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Visit Unhearit, click the New Song button, and Unhearit kicks out a catchy tune. We were dubious about its ability to crank out catchy song after catchy song but after repeatedly clicking the New Song button we realized that each new song was catchy enough to make us forget about the prior tune. The repertoire of the tool is impressive too, in the course of our testing we heard the Super Mario Bros theme song, got Rick Rolled, and heard some excellent music from a 40 year span.
On top of just spinning up new songs for you Unhearit includes quick sharing via popular social networks and the ability to download the new songs you discover via the service. Have a favorite tool for getting a pesky song out of your head? Let's hear about it in the comments.
Readers offer their best tips for calling from Gmail overseas, making easy standing desks, and mounting Dropbox as a virtual drive.
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Abhijeet writes a blog post on how to make calls from outside the U.S. in Gmail:
Like many others outside the United States, I too was wondering how to get my hands on the cool call phone feature which Gmail introduced recently for its US users. There were reports that if you set your Gmail language settings to English(US), it should work. And yes, it did for many. But not for me (and for many others).
So, while hunting for a workaround, I thought why not try one of the free VPN clients we mentioned in our hide IP and browse securely article, and see if getting a US based IP address is all that's needed. And guess what, it worked like a charm!
Here's what I did.
1. Signed out of Gmail.
2. Fired up my favorite VPN client and got myself a US IP address.
3. Signed back into Gmail, and found a nice "Call Phone" option in the chat column.
It worked for me so I am assuming it should work for many others out there. Try it out and let me know if it does.
Also, it should be noted that as soon as I disconnected from the VPN and came back to my original connection, the call phone option was gone. So this isn't a permanent thing and would require you to stay connected using the VPN.
Chelsea Otakan tells us how she made a cheap standing desk:
Use $5 bed risers from Target or Walmart for an easy DIY standing desk. They'll lift a desk with normal legs around 5 inches off the floor.
I'm 4' 11" using a Blu Dot Paperclip desk with 5' risers and it works great for me. Taller (read: normal height) people will probably need stackable or adjustable risers.
They sell adjustable bed risers that will add up to 8 inches, and stackable wooden risers that are 4' per unit, but more expensive.
X3geek shows us a neat Windows Explorer trick for Dropbox users:
There is subst.exe utility in windows which creates virtual drives of paths associated with them. So I use it to manage Dropbox folder. You need to make a cmd or bat file with the these 2 lines:
subst /d X:
subst X: "C:\Users\[user]\Documents\My Dropbox"and put the file in your startup folder ("Start"- type "shell:startup" in the search field) as the command file mounts the folder into a virtual drive. The first line deletes a substituted virtual drive. You'll see a drive (X: in this case) in My Computer which has Dropbox folders. Thanks to this thread.
Note: the command shown will work on Windows 7, for Windows XP the command has to be
"C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\My Documents\My Dropbox"
Note that you can do this with any folder in Windows, but it may be particularly helpful for some Dropbox users to visualize their Dropbox folder as a network drive.
Jared Pavan shares another use for old CD spindles:
Use an old CD spindle to distribute wire from a loose spool. There's room in there for at least 2 more spools. Combine this with the under-the-desk CD spindle, and you'd be set!
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