mediabox – a quick review
mediabox is a capable audio/video player using gstreamer for playback. Unlike Totem it doesn’t rely on Gnome. Unlike Parole it doesn’t rely on Xfce. mediabox is a lightweight player good for use in...
View Articlegeany ide colour schemes
Geany is possibly the most useful editor in linux. Full stop. Except for VIM. One key missing feature was to easily change the colour highlighting of the editor and a major reason I kept preferring...
View ArticleDiaph – qtcurve/gtk
My first play with QTCurve, The idea was to highlight the excellent Betelgeuse iconset. You can get it (and a link to Betelgeuse) at my deviantArt page .
View Articlefave app of the moment
QMPlay2. Media player with integrated YouTube browser, equaliser, playlist management, simple visualisation & stream information. You can customise the interface to suit your needs by dragging the...
View Articlehi-fi headphone amp using NE5534
Why This Amp? My main listening source is a Marantz CD 5001 OSE. My main headphone is an AKG 601. Both excellent in their own right but the system is let down by the harsh and unmusical amp on the...
View Articleusing mc in xterm
Running midnight commander in an xterm can present a few problems, notable the alt+key combinations don’t work and alt+enter switches xterm to fullscreen. These issues can be easily remedied by adding...
View Articleurxvt font rendering with freetype
uRxvt kerns freetype fonts too widely leading to a fairly ugly looking terminal. Correct this by using the following in your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources. urxvt*letterSpace: -1
View Articlecalligra vs libre office – an updated quick review
Words vs Writer Another in the quick review series. Just enough info to whet your appetite but not too much to get bogged down with. This article concentrates just on the word processors of the two...
View Articlea kde speedup
I’m on a fairly old machine so any speed improvements to KDE are really welcome. Here’s one that worked well for me but may not be suitable in all cases. Akonadi is a service which collects meta-data...
View Articlerekonq, qupzilla and the whole desktop browser thing
Earlier I posted that qupzilla was the better browser. Compared to rekonq at the time this was correct but I’ve tried rekonq 2 beta and its the hands-down winner. But… A really, really annoying point...
View Articlefast linux screencap
How to get a decent screencap at a decent filesize. Record My Desktop and xvidcap are no longer developed and so the winner (for me at least) is ffmpeg. (Is there nothing it can’t do?) I’m running on...
View Articlekde telepathy
KDE Telepathy finally seems usable. Makes a good change from pidgeon. And yes, everyone’s waiting for 0.6.
View Articlefave app of the moment
spacefm. it almost instantly replaced my efforts with rox and qtfm. Using any wm that isn’t kde or gnome?, then forget pcmanfm, rox, thunar etc. this one has a modern interface you can customise to...
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