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Amarok 2: now with 100% more audio playing on Windows – Amarok Blog

Amarok 2: now with 100% more audio playing on Windows – Amarok Blog

Here is come great news for windows users. The great linux music player is being ported to the windows platform. Here is a screenshot of amarok playing on windows.

But as the site says that it is still an alpha software so somewhat unstable. I am eagerly waiting the first version to come. I hope it comes out soon.

Tabs for windows explorer

QT Tab Bar is a new software that I have come across that alows you to have tabs on windows explorer.

It integrates very well in the windows interface and adds features that are normally associated to a web browser like firefox. When you middle click on a folder it opens in a new tab, middle click opens a tab and it also stores a history for tabs.

You can optionally make many more changes to the explorer making more usable and easier to navigate.

The download link is on this page.

Periodically changing desktop wallpaper using Ruby

Here is small ruby script that picks up a random image from a given folder and sets it as the desktop wallpaper.

   1: require 'Win32API'

   2:  

   3: SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20

   4: SPIF_SENDCHANGE = 0x2

   5: SOURCE_FOLDER = "C:\\Users\\Gaurav\\Pictures\\Best\\"

   6:  

   7: files = Dir.entries(SOURCE_FOLDER) - [".", ".."]

   8: file = files[rand(files.length)]

   9:  

  10: systemParametersInfo = Win32API.new("user32","SystemParametersInfo",["I", "I", "P", "I"],"I")

  11: p systemParametersInfo.call(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 1, SOURCE_FOLDER + file, SPIF_SENDCHANGE)

The constant SOURCE_FOLDER can be changed to point at the folder which contain all your wallpaper and the script then randomly chooses a wallpaper from the collection.

You can also set your task scheduler to run this script automatically after a fixed interval so that your desktop wallpaper keeps changing.

Here is the pastie.

Windows XP SP3 boasts speed boost, testers claim

According to this link http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9048658 SP3 has made XP significantly faster.

Like users needed another reason for not migrating to VISTA.

10 of my favorite softwares

I like to explore softwares. I usually install a lot of softwares on my system. I thought that I should make a list of my favorite softwares and share it with everybody. All of there softwares are either open-source or free.

1. Autohotkey(FOSS): It manages your hotkeys globally and allows you to create complex actions based on the keys pressed. Its actually got its own scripting language which is rather easy to learn. Just write a script in a file with extension .ahk and double click the file to execute it.

With AutoHotKey you can:

• manage processes, windows and control both keyboard and mouse.
• create macros saving you precious keystrokes.
• re-map keys and buttons on your keyboard and mouse.

I have been using AutoHotKey for quite a while now and I use it to manage my code snippets, have consistent hotkeys across applications and creating macros like googling the selected text in any application. The following is the AutoHotKey script for it:

   1: #g::

   2: Send ^c

   3: Run http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=%clipboard%

   4: return

So by using this script whenever I press Ctrl+G the script will open a browser and search the selected text in google. Nice isn’t it?

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Tags: open source, software, windows