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Smashing breakthrough this morning!

I'm a very happy bunny this morning. Not that you'd know it to look at me tho, hunched over my laptop with headphones on and a glazed slightly moody look on my face...! Anyway, I'll get to the point, and why I'm a happy bunny. I finally managed to find a way to play BBC archived radio on my laptop. You see, the special thing about my laptop is that I don't have admin rights and so can't install programs like normal people. That means any program I use has to be a portable program that doesn't actually need to be installed. (ok, some programs install, but not all). The program in question for the BBC archived radio streams is of course Realplayer. This has to be installed, and not only that, your browser needs to recognise the plugin so that when you press play on the online BBC radio, it knows what to do! 1. So let's cut to the chase. I found this fabulous portable Realplayer HERE . It's a fully fledged version of Realplayer 11 as a single executable...

BlogThis Firefox Extension for Blogger

BlogThis, the original Firefox Extension for Blogger, doesn't work with Firefox v2.0 On Phil Ringnalda's blog there's an article about the BlogThis Firefox Extension. There's also a comment that explains how to update the BlogThis extension so that it works with Firefox v2.0 I've done the update as per the explanation, and installed the BlogThis extension successfully in Firefox v2.0.0.1 Here's the modified extension... blogthis.xpi