If you've checked out our Blogroll, you'll notice some our favorite sites like Skin Consortium, deviantART, & 1001 Skins.

We've also added links to Winamp groups on a few of the major social networking sites like Last.fm and Facebook. If you're a member of either of those sites, you gotta join. Not only will you be able to network with other Winamp users, but you may even find some good Winamp discussions & tips.

And just last week, we launched the Official Winamp MySpace page - http://www.myspace.com/official_winamp_page. And in the next few weeks, we plan on launching a new Winamp group on Bebo.

I have to admit. I was pretty stoned when I made the Getting Started video tutorial. No... not that kind of stoned... Kidney Stoned!!! Yes that's right, seconds before I was rushed to the hospital, I sacrificed life and limb (I mean kidney) for your entertainment.

It's true... I swear! Just ask Ashok. He had a kidney stone attack the same day I did. What are the chances of that? I would have said that it must be something in the water, but since I'm in DC and he's in Bangalore, I'd be lyin'.

Apparently, just like the Crimson Twins (Tomax & Xamot) of G.I. Joe fame, we too suffer from the The Corsican Syndrome. Anything he thinks , I think. Anything he wants, I want. Anything he feels... like a friggin' kidney stone... I feel. Well... you get the picture.

People nowadays live 99 lives and what is a life without music!

I have been following this new website, Secondlife which lets me live a different life on the internet. It lets me become a pilot, DJ, surfer - anything I want to be. Tinkering with it, I found that we can stream music into it. It lets you link up a server where from you can stream audio into the secondlife environment. Winamp provides a great platform of streaming through SHOUTcast and I thought 'Why not use SHOUTcast and stream some music and make my Secondlife more interesting? I even found a cool video uploaded by one of our esteemed users.

950 million people accessed the Internet last month, according to comScore, 21% more than at this time last year. Europe, Asia and Latin America all added more users in the past year than North America did. Forget mobile phone usage, this is just Internet access from a PC. The Internet has merged with broader globalization trends.

The same is true for Winamp. Did you know that last month, 76M people around the world used Winamp? That's 24% more of you than at this time last year. That's 1 in 12 Internet users. That's a lot of llama. Winamp's profile too, has merged with the same globalization trends, North American usage did not contribute much to our growth last year. This has made us take a slightly different approach to our business, and as such, we will continue to provide support for additional languages. Look for more in the next couple of months. Let us know if you are interested in helping with translation for languages we don't officially support yet.

Users all over the world use Winamp to perform lookups against their media files for artist, album and other information. What Winamp users are looking up, and where, is fascinating. Last month. the most popularly looked-up artist in Germany was Die Ärzte, in India it was A.R. Rahman, in S. Korea it was 브라운 아이즈 and in China it was 群星 in the UK it was the Ministry of Sound, and in Italy is was Vasco Rossi.

Now, I am a North American user. I Winamp near Washington DC. I Winamp mostly while I am at work. The artist I looked-up most last month was the Shins. Where do you Winamp?

-Sam

Thought this was pretty cool and wanted to share. It's no big secret and easy to find, but Winamp has a ton of helpful keyboard shortcuts. I've copy and pasted the list below, but in case you need to find the list again...

Open your Winamp player, go to your toolbar and click on Help > About Winamp. A dialog box opens, and you'll see four tabs: Winamp, Credits, Keyboard shortcuts, and Version history. Click on the keyboard shortcuts tab


******* Keyboard Shortcuts (these can be used in most Winamp windows) *******

Key Action
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F1 Open Help
Ctrl+F1 About Box
Ctrl+A Toggle Always on Top (N/A in playlist editor and media library)
Ctrl+Alt+A Toggle always on top (playlist editor)
Ctrl+W Toggle Windowshade mode (main window, unless in playlist editor)
Ctrl+D Toggle Doublesize Mode
Ctrl+E Toggle Easymove (only applicable in classic skins)
Ctrl+T Toggle Time Display Mode
Alt+W Toggle Main Window
Alt+E Toggle Playlist Editor
Alt+G Toggle Graphical Equalizer
Alt+V Toggle Video Window
Alt+L Toggle Media Library
Ctrl+Tab Cycle through different Winamp windows
Alt+S Go to Skin selection
Ctrl+P Go to Preferences
Alt+F Open Main Menu
Alt+K Configure current visualization plug-in
Ctrl+Sh+K Start/stop current visualization plug-In
Ctrl+K Open visualization plug-in section of preferences
Ctrl+J Jump to time in current track
J or Keypad . Open jump-to-file box
Ctrl+Alt+N Spawn new Winamp instance
Alt+M Minimize Winamp
Ctrl+H Show recently played files/streams (History :)