t find one you like from the available design. You can even use a customized text link if you don’t want to use a widget.

When visitors click on your widget, they’ll be presented with the installation window.

Here’s how it looks like once installed:

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When you’re in a hurry to waste time and don’t feel like browsing through different arcade sites, what should you do? How about installing your time wasters right into Firefox?

FireNes is an add-on for Firefox that will let you play over 2,500 NES games from within the browser. Now that’s a lot of time wasters. Once installed, you can access your new time wasters by going to Tools -> FireNes. You’ll see the list of games on your sidebar. Just double click on the title of your choice and the game will load in a small window.

Here’s how it looked when I was testing it:

Some games were a bit sluggish but that might be different depending on your computer. Controls are mapped to Z, X, and the arrow keys. There’s no search option so you’ll have to scroll down to find the game you want. FireNes works with Firefox 3.

If you’re having trouble finding the download link on the site, here it is.

For those of you who were wondering, I’m still using Win XP heh.

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There are a number of ways to embed audio on your site. You can use the more common scripts that will play a song as soon as a visitor hits your site (usually annoys people), or you can use services that let you have your own web radio station.

If you’ve been looking for a service that will let you stream your music like an Internet radio station without costing an arm and a leg, you’re in luck.

iRadeo is an online radio platform that will let you stream your mp3 and wav files for free right from your site. You can have your own free Internet radio station embedded within your site.

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Here’s something for those of you looking for new Yahoo smileys or free animated emoticons to add to your instant messenger.

Bandoo will add smileys and animated emoticons to your Yahoo or MSN messenger. The software adds a bar above the text area in your instant messenger and you can choose between different animated emoticons in different categories.

Just to make it clear, yes, these are all free. There’s a slight downside though. Since the smileys are located on Bandoo’s server, there’s a little delay when opening menus and choosing the emoticon you want. Still, if you’ve been looking for free animated emoticons, Bandoo doesn’t disappoint.

Works with MSN and Yahoo Messenger.

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If you’re like me, you have friends in different areas around the globe. You probably even know a few timezones. Whether you’re a blogger keeping track of different timezones, or just want to easily be able to tell what time it is in other countries, this Firefox add-on is for you.

FoxClocks is an extension for Firefox that will add small clocks in your browser’s status bar. The add-on will let you browse all the timezones by country, region, or city.

If your status bar is already crowded, you can switch to icon mode and just move your mouse over the FoxClocks icon to view all your clocks. Customization options include creating your custom time format and being able to set a different color to each clock.

The download page states that the extension works with Firefox 1.5 - 3 but I haven’t tested it in Firefox RC1 yet.

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Ask any site owner and they’ll tell you they’re always looking for ways to make their content more appealing. If you have a site of your own, it’s a safe bet to say you would love to turn your content into a multimedia experience for your visitors.

Apture will let you turn any text in your site into a multimedia experience. How? Apture lets site owners incorporate relevant media to their content. Put simply, you can select any text and have it show any text, video, image, or play audio, when a user’s mouse hovers over that text.

This means you can incorporate relevant media from Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, news stories, etc., to any part of your content.

Here’s a screenshot of their sample page:

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