Last week I discovered Listen, yet another music player/database written in Python for the Gnome desktop. I tweeted it and I think it looks quite nice; has issues though, so I decided to jump in and fix some stuff. For example the cover fetch from Amazon. Amazon decided to require a signature for each REST [...]

RT @tritonrc #reframeit vs. Google http://bit.ly/4aE0Za #
#level26 http://bit.ly/1oF6r5 #
Cracking Loom & Monkey Island 1 (German) http://bit.ly/1eNzHe #scummvm #lucasarts #loom #monkeyisland #
Great Craig Ferguson monologue about rain and driving http://bit.ly/39LfRu #latelateshow #craigferguson #
funny pictures about how ideas get killed off: http://bit.ly/17eGFW #
gnome empathy accounts vanish when using a keyring password http://bit.ly/3BirjT #gnome #ubuntu #karmicempathy #
Google Go [...]

In case you were wondering, like me, where the hell the icons in the Firefox searchplugin dropdown menu went in Karmic… someone thought it would be a great idea to disable all the menu icons in Gnome and those searchplugin icons are treated as such menu icons, so you have to re-enable all Gnome menu [...]

So Empathy is the new default IM client in Ubuntu Karmic. I personally like the tight integration of IM and my online status in the Gnome desktop. It’s just strange, that it does not automatically start when I log in or at least offer me a convenient way to make it so. So here’s a [...]

Linux based media centers have become pretty common these days. They usually offer some menu system to browse videos and your music archive. Some even offer RSS integration or a simple web browser. I decided for myself, that all those interfaces are nice, but not powerful or flexible enough for me — so I just [...]