Best Songbird Addon Extensions

1. mashTape – This is one of the first things that made me fall in love with Songbird and remains one of my favourite add-ons. mashTape fetches relevant information about the currently playing track from the web. The main pane shows artist biography, members of the band, discography, and related links fetched from last.fm. It also displays album reviews from Amazon and latest info related to the singer fetched from a number of sources including Google News, Yahoo! News, Google Blogsearch, HypeMachine and Digg. But my favourite feature is the cool slideshow composed of related photos from flickr. And oh yeah, before I forget mashTape also fetches relevant videos from YouTube and Yahoo! Music.

2. Now Playing List - Songbird doesn’t contain a Now Playing list (like Windows Media Player or Winamp) that allows you to quickly drag and drop songs and create custom temporary playlists on the fly. This can be a deal breaker for some (including me). Thankfully, there is an add-on that allows you to add a Now Playing List pane.

3. MediaFlow - I love the iTunes like Filter View present in Songbird. However, if you prefer the flashier Coverflow then MediaFlow is the add-on you are looking for. However, this plug-in does have some performance issues.

4. Equalizer Presets - Songbird finally got an equalizer with its latest release. And it’s a pretty good one. Unfortunately it doesn’t include any presets. Manually tuning a 10-band equaliser according to different types of music is just too much work for me. Thankfully for lazy bums like me GeekShadow has done all the hard work. Go ahead and install this add-on to get some much needed equaliser presets.

5. Metadata Tools - This add-on comes in handy when you are tagging your files. Metadata tools add the option to automatically fill in metadata from filenames. Another nice thing about this tool is that is adds an additional filter to the Filter View – Album Artist. I prefer using this over individual artists as a filter.

6. The Exorcist - The Exorcist allows you to locate broken and missing tracks as well as duplicate tracks. It uses track name, artist name, length and other metadata information to locate duplicate tracks. This is a pretty handy add-on to have and is useful if you want to clean up your media library

7. Song Notifier - Just as the name suggests this add-on displays a little notification window (toaster) whenever a new song starts playing. Additional options include ability to include album cover and specify the icon used in Song Notifier.

Install offline dictionary in ubuntu 9.10

1) sudo apt-get install dictd
sudo apt-get install dict-gcide
sudo apt-get install dict-moby-thesaurus
(2) Go to Application>Office>Dictionary> open the dictionary
(3) Edit>(right click)Preference>Source>Add>
(4) Now enter the following:
Description: Local Dictionary
Transport:
Hostname: localhost
Port:
(5) Add>Source>Local Dictionary(select)>Close

Enable Smooth fonts on Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Linux has an option for font smoothing that isn’t turned on by default for some strange reason. This makes fonts significantly smoother, enough to be very noticable.

To enable this option, you need to edit the .fonts.conf file in your home directory. To create and open the file, run this command and paste in the xml data below it.

gedit ~/.fonts.conf

Paste in this text:

true

You’ll have to log out and back in to see the difference.

Here’s an image of the before:

And here’s an image of the after:

Definitely looks smoother, and is much more readable on my laptop screen.

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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/enable-smooth-fonts-on-ubuntu-linux/

Fix Ubuntu Dropping Wireless on Suspend/Hibernate Resume

Problem:-You put the machine to sleep (suspend) or hibernate it. Arbitrarily sometimes the wireless connection picks up where it left off and you can carry on. Other times it doesn’t and the only easy way to get back your wifi is to reboot.

Solutions

To problem one, I’ve not tested this long enough but it seems to have done the trick. Yes it’s yet another bloody text configuration file. (Why does Linux need so much tweaking for heaven’s sakes, I still love the OS but it gets annoying after a while. Drop in replacement for Windows it isn’t yet…) In /etc/default/acpi-support there is a lot of things you can tweak. Notably what services are killed and restarted on suspend/hibernate.

Find the following line after opening this file (e.g. Alt+F2, and enter gksudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support):

# Add services to this list to stop them before suspend and restart them in
# the resume process.
STOP_SERVICES=""

Change STOP_SERVICES to read:

STOP_SERVICES="networking"

Save the changes and close. With any luck this will fix the problem. What this will do is kill the networking service when you suspend/hibernate but also restart it afresh when you resume; hence there may be a few funny flickers from the Gnome Network-Applet on the panel. Certainly this seems to have worked as my Wireless interface is configured by default on my T40 with the 2100B as eth1 which when I run ifconfig when the wireless has screwed up on resume was not present. Even doing a sudo ifconfig eth1 up which brought it back in would not yield a result.

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