I get asked this question a lot, and the answer is NO, for the majority of people. Of course, if you write music, have a flash video, etc, it’s o.k., as long as the viewer can 1. Turn it off or skip it, and 2. It doesn’t play that long. Unless you are going to put your whole album in a loop and give people pause, fast forward, and rewind capabilities, I say, leave it off.

Here are a few reasons why.

1. Your audience might be listening to music already
2. It doesn’t really add much to the experience. Do you feel like your missing out on something at ebay because they don’t have music playing?
3. A lot of people could be at work, and a shot of AC/DC could get them in trouble, discouraging them from visiting your site again
4. It’s a little cheesy.

It’s kind of like hold music when you call an automated phone system; it just isn’t great. Take a look at any of the top 100 websites, do they have music playing on their homepage? Most don’t, if any actually do. It’s not a best practice of top websites, and even though it works for Myspace pages, it doesn’t work for most professional business websites.

An annoying “feature” in Windows XP is the automatic balloon notification of every little thing in the bottom right notification area. Microsoft to the rescue of …. themselves!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307729

1. Click Start
2. Hover over All Programs
3. Right click over any Application or Folder
4. Select “Sort by Name”
5. Delete any programs you don’t want off the list by right clicking and selecting delete
6. Done!

I recently had a hard drive crash, so I upgraded my Macbook to Leopard and reinstalled Boot Camp and Windows XP. Here are a couple tweaks I came accross to get everything working right again.

If you are using a Apple keyboard, XP installs the drivers for it no problem, but by default numlock is turned off and there is no numlock button on the keyboard. Just hit the clear button instead!

Apple wants you to use your leopard CD to install your drivers, but if you don’t have it available, use utorrent and download a copy of Bootcamp 1.4, which has everything ready to go for you.