Well not exactly the laptop but the screen died on me, after being able to re energize my screen by pressing in certain areas since yesterday that little trick doesn’t work anymore. So I’m writing this from my windows box instead of my Linux laptop. Read the rest of this entry »

As some of you might know I create/update packages for Ubuntu for the GetDeb project. What the project tries to accomplish is supply updated or newly created packages that aren’t in the Ubuntu repository. Ubuntu is sometimes late with updates for packages, like the official repository still has Pidgin 2.2.1 while 2.3.1 has been out for quiet a while and maybe a few days after it’s release you could download the latest version on GetDeb. One of the reasons why Ubuntu hasn’t updated their version yet is because of the focus on the new release, Hardy, and because of all the patches they create themselves.

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I just converted the WordPress database to UTF-8. It turned out when I create a database on my hosting website it defaults to latin1. The conversion was pretty easy in just a few steps.

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I’ve been using a windows box for my photography workflow, meaning I import my NEF files into Lightroom, remove unwanted pictures, convert them into DNG, add keywords, add to collections, make necessary changes as needed like white-balance, exposure and if needed I do some more touch-ups in Photoshop, saving them as PSD so I can stack them in Lightroom.

I wanted to see if I could do the same on my Linux machine.

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I really only keep MP3 files, I have flacs as well, but usually convert them to mp3. In my humble opinion there’s only one tagger you should use on Linux, EasyTAG.
I love the layout and the amount of tags you can edit but if you ask me which tagger is the best I would answer Tag&Rename.
The fact you can download album info from Amazon.(com|co.uk|de|co.jp|ca) makes this tagger. I haven’t stumbled up on an album yet which gave me the wrong information using the Amazon lookup. Let me clarify that, yes I have had lists of possibilties for one album and some of them were incorrect but their always has been a correct one as well. Recently I found an album that I couldn’t find on Amazon.com and it turned out it was a UK release and amazon.co.uk gave me the right info. The other very good part is the album cover download through Amazon. Unfortunately this only runs on Windows and I don’t won’t to run it under Wine.

Hopefully the people at Tag&Rename will create a Linux port, I sure hope so.