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If you have a Gallery* setup running in the web (like me) and are using F-Spot to manage your Fotos (like I do), you might be interested in this Blog-Post.

This is a short HowTo how you can export pictures from F-Spot directly in one of your Gallery albums.
First you have to install the Remote-Module into your Gallery installation. Download and Install the Module by activating it in your Gallery admin-interface.
After that, you can use the exporter in F-Spot. You can reach it after selecting the Fotos you want to export and go into the File menu. Go to Export > Export to Web-Gallery. That will open a dialog to manage the export. First you have to register your Gallery installation, by clicking the Add button and adding your Gallery details. That will connect F-Spot with your Gallery. After that you can select the Available Albums from the dropdown and export your pictures to your online Gallery.

*This refers to the opensource PHP-Software for web-galleries.

Pidgin ist ja eigentlich schon dafür bekannt, dass es so viele IM-Protokolle unterstützt. Allerdings fehlen von Hause aus noch das Facebook und das Skype-Protokoll. Beide können aber recht einfach nachgerüstet werden.
Das Facebook-Protokoll lässt sich einfach mit einem Plugin aktivieren und danach wie jedes andere Protokoll benutzen.
Bei Skype gibt es natürlich die entsprechenden Einschränkungen. Es wird selbstverständlich nur das Chatten unterstützt und Skype muss auch trotzdem gestartet sein, um dessen Infrastruktur über die Skype-API oder über Dbus zu nutzen. Aber immerhin hat man dann wenigstens nur einen Client, um wirklich alle Buddies zu verwalten. Und das ist ja schließlich auch schonmal ein großer Gewinn. Zumindest solange bis alle Jabber/XMPP verwenden (SCNR).

Hier nochmal die Links:
Facebook Plugin
Skype Plugin

Banshee 1.0 was finally released a few days ago. Yesterday I got it installed on my Ubuntu machine. Ubuntu Debs are already there too available in the Banshee Ubuntu repository.
If you have tried Banshee and didn't like it in the earlier versions, you should give it another shot it's really worth trying. Except of the brilliant last.fm integration we heard about already, it has many other improvements too and finally we have an Artist/Album browser as well!

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I already now a few players for the Linux desktop, like Rhythmbox, Banshee, Muine, AmaroK, Exaile and some others. Some of them have developed to really nice pieces of software, like Banshee and Rhythmbox, which offer a nice music management along with a nice GUI. I already wrote about the upcomming version of Banshee for example.
Today I discovered (via blog-post) another nice player which is still quite young, but looks good. It's name is BMPx following the Beep Media Player (BMP), but it has a completely new interface. The Integration of music web-services is well done. Like Last.fm for example. But it also offers other stuff you already know from Rhythmbox, like Jamendo integration and of course Podcast and Internet-Radio management. Worth to give it a try at least.

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The new GNOME clock/weather-applet somtimes has different opinions when it comes to temperature. Like in this case:


I think the temperature in the Tooltip is the right one. The 1°C in the panel itself didn't change over the past few hours...

After I installed Foresight-Linux on my old Laptop today, to take a look at the new GNOME 2.22, I could also get a glimpse on the new version of Banshee. The New Last.fm-Radio integration looked just great, though it seems not yet to be rock solid, in the 0.13.x release. After happily playing a bit with this feature, I already had discovered some nice new tracks.
Comming back to my normal computer and checking my newreader, I found out that other people are happy with that feature too and that there is already a new alpha release of Banshee. The release (1.0 Alpha 1) just came out today and is bringing even more great features. From the initial article I finally landed on the »official blog entry« and the release notes.
That all looks so great, that I think Banshee will be my default music-player, as soon the stable version of 1.0 is out. They finally implemented the new Artist/Album browser, I always missed too. I also learned today that the search-field in Banshee is much more powerful than I would have guessed.
So, better to stay tuned on the music player issue, Rhythmbox is finally getting some serious competitors...

Link to the Changelog Overview.

Kaum gab es die ersten großen Diskussionen und Ankündigungen zum Internet Explorer 8, schon gibt es eine erste Beta-Version.
Ich dachte die fangen erst gerade an mit Entwickeln. Im Vergleich zu den Vorgängern ging das ja echt mal flott. IE7 hat sich ja noch nicht mal komplett verbreitet und schon kommt der Nachfolger...