Thursday, November 29, 2007

Links to ELO's Digital Story Blog on the Kindle...

Books from fullbooks.com I'm currently reading on the PSP:
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Trinity (Atomic Test) Site by the National Atomic Museum
http://www.fullbooks.com/Trinity-Atomic-Test-Site.html

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) (3 parts)
http://www.fullbooks.com/Through-the-Looking-Glass.html

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (15 parts)
http://www.fullbooks.com/The-History-of-The-Decline-and-Fall-of-the.html

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will by William Shakespeare
(Collins edition) (3 parts)

http://www.fullbooks.com/Twelfth-Night-or-What-You-Will.html

How to Live 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
http://www.fullbooks.com/How-to-Live-on-24-Hours-a-Day.html

The Hounds of The Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle (4 parts)
http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Hound-of-the-Baskervilles.html

Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville (12 parts)
(Great Movie Screenplay by Ray Bradbury)
http://www.fullbooks.com/Moby-Dick-or-The-Whalex8185.html
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Note: www.fullbooks.com was a "web site of the day" Pick by refdesk.com, and so is

Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
http://aldaily.com/
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As for podcasts (internet radio talk/information shows) my favorite is done by
the Head TWIT himself, Leo Laporte. This xml link, Radio Leo, lets me tune in to the various TWiT.tv shows Leo podcasts on my Sony PSP. They are All good, but MacBreak Weekly, FLOSS Weekly, and especially TWiT are Top Notch, Must Hear podcasts, if you want to stay informed about Open Source, The Mac, and The PC.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

How Beagle and RSS Works.





Kerry, the KDE Beagle is the Desktop Searcher similar to the MAC's Spotlight. (Top Screensave)
You type in a search phrase and the beagle goes a-searching your desktop, Files, Emails, Pictures, Online History sources and RSS Feeds snagged by RSSOwl. A setup file lets you pick how Deep you want the rabbit hole to go. Selecting "ALL" looks everywhere, which can take some time.
Screenshot 2 shows the Beagle Search results by location: Desktop, Files, Pictures etc.
The Beagle called "Kerry", works pretty much as advertised. So you don't need MAC's Spotlight.

RSS is Real Simple Syndication, which up to minute webpage INFO provided in RSS Format which is usually a Headline and a paragraph or less of TEXT information. Most RSS feed readers (like RSSOwl which is available for Windows, the MAC and Linux) display this a three-pane window. The left being a tree structure showing search categories and subcategories and a number showing how many offerings the reader picked up.
In the sample, I clicked on category BOOKS and Sub-category "Variety". In the top right panel, the reader displays the snagged "One-Liners" picked up from the subcategory. Clicking one of these one-liners and more description (as much as a paragraph or MORE) is displayed on the lower right panel.
Reading this more detailed paragraph usually tells you if you need or want to visit the "source" of the information. There are usually a few highlighted terms in this detail window that will link you to the souce.

See Screen Capture 3 and 4.

RSS was initially used to detail the web sites more changable or up-to-date information the site has to offer. But now, even more archiveal information from that site is is accessable.
Such as the "Bambi vs Goliath" article, which appeared in Variety a few months back, which was pretty good explaination about why movies have gotten So Bad.
The link to That page is Here:

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Removing Totem Player from FC6

For some unknown reason Totem Player is the Default video/media Player in Gnome Desktop. The fact that it chokes on most online media makes me wonder why?

The Quick-Fix is to remove it, and most explainations on how to do this is quite Funny.

Do the following (as root): yum -y remove totem

And your headaches are over.

Install GXINE Player for web content, and you're good to go.

Later.