Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Boston’s “Free Your iPod” Party (Today)
Free Culture Boston and the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab are hosting an iPod liberation party. They will be helping people install RockBox or iPodLinux on their iPods — freeing them from Apple’s file type, and DRM, limitations.
I don’t own an iPod (I bought an iRiver instead precisely because of the [...]
The New and Improved Google Reader
Ready for another haiku?
Google’s new Reader –
feeds, like email, are better
when sorted by source.
Who do I think I am… Matsuo Basho? Far from it! Still, this is fun.
So, I tried the Google Reader when it first came out and, well, was extremely underwhelmed. I’m a fan of Google’s search, Google Maps, GMail, [...]
The Marriage of Firefox and Unalog
Dan just recently added the ability to batch edit keyword tags in Unalog, his infinitely useful social bookmarking application (can you tell I’m a fan?). So like a good metadata, cataloging, programming librarian I decided now was the time to start cleaning up some of those wildly divergent keyword tags I’ve been assigning. After all, [...]
Doh! Reinventing the Wheel
Seems there is already a Rhythmbox Audioscrobbler plugin. I haven’t looked at Audioscrobbler lately since I gave up on the XMMS plugin. The RBScrobbler plugin is listed on the Audioscrobbler plugins page, but a more recent version of the plugin can be found on the author’s site. I haven’t tested it out yet.
Today I’ve [...]
Audioscrobbler and Gaim
I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to hook my Rhythmbox music player up to my Audioscrobbler account (I’ve given up on XMMS and its Audioscrobbler plugin (it just doesn’t work for me consistently and XMMS’ interface is getting a bit old in the tooth; besides, the GStreamer stuff behind Rhythmbox looks really interesting)). [...]