I gave up on Sound Juicer. Despite it’s funky logo and the ease and accuracy with which it detected the CD information, I eventually got it to rip songs so that Rhythmbox could import them but the files didn’t have the ID3 data (title, artist etc). So I used Grip. Grip is highly customisable and […]
Technology
HazarHazoo moment
I bought a couple of CDs today, Recurring Dream: The Best of Crowded House and She Will Have Her Way: The Songs of Tim & Neil Finn. I was hoping to get the 2 disc set of She Will Have Her Way because it has the female artists singing the Finns’ songs on the first […]
Where are the widgets?
Apparently something that Gnome doesn’t do well is desktop widgets. Yahoo has some pretty swanky ones for Windows, Apple has some extremely cool ones for Mac OSX but where are the Linux ones? I do have something called gDesklets (I include the link but it’s pretty futile because the site is so full of errors […]
Google Reader is better than ever!
Thanks to Clifton, I went and had a look at Google Reader today. If you’ve been reading for a while then you’ll know that I’ve said a bit about Google Reader before. I liked it because I could read posts individually and mark them as read when I’d actually read them. I didn’t like it […]
Flock?
Has anyone used Flock? It looks a bit interesting and these people seem to love it. I’m mainly drawn to it because it can be used to upload lots of photos to Photobucket, which could be quite useful. I’m fairly anti-installprogramswillynilly so I’d appreciate more feedback on this software.
Gnome desktop
I finally figured out how to make my desktop nice and clean. Okay, so hubby helped a lot because my Google searches weren’t bringing up much. What one needs is gconf, which can be used to edit application and desktop preferences. I already had it installed but it wasn’t in my applications list, perhaps they […]
