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Update Scanner is a Firefox Extension that will alert you whenever a Website has been updated.  It installs an arrow icon in the lower right hand corner of your browser window.  When a site you’ve added to Update Scanner has changes, it will turn purple and you’ll see a small toaster notification.  You can add a site to be alerted about with a right mouse click or you can add sites manually.  You decide how often you want Update Scanner to check for updates – anywhere from every five minutes (not recommended) to once a day.

Now I know that most Websites have an RSS Feed, but that’s really not all Update Scanner can be used for.  If there’s an interesting comment thread you want to keep your eye on but don’t really want to subscribe to it in your Feed Reader, you could have Update Scanner notify you every hour with changes.  You could do the same for threads in a forum.  If you have a friend (or Mother) who doesn’t really understand the whole RSS thing, you could install Update Scanner for them and add the few sites they may frequent.  Then just show them how they’ll know when there’s new content “because the cute little arrow will turn purple, Mom!”.  Here’s my screencast tour of Update Scanner:

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Chilirec is a service that records music from various Internet radio stations and allows you to create playlists to listen to from the Chilirec player. When you first get started, you need to select what Internet stations you want Chilirec to record from – there are currently 351 available. Chilirec will then begin to add music to your account from these stations. Music is added quickly and you can begin listening by dragging and dropping songs onto the Chilirec player. You can also do a search for music by artist, song, or genre. You can create playlists and download songs as MP3 files.

It would be nice if the Internet radio stations could be broken down by genre because browsing through 351 stations is a bit tedious. Other than that, I can’t really complain. I’ve been using Chilirec for about 2 hours and it’s already recorded almost 8,000 songs that I can listen to whenever I want. Here’s my screencast tour of Chilirec:

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