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Multiple YouTube Tabs

Multiple YouTube tabs in your browser is the new Media Player. In the past the big-deal phenomenon was having WinAmp or windows Media Player all set up for all your songs and media information. But now more and more people are using YouTube for all of their music and media needs. You can find a huge variety of songs on YouTube and then just stream them in a tab in your FireFox or Internet Explorer browser. The content is so streamlined and easily accessible that I have very little need to actually Download anything anymore. I can just stream music and information on YouTube. As for TV, I can use Hulu.com or TheWB.com for that. I barely find myself ever actually sitting in front of the television anymore. And since most record stores are basically extinct I stream most of my music. In the cases that I do want to purchase a hardcopy CD then I do so from Amazon.com or directly from an Artist’s official music page.

The interesting thing is this new paradigm in streaming multiple tabs of YouTube information at a time has only been made possible by advancements in several forms of technology. First of all, you need to have a computer that has enough processing power and RAM in order to handle the raw computing challenge of the open tabs. And let’s not forget that even though tabs have been around in browsers for several years, not everyone knew about them or made use of them. Do you remember running multiple windows of Internet Explorer at the same time in order to multitask? It was annoying and it was good that the minimize/maximize animation was always cool, or else we would have gotten bored fast. Anther major factor was the advent and wide spread proliferation of DSL, cable and T1 connection speeds to the internet. Without those fast connections, we wouldn’t be able to stream so many tabs of information at the same time. It is a real blessing.

Between multiple tabs, my YouTube favorites, and the auto-fill feature on most search boxes, there is no real reason to not have lightening fast access to whatever you want on the web. I have also noticed that in response to how so many people are posting music on YouTube, many official and intelligent record labels have been promoting their own YouTube channels and have been sharing Official Music videos and song releases. This is definitely a smart idea on the part of the savvy record labels. The main reason is that if people REALLY want to listen to your music, they are going to figure a way to get it. So instead of forcing people to have to meander around the system in order to satiate their audio desires, the Record Label can make their music widely available on YouTube. This way you can not only make it so people can listen to your music who already want to hear it. But it also provides a quick and trusted way for your artists to rapidly achieve Viral MEME status by letting people post links on their Facebook, blogs and other social media applications and sources. A known fact is that people love linking to YouTube on their Facebook. And if you have an artist that you love, there is sometimes a chance that literally millions of other people may be interested in sharing that link as well.

As computer users of this decade become more and more comfortable will have the entire internet at their fingertips in nanoseconds, it makes sense that the internet browser takes a more direct role in that experience. What I’ve noticed is that browsers that attempt to make small simple changes over time are more successful than browsers that try to rewrite the book and/or allow for spam and unwanted toolbars to infiltrate their browsing. I use Mozilla Firefox and that seems to provide the most streamlined and pleasurable online experience. I don’t want a stupid BingBar or amazon bar or any of that spam. I just want the browser and my toolbar favorites. Being able to customize the toolbar favorites by simply right clicking them and renaming them not only makes browsing easier on the eyes. But it also saves me a fraction of a second per browsing session. And since I use the computer for over 2 hours a day that means I am literally saving days per year just because I made my internet browsing experience more efficient. Having multiple tabs of YouTube not only compounds that efficiency, but it also allows me to quickly learn about new pieces of music or media that I might have not necessarily had the time to search for.

-Tyler

Shout out to all the visitors from the Los Angeles Area

Big Shout Out to the people of Los Angeles! It’s Sunday and this is a SUNDAY SHOUT OUT! Every week overidon.com is going to celebrate a major urban area that sends large groups of visitors our way.

Git Ready….

Yo Sunday Shout-Out what’ll it be?

Got fans in LA over one-hundred-fifty!

Hotties on the beach -baskin’ in the sun.

Sippin’ Pina Coladas in Venice – show us how it’s done.

Spider Man got arrested for being a loiter.

He should have asked Bat Man for some pointers.

For the 18th largest economy in the world.

LA has got talent in it’s vice-grip-hold.

Whoa, I know it’s bold, to be told, it ain’t old tell me  about the Hollywood Bowl.

There’s enough vice cops to arrest your soul.

