Internet Radio station, Yahoo! Options

[camsmith]

I've only jsut found out about http://music.yahoo.co.uk, an internet radio station where you can rate teh songs/artists/albums as you listen to them, which customises the music it feeds you.

A really cool idea, and seems to work for me.

In my opinion, better than itunes, as you don't need to own the music to listen to it (although you can't specify which song to listen to next).

[camsmith]

I've just noticed a down sideto this. Although the player is based inside you web browser of choice, it tends to eat any spare CPU that you have. On a laptop (which is what I'm using at work), this can lead to heat problems when it's on for a whole day.

This leads to the CPU throttling (slowing itself down) to keep cool, as there is no room for something like the Zalman heatsink in my home PC. If you're trying to do work on the laptop at the same time, this can be frustrating (assuming you have tight deadlines), as it takes some time to cool back down and get back on with work at full speed.