Cpt. Jack Sparrow’s Pearl

This a free great tool that lets you choose software sources online woithout any effort at all.
it some how reminds me with Mandriva’s Easyurpmi tool .. they are both great and save alot of time

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man it’s been a while since i wrote anything in here ,but it’s good to be back

Lsongs is one of the best and more elegant music player i’ve ever seen for linux.
it virtually does every thing supports import and playback of MP3, M4A, Ogg, WAV, and Sun au formats. It will rip CDs to either MP3 or Ogg. It will burn CDs from MP3, Ogg, WAV and M4A.
it also has support for MP3tunes which you can purchase music from it without the DRM crap.

many people tried to get Lsongs working on Ubuntu but it the experience wasn’t that successful UNTIL Freespire 2.0 came out which is basically built on Ubuntu feisty.

now you can install Lsongs in Ubuntu in a few simple steps

1- install xine restricted formates to be able to play mp3s and stuff .. it can be install from the add/remove applications menu under  ‘sound & video’
2-Edit your sources list to include Freespire’s repo

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this line to the file and save

deb http://apt2.freespire.org/CNRUbuntu skipjack-feisty main restricted

3- update your sources list

sudo apt-get update

4- install Lsongs

sudo apt-get install lsongs

you might get an error due to missing gpg key .. choose to install anyway .

it’s safe to remove the freespire repo from your sources list after installing Lsongs.. enjoy:D

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I know the first thing people will say : why the heck any body would run IE on Linux in the first place.
Well the answer is very simple .. NOBODY would run IE in Linux unless he have to.
If you are a web developer or even designing your own page on a Linux platform, the major problem is how it looks on a crappy browser like IE
most of the Internet users use IE which makes you  forced to have windows and evern restart your whole system just to see how your page looks  in IE .
Well .. the Pain is over .. here comes  ies4linux a fully automated script to install IE 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 on your Linux system with the help of wine.
and the script developer said that IE 7 support is coming soooon.
ies4linux is pretty easy to use .. just run the script and answer with Y/N to the versions you want to install and that’s it.. you are done having an IE icon on your desktop

here how it looks on my Ubuntu Dapper system
(click to enlarge)

Please if you really don’t have to use IE please switch to FireFox or Opera
they are much faster safer and you’ll help web developers creating more beautiful sites without having to worry about BAD browsers