I’ve never heard of a city that’s more Rock ‘n’ Roll.

If Overidon had more fans like this.

We’d have to open up shop and blog on Christ-mas.

They got more theaters and clubs, -than San Francisco’s got pubs.

There’s Bro. J. Simpson and Electric Bills.

This is the town if you need cheap thrills.

Looking for love? Searching for affection or help?

Go ahead and scan Los Angeles on Yelp.

It don’t matter if you have your Movie-Set-Laser filled with Radium.

You can always catch Pantera at the Palladium.

If you want an example of a cool place to drink.

Check out Tokyo Delves and click on THIS LINK!

-Tyler

Happy Sunday!

Regenerate Your Tea

OK. Everybody knows about how you can re-use a teabag. But I don’t really like doing that. Tea Regeneration is a simple technique that WILL AMAZE YOU! This is how it works. You know how when you go to Starbucks and order let’s say, a Venti China Green Tips tea and it comes with 2 tea bags? Well what you can do is let the tea steep for about a minute or so. Steeping your tea means letting the tea bag sit submerged under the warm or hot water without being disturbed. This lets the flavor enter the water. Then when the tea gets to the desired flavor potency, I say, “Throw the tea bags out.” Don’t save them. Then when you drink about two-thirds of your tea and you have your paper cup. Take a look at the water. You should notice that the tea is actually a little bit darker than you first noticed it was originally. Well that’s actually the key. When you drink your tea, over time a lot of the particles fall down to the bottom. So the final gulps or sips of tea can become very strong and sometimes bitter. So in order to Regenerate Your Tea I suggest that you add clean safe water to your cup of tea after you drink most of it. If you add hot water to your tea it will be hot tea. If you add cool water it will be more like a refreshing chilled tea. This is a great technique to make your tea drinking experience last longer. And I’ve noticed that sometimes a cup of tea that I’ve been slowly sipping all day kind of gets, “lucky.” It is lucky in the sense that the tea has been charged by the energy from your hand and your body.

I feel that human beings have an aura and whenever we interact with objects or entities in our world our aura connects with those elements of reality. So when you hold your tea for hours and carry it with you on your adventures and have it chilling with you in your car, it absorbs some of your essence. Many spiritual people including some Buddhists bless their food and beverages before ingesting them. I think that is a smart idea. Why not send some good energy into whatever you are about to eat or drink? But the thing about tea is that it is a process more than just a beverage. Tea doesn’t have a tremendous amount of flavor or caffeine like coffee. It is a more subtle drink. So by adding water to it and savoring the energy in it, it can be tremendously refreshing. Be careful not to drink dirty tea, and only use clean healthy water also when doing this. I’d hate for anyone to get sick. Also double check the lid of your cup to make sure it isn’t nasty.

I’d recommend that you Regenerate Your Tea only by using Green tea. This technique doesn’t really work very well with herbal teas or black tea. It just doesn’t steep the same way or taste as good. If you are drinking black tea or herbal teas then you just might as well drink the whole thing.

I recently switched from drinking Lattes to drinking Green tea. The reasoning behind it is because I got sick recently and I think the dairy overload was a big part of it. Also the amount of caffeine I was ingesting was getting too much. 1 or 2 lattes per day is pretty nuts. So now I’m doing the green tea thing again and I’m feeling lighter on my feet and a little healthier.

-Tyler

August was a Record-Breaking Month

August 2010 was a record breaking month in terms of unique visitors and number of visits for overidon.com. According to AWstats we received 4,627 unique visitors so far in August. As well as 7,396 overall visitors for the month to date. The last time we got close to this many viewers was June 2010 when we received 4,470 unique visitors and 6,492 overall visitors. This is important because now overidon.com is finally approaching its original goal: To disseminate information. According to Alexa.com this website as of today is ranked 2,679,773 globally. I know that doesn’t sound like much but the interesting thing is that the website has gone up in the rank by nearly one-million this past month. Which is kind of a big jump. But that means that there are still over two-million other websites that get more traffic than overidon.com.

As a bonus, here’s how you officially pronounce overidon:  oh-v-air-eh-dawn

Some people pronounce it like: over-eye-dawn. And that’s cool, but that’s not the official pronunciation.

-Tyler