Around 2 weeks ago, I blogged about how cool Amarok is and it’s scripts in “Pimp your Amarok: 13 Scripts You Should Know About“. Script 5 is particularly interesting, here take a look: 5-Amarok Blacklist Who doesn’t have a parody here or a retro gaming techno remix there? But you don’t really want them to »
I have written a guest post over at Polishlinux on howto get the most out of social media on your Ubuntu box. That’s my first guest blog! W00T! Sometimes I get the feeling that Web 2.0 is just too fancy for Linux, loads of tools, websites, and apps are being developed without taking Linux users »
Digg went down today! But that’s not what really intrigued me. Digg had a “We’ll Be Back Shortly” page with a recommended website from each staff member, but if you look closer, you will also see the Digg logo on the top and what seemingly is a server and a pixelated Debian logo!! This is »
Amarok is a very intuitive and user friendly music player, it makes playing music on your PC even more fun. It has tons of options that would put any other player to shame. Right out of the box it can fetch lyrics, album covers from Amazon, and artist bios from Wikipedia! Anyhow these features are »
NOTE: This howto is for Linux users. If you are a Windows user go pay someone $40 and then another $15. Good luck. So you are at work and really want a song but just can’t get it because torrenting at work is blocked or could really get you in trouble? No problem, why not »
You will probably notice that the default Ubuntu install screws up your valuable real estate very badly, everything is just cramped up. We need to do the some tweaks to snug everything into it’s place. Smaller Fonts: gconftool-2 –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_font –type string “Sans 8″ gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name –type string “Sans 8″ gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name –type »
Well not really, it’s just a funny little ad by techradar I found in the Linux Format Special Edition “CODE IT!” /* TOP SECRET Microsoft(c) Project:Longhorn(TM) SP1 Estimated release date:2008 */ #include “win95.h” #include “win98.h” #include “leopard.h” char chew_up_some_ram[10000000]; void main () { while (!CRASHED) { if (first_time_install) { make_10_gigabyte_swapfile(); do_nothing_loop(); search_and_destroy(FIREFOX | OPENOFFICEORG | »
While going about my business trying to find more slick Linux desktops, I decided to check out the Compiz website. So normally I navigated to the screenshot section. I was left unsatisfied with a handful of low-res pictures. But I noticed a discussion link; so I thought “alright let’s check that out maybe other people »
