Getting around Pandora’s 40-hour monthly limit
In the past 6 months or so Pandora has implemented listening restrictions on their free service. It's really quite simple to get around this limitation, you just need more than one Pandora account. You might be thinking, well what about my radio stations?? Pandora allows you to share your stations with your friends, just share your stations with yourself. If you don't already have more than one email address, go out to gmail and register a second address, or even a 3rd or 4th. GMail let's you forward all email to a single account, so as an example, I would just set up webguypandora1@gmail.com, webguypandora2@gmail.com, etc. and forward them each back to webguy@greatwebguy.com. Whenever you hit that 40 hour limit, just simply logout and log back in with a different account. You're other option would be to just pay the $36/year subscription 
Browser Hack: Speeding up Firefox and IE
Digging around today, I ran into this hack to allow Firefox to open more connections and to wait less time before rendering a page. It's been a common hack for IE over the years, but I wasn't aware there was something similar available for Firefox, it's a noticeable difference if your on broadband.
In firefox, the following settings will optimize your browser to utilize more simultaneous connections when pulling down a website and it will remove the default delay that firefox waits to paint the page:
- Open your browser and in the address bar type about:config and hit enter
- In the filter box type network.http.pipelining
- The results will filter, double click network.http.pipelining and change the value to true
- Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and change the value to 10
- Right click in the middle of the page and choose New -> String and name the String nglayout.initialpaint.delay
- Double click nglayout.initialpaint.delay and give it a value of 0
If you're lazy like me, just go and install the FasterFox add on, which basically does all this and more for you.
And here's the registry hack for IE:
- Click Start run and type regedit and click OK
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
- Right click the Internet Settings folder and click New -> DWORD
- Give the Key a name of MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server with a Decimal value of 10
- Create another DWORD with a key of MaxConnectionsPerServer and a Decimal value of 10
This hack was found on Metacafe in video format, which I had to watch like 5 times while switching back and forth between tabs, which made me think, hmm maybe I should write this down somewhere.