I love listening to Pandora all day long in Safari, but in order for all the features of Pandora to work properly, I have to turn off Safari’s blocking of pop-up windows. But then I get lots of pop-up advertisements in the other websites that I visit. Is there any way to turn off pop-ups just for Pandora?

While Safari doesn’t let you turn off pop-up windows for individual websites, you could listen to Pandora in Firefox, which has this feature built in. When Firefox encounters a pop-up window, it gives you the opportunity to always allow pop-ups for that particular website, and you can go back and manage your pop-up window preferences later.

Firefox's preferences gives you complete control over which websites are allowed to shoot you pop-up windows.

However, you’ve probably shared our frustration of accidentally shutting off all your streaming music by closing out of your browser window or visiting a different website. If that’s happened to you, you may enjoy using PandoraJam ($15, www.bitcartel.com), which lets you access Pandora as a standalone Mac OS X application.

Pandora now sits in our dock as a standard Mac OS X application.

Alternatively, you can use Fluid (free, www.fluidapp.com) to turn any website--not just Pandora--into a site-specific browser (SSB), which is a Mac OS X application dedicated to browsing a specific website. Just like any other Mac app, an SSB puts an icon in your Dock and uses the standard menubar, and you launch and quit it normally. And since Fluid uses the open source WebKit technology that Safari is based on, you get many of the same features in your SSB that you would get with Safari: tabbed browsing, history, and the ability to block pop-up windows.