Website of the Week

Groovesharks Amazingness (wotw)

Thursday, April 1st, 2010


For my second entry into the website of the week (wotw), I wanted to rant on how much I love Grooveshark. If you don’t know what it is yet then you need help. Grooveshark is another online music system that allows you to listen to music. Like other music websites like Pandora, and Jango you can set up radio stations that will randomly play songs similar to the artist of your choice. But unlike those other sites Grooveshark allows you to create your own playlists, listen to any song at any time, replay songs, and there aren’t those annoying ads between every song. The only ad is on the right and that’s for the free version. You can pay $3 and the ads will go away, but its really not all that bad with the single add on the right. They also have some really cool features like the RSS feed of songs you are listening too and they have a really cool Grooveshark WordPress Plugin. For me who sits in front a computer more than 8 hours a day,  a really well made music site that allows you to listen to the music you want is vital to get those creative juices going. The most amazing thing of all is that the whole site is made in Flash and has really great features like the use of the back and forward button (you know how often Flash sites suck as this).  Check it out, I highly recommend it, and maybe down the road I will create a cool Flash RSS Grooveshark Reader or something.

Cya

Free Web Icons Download (wotw)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Website of the Week (wotw) is a new series I am doing on my blog, featuring one website per week or as often as I find a good one. I was basically doing this before when I would talk about other really useful websites that I use all the time or ones I come across while surfing on the net. Now this will by no means be anything close to thefwa.com in terms of awesomeness but it might be useful to anyway out there who is a surfing trying to find some good stuff.

This first entry in the Website of the week is Free Icons: More than 100,000 Icons in One Place. Its a really great site for all things icons, and if you still can’t find an icon that you need you will surely find something that could help you at least get started. Be careful though, you can spend hours looking at all the different  icons without even realizing the time flying by.

Cya