Flock blog editor
In this post, I mentioned that I was looking for a good blog editor for Ubuntu. I saw this article that mentioned Flock, and decided to try it out. This is a browser, based on Firefox code, that is gear towards social networking.
In addition to social network activities, Flock also included a blog editor. This allows you to do offline editing of blog entries.
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Ubuntu media player
When I was using my Mac Book Pro, I used iTunes to play all of my content. iTunes makes it easy to organize your audio collection as well as play your subscribed podcasts. Obvousily, iTunes will synchronize content with iPods.
When I switched to Ubuntu, I looked for a music player that would have a similar feature set. I heard about Amarok, but I couldn’t figure out how to import the OPML feed from iTunes. Also I couldn’t find a menu to subcribe to a podcast feed url.
I started to use gPodder, as I was able to import my OPML file, if I posted it to a web accessible place. gPodder uses Movie Player to actually play the content. This is great as it can play many formats. Unfortunately, this also means the gPodder can not track podcast play state to know when to delete the file. Also it doesn’t rememer the play position if you pause while playing a partictular eposide.
I took another look at Amarok, and then I relaized that there were a bunch of tabs along the left side. The "Playlist" tab has a "Podcasts" folder. If you right click on that folder, you can add a podcast feed. I have added both my audio and video feeds to Amarok. I listen to the audio podcasts within Amarok, and have configured Amarok to launch Movie Player for video items.
Great iPhone ad
This is a great iPhone ad.
[via Apple Gazette]
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TV Wall Mount accessories
Today, I saw these two posts (1, 2)that mention two helpful items when wall mounting a TV.
The PowerBridge is a kit that makes it easy to add a recessed outlet behind a wall mounted TV. The kit includes all of the items needed, except for the romex wire.
APC offers a wall mounted power filter. This offers surge protection and noise filtering for tvs. The cool thing about is that it is hidden by the TV.
Where’s the mount?
Nautilus makes it very easy to mount file servers. When you select "Connect to Server…" and enter the mount information, the mount appears in the UI as a mounted disk.
I would like to be able to use rsync to copy files to and from the mount. The problem is that I don’t know where the actual mountpoint is.
If anyone knows where Nautilus mounts servers, please let me know.
copy files with extension
I was looking for a command to copy all of the files with a given extension from one directory to another. I know I could pipe the output of find to xargs where cp would be run, but you have to take special care to escape the paths.
Here is a way to do the same thing with rsync:
rsync -azvE -r -m --include "*/" --include "*.mp3" --exclude "*" --verbose --progress /source/path/ /destination/path/
