Menjadi Penduduk FlutterScape

Pernah denger flutterscape.com? Belun? Ya coba dikunjungi saja webnya

Flutterscape itu semacam online shopping portal yang khusus memfasilitasi orang-orang yang berdomisili di Jepang untuk mempromosikan barang2 menarik dari Jepang.

Karena masih baru, pengiriman barang belum mencakup banyak negara. Tapi hebatnya, untuk Asia, Indonesia sudah bisa!

Sebagai mahasiswa yang sedang menimba ilmu di negeri orang, saya mencoba sedikit usaha menopang hidup . Kunjungi profile saya ya disini

http://www.flutterscape.com/user/nicnocquee

Disitu kamu bisa nemuin beberapa barang yg saya anggap menarik

Oia, denger2 gosipnya, flutterscape dipelopori ama orang Indonesia lho!

Bye Rhythmbox, Welcome Exile

Rhythmbox sebagai pemain musik default di Ubuntu sudah cukup baik buat saya sehingga saya tidak pernah menggantinya dengan Amarok, ato yg lain. Namun setelah mengupgrade Ibex ke Jaunty saya mengalami sedikit anomali dengan rhythmbox.

Anomali pertama adalah rhythmbox tidak henti2nya memunculkan dialog untuk mencari plugin/codec yg tepat apabila menemukan file yang tidak bisa ia atasi di librari musik setiap rhythmbox dijalankan. Seingat saya dulu begitu sekali saya cancel dialog yg muncul, dialog tersebut tidak akan muncul lagi.

Anomali kedua adalah apabila aplikasi yg berjalan sudah cukup banyak (lebih dari tiga), saat sedang memainkan musik, lagu yg sedang dimainkan akan berhenti sejenak (sekitar kurang dari satu detik) setiap saya memindahkan fokus dari satu aplikasi ke aplikasi yang lain (application switching). Rasanya seperti rhythmbox menggunakan resource yg cukup besar sehingga sedikit perubahan bisa mengganggu proses lagu yg sedang dimainkan.

Akhirnya saya memilih untuk mencoba music player lain. Amarok bukan pilihan, karena menggunakan Qt library. Lalu saya menemukan Exaile. Dan ternyata sangat bagus! Simple, mirip amarok, dan tidak ada lagi anomali seperti yg dialami rhythmbox

I Love Ubuntu

It’s been quite some time, but today I feel like showing my Ubuntu desktop in my lab’s PC Before that, here is some tips and tricks you might find useful:

1. If you’re using cairo-dock, you might want it to be appear and accessible all the time to show it off or so that you can access it easily. Setting it always on top sometimes not a good solution because sometimes you need to click something on the bottom of the window application but cairo will be on your way. One solution I like is to make cairo behave like mac’s dock: Applications always open above the dock. This can be easily done by
   Right click on the dock -> Cairo Dock -> Configure. Use the Advance Mode. In the Position category -> check "Reserve space at the edge of the screen of the dock" -> Apply ->OK.
That’s it! Now you can maximize your application window without covering cairo-dock.
2. If you’re using screenlets, you might realize that everytime you do “Show Desktop” the screenlets will also go minimized. In this PC I don’t want to treat the screenlets as widgets like I did in my laptop, but the minimized behaviour’s quite annoying. Here is the solution:
   Open gconf-editor (from terminal) -> then go to /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/ -> Uncheck "hide_skip_taskbar_windows". That’s it!

Cairo-Dock

Screenlets

Desktop Cube

Crunchbang Linux Inside Ubuntu

Weather Screenlets

According to this thread in Ubuntu Forum, in order to be able to use weather screenlet like ClearWeather or SmoothWeather, we need to edit /usr/share/screenlets/ClearWeather/ClearWeatherScreenlet.py and add “&link=xoap” to the xoap.weather.com URL. So the URL will look like this
http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/'+self.ZIP+'?cc=*&dayf=10∏=xoap&link=xoap&par=1003666583&key=4128909340a9b2fc&unit='+unit+'&hbhf=12&link=xoap'

And if you dont know the zipcode of your city, go to weather.com then input your city and search. Look at the address toolbar in your browser. In my case, I looked for Osaka and this is what I got:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/JAXX0071?lswe=Osaka,%20JAPAN&lwsa=Weather36HourBusinessTravelerCommand&from=searchbox_typeahead

From that URL, my zipcode is JAXX0071. Enter that in your weather screenlet and be prepared for tomorrow’s weather

Can u play videos in this page?

halo teman2 pengguna ubuntu!

I need a little of your help. In my ubuntu 9.04, I had problem playing videos from youtube in this page – the videos were lagging and firefox became hardly responding. I installed both flahs plugin non free and adobe flash from the repository.  Eventually I found out that it was because there were multiple videos on that page. I can play an embedded flash video on a webpage if there’s only one video. Playing videos in youtube is also not a problem at all.

So if anyone successfully play videos on that page using firefox in Ubuntu, please kindly mention in the comment of that page or here:

1. Your Ubuntu version
2. Your machine spec
3. Your Firefox version
4. Your flash player version

O ya, one more thing, if by any chance you know the solution of this problem, please kindly tell me too

Thanks a lot!