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.

purpose is just sharing this article was found on:
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.

Article is just for sharing taken from :http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/fix-ubuntu-dropping-wireless-on-suspendhibernate-resume/

Alien in ubuntu

sudo apt-get install alien

HJSPLIT alternative for LINUX

[step 1] Download the gtk-splitter.rpm here: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1116749/com/gtk-splitter-2.0-1.i386.rpm.html
I choose version 2.0-0 because I know it is stable.

[step 2]Next, fire up your terminal and CD to the directory where the gtk-splitter.rpm is, and copy & paste this command line, that will convert the RPM into a DEB installation file.
cd 'home/user_name/Desktop'
sudo alien gtk-splitter-2.0-1.i386.rpm

[step 3] Install the gtk-splitter.deb by clicking on it with your mouse (simplest way???).

[step 4] Use your terminal to start the app "gtk-splitter," or create a Launcher.

I use gtk-splitter all the time for joining and splitting huge archived files. It is very user friendly and fairly easy to use if you are a former Windoze user.

new VUZE 4.3 in Ubunutu

• First you need to install JRE (Java Runtime Environment). Open terminal and paste this line:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

• After JRE installation, download Vuze from Official Site or click here.
• Unpack it to the desktop.
• Go to your home folder and create new folder “.azureus” with dot in front.
• From nautilus View menu, choose “show hidden files”.
• Copy All files from Vuze folder on your desktop into newly created “.azureus” folder.
• You are almost ready. Now you need to add a program launcher to Applications menu. Go to System/Preferences/Main Menu. Then Choose Internet and click “New Item”. On the Create Launcher window choose Browse. Then on new Choose an Application.. window right click to choose Show Hidden Files.

• Next, Go to your Home folder/.azureus and click on “vuze”. To add the vuze Icon just drag and drop vuze.png as on the next picture. Click Ok and that's it :)

You are now ready. Go to Applications/Internet/Vuze to start your new installed application.

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Microsoft Releases Free Anti-Virus Software

Alright Windows users, no more excuses for not having up-to-date anti-virus or anti-malware protection. Microsoft has released its new Security Essentials software that offers real-time protection against viruses, spyware, and other malicious programs. It’s also free.

Although there are lots of anti-virus and anti-malware programs available (many which are also free), perhaps the Microsoft name and easy integration into Windows can help users who might not be familiar with some of the available programs get and stay protected.

Microsoft says that Security Essentials is designed to run quietly in the background (no constant UAC alerts) and that it doesn’t hog CPU or memory usage. A constant complaint about some of the bigger name security suites is that they slow down the computer’s overall performance. Security Essentials also uses what Microsoft calls its Dynamic Signature Service, which is supposed to ensure that users are always protected and up-to-date, without having to wait for the next scheduled download.

Like any other standard security product, you can schedule full or quick system scans, exclude certain file types of processes from being scanned, and designate how you are alerted of various actions and what you want the default step to be.

Security Essentials is free — and no sign-up or registration is necessary — but you need to have a genuine copy of Windows XP SP2 or SP3, Windows Vista, or the upcoming Windows 7. Security Essentials will also run in Windows XP mode in Windows 7 — so if you plan on running XP mode to keep compatibility with older stuff, your security won’t be compromised.

With viruses and malware a constant threat to Windows users all over the world, it’s about time Microsoft offered an actual security package. One note, however — if you already have an anti-virus or anti-malware program installed, make sure you uninstall it before installing Security Essentials.

What do you use to protect your computers against viruses?

SPA Magzine 2009

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