My favorite Internet radio station by far is Pandora. If you never tried Pandora do not waste a moment, go set up a free account and start listening. Pandora is a lot different than other Internet radio stations. Pandora is a music discovery service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites.

The first thing that you will see when using Pandora is that it is run inside your web browser. PandoraBoy frees you from using your web browser and allows you to control your music with global hotkeys or your apple remote. Additionally, it supports growl notifications so that you always know what your listening to. PandoraBoy is free and open source for OS X users.

• Listen to Pandora.com without having to have a web browser open
• Control Pandora with global hotkeys or your apple remote
• Discover new artists with ease by watching growl notifications of the currently playing song
• New: Applescript support (which allows you to change songs from external applications such as Quicksilver)
• New: Redesigned global hotkey selection to use Shortcut Recorder
• New: Application icon was redesigned

I have been using PandoraMan a similar application for sometime. PandoraBoy adding control with your Apple Remote and Growl has now made Pandora even more compelling.

If you are interested in running Pandora in a widget check out Pandora Radio Widget, Pandora Dashboard Widget, Pandora Widget for TypePad, or you can add Pandora to your blog. I have just added Pandora to ReelSmart. Listen and Enjoy!

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