Saturday, September 30, 2006

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

the problem with amarok solved

Okay So the problem with amarok scanning my music was because I was using smbfs to mount the share from my server.. I guess the TagLib doesn't work very well over smbfs. I changed fstab to use cifs instead and remounted the shares. Amarok scanned all of my music this way. Not as fast as if it was locally stored, but it didn't freeze any. Hooray for me .

Friday, August 18, 2006

Last.Fm and amarok

So I've had an account on Last.FM for a long time but I never really used it.. I started using it again the other day because Amarok had an option for the audioscrobbler thing. And I downloaded the plugin for winamp on windows as well. So my list of played songs should be updated pretty constantly now..
Unless I decide to switch away from amarok.. It seems like a decent player but I dont like that it uses KDE. And it also has problems scanning my music collection.. since only about 2gb of it are stored locally and I get the other 50gb or so through a Samba share on my server(same network). None of the other players have this much of a problem using it though, so I might switch back to xmms or mpd/mpc sometime soon.

As for my last 10 played songs:

Monday, July 31, 2006

Top 10 OSS Games You've Never Played

A list of 10 opensource (free) games that you probably haven't heard of. They're worth checking out if you're bored.. And there's a bunch more listed in the comments.

Read more at akaimbatman.intelligent...

Friday, July 28, 2006

Make a Call!

This is kinda cool.. You can enter a number to call, and type a message and then it calls that number and plays the message back to them using a text-to-speech thing. You can even change the number that shows up on Caller ID.

Read more at tvm.phpnet.us/

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Slashdot | Google Releases Google Browser Sync Extension

I used to have an extension for firefox that synced my bookmarks to my ftp server but it stopped getting updated, and this is awesome.

Read more at slashdot.org/articles/0...

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

pandora

http://pandora.com/
it's neat.. and its free