Ubuntu Linux is so awesome. I'm just running it off a live cd right now. I'm going to install it once I get my computer sorted out. It is the nicest Linux OS that I've tried. Very user friendly, which Is something I need right now.
Foobar 2000 is the best audio player available. If you customize it correctly, it can look really awesome. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to customize it. Especially since the community who makes the skins has horrible taste in graphic design and just to find something worth copying is impossible. If I could find the link to the customized layout that I'm using, I'll post it. Right now I have it set up to display album art and lyrics for the songs that it plays (Although I haven't got the lyrics plugin set up yet).
Crystal Player has replaced winamp as my favorite video player. I wish the playlist could be separated, but otherwise it is a pretty decent player. It has a lot of nice on screen displays to make it very easy to use a mouse to manage it. It can also be set up to display thumbnails of random parts of the video when browsing the playlist. I am haven't configured the hotkeys and programmed my remote for it yet, but I will shortly.
Synergy is the best program to use if you have more than one computer. It allows you to share a keyboard and mouse over the network so you can type, copy and paste seamlessly between two screens.
Song Bird is a audio player that is supposed to rival itunes. I am not a fan of itunes, but itunes beats this thing for now. It has really good ideas, though. It has a built in web browser and links to podcasts, allmusic and many other websites. I was able to listen to a podcast by Pen & Teller with just a couple clicks after installing it. This program may get better in the future, but it's a little bulky and clumsy right now.
That's all for now,
Niem
 | Currently listening : Dub Side of the Moon By Easy Star All Stars Release date: 18 February, 2003  |
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