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It took friggin’ forever, but Amarok is finally able to transfer album artwork to my beloved iPod Nano! Supposedly, album art support has been in Amarok for a while, but it didn’t work because Amarok couldn’t correctly set the iPod model string.
Well, fortunately, Amarok 1.4.6 has been released. And even more fortunately, it is already [...]

I am certain that most everyone saw ZDNet’s article/editorial describing “five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t understand about the average computer user. When I read the title of the article, I immediately became defensive. After all, what in the world could the ZDNet folks know about Linux? Who are they to say why Linux [...]

I am a big fan of ljcharm, a console/command line LiveJournal client written in python. I’ve been using it for a while now, mainly because I’ve gone super-minimalistic with regards to ‘net applications. I use mutt for email, centericq for chatting, slrn for newsgroups, and ljcharm for posting to LiveJournal. With screen to tie them [...]

I don’t know how I didn’t run across the tivodecode project on SourceForge before now. Somehow it completely slipped by me. But I finally tracked it down this week, and have been playing with it since. And it all boils down to this: tivodecode is good stuff.
tivodecode’s install was surprisingly simple. I nabbed the latest [...]

I’ve mentioned here before that my digital music collection is massive. We’re at 15,000 songs with more being added every month. I’ve built this collection from a number of sources, including ripping from CDs, purchasing from iTunes, and downloading from eMusic. This has left me with a gigantic music library, and a music library [...]

Linux.com has another great article up, this time re-reviewing text email clients. You may ask, “Why use a text email client nowadays, when there are so many GUI-based clients available in all distributions?” And I have an easy answer for you: Try running KMail/Kontact/Thunderbird/Evolution over a console-based SSH connection. Doesn’t work ‘cuz there’s no X [...]

In case you didn’t already know, IBM’s Developer Works website is a treasure trove of UNIX knowledge. As expected, it leans heavily towards AIX, but there are hidden gems in there about other flavors of UNIX, Linux, and tips and hints that apply to all forms of *NIX. Case in point: Learn 10 good UNIX [...]

Linux.com continues their fun series of application comparison. This time up: Top Linux photo managers side-by-side:
Of the photo-management landscape looks bleak so far, don’t give up yet — there are alternatives. I am a big fan of GQview, a GTK-based image viewer that offers fewer features than either DigiKam or F-Spot, but in practice works [...]

Putting aisde (for now) the interesting history of the X11Amp series of media players, and ignoring the multiple typos in the article, I stumbled upon a rather startling revelation:
Leaving off where the BMP development team stopped, William “nenolod” Pitcock decided to fork BMP a few days after Milosz started BMPx, and called it Audacious. Starting [...]

Okay, so viewing your filesystem in three dimensions isn’t as popular today as it was a few years go. It is still very, very cool, though, and it’s fun to pull out the viewers and give them a whirl:
Whether you’re searching for an unused nook in a cramped disk partition, or trying to find the [...]