XfApplet is a small program that allows you to run Gnome panel applets from the XFCE panel. It’s available in the Ubuntu universe repositories. You can install it from the command line using aptitude. (You can also use apt-get.) sudo aptitude install xfce4-xfapplet-plugin If you’re not using Ubuntu you can download the XfApplet source package …
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Adobe AIR is a runtime environment that allows developers to create platform independent desktop applications based on existing web application technologies. Basically, it allows programs that would normally run inside a web browser to be run as desktop applications. One very nice thing that the Adobe people did was to make their installer create a …
Continue reading How To Install Adobe AIR on LinuxI did a post on the Ubuntu Forums a while back on how to update mp3 file tags with a program called EasyTAG. I’ve tried a few different tag editors and found that EasyTAG best meets my needs. It’s available in the Universe repositories in Ubuntu.
Continue reading Tagging mp3 Files in Linux with EasyTAGI recently started a telecommuting job that requires me to log my hours to different projects. I started out using Stopwatch and logging time on a spreadsheet. One drawback of Stopwatch is that it seems to be a bit resource hungry. Not needing millisecond accuracy, I decided to look for something else. Enter the Hamster …
Continue reading Keep Track of Your Time with Hamster AppletMp3splt is a Linux program that can break mp3 files into smaller pieces without re-encoding. This is nice for long mp3 files like e-books or for putting language learning CDs onto your mp3 player. Sometimes you only have a few minutes to listen to your language lesson and you’d rather not start at the beginning …
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