Pandora Radio has changed the way I've listened to music.  It's the most powerful music recommendation application I've ever used, and it's led to me spending a lot on new albums.  If you're a music lover looking to broaden your horizons, check it out at pandora.com.

In this video not only do I talk about Pandora Radio, but some complementary tools to improve your Pandora listening experience.  The first tool is PandoraBoy, a Google Code project that runs Pandora as an application (OSX only, but Pandora also has a platform-independent Adobe AIR application).  This is cool for a couple reasons - first of all, it lets you cut out the big advertisements that are on Pandora.com and in the Adobe AIR version of Pandora, and secondly it adds some functionality (Growl notifications, keyboard shortcuts) which only a desktop application can deliver.

The second tool is a plugin for Adium, which is (in my opinion) the best instant messenger client for OSX.  The script lets you use whatever is playing in PandoraBoy as your Adium status.  If you've used iTunes to show your Now Playing song in Adium you'll know what I mean.  Check out the video and leave a comment!  Thanks for watching!

PandoraBoy
http://code.google.com/p/pandoraboy/

"Now Playing in Pandora" Adium script
http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=4604

Pandora Radio

Now Playing:
Young Dubliners - Follow Me Up To Carlow
Fallout 3