Tools I use

On a daily basis
- Ubuntu Linux
- GNU Emacs 23
- Conkeror Browser
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- KeePassX
- Dropbox
- Calibre - to keep my books and other documents organize
- Bash Shell with byobu
- Empathy for multi-protocol chat
- Firestarter Firewall
- Tasque - to sync with Remember the milk service (RTM)
- Rhythmbox Music Player
- AllTray, very convenient to move running application to system tray

Less Frequently
- Bootup-Manager (bum)
- Grsync
- Ubuntu Tweak
- Filezilla
- Shutter for taking screenshots

Drivel for Ubuntu

Finally there is a decent blog client for Ubuntu, it's Drivel.

I tried Drivel before but unfortunately it never logged in after install. But today it logged in into my Blogger account magically.

Now on, I'll try and post as many blogs as possible to interesting things I come across. I also need to find out how to attach labels to blog in Drivel.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Using rhythmbox-client

I'd like to listen to music when I'm working, when learning, when relaxing and almost all the time.

The problem is I have all my music collection in my desktop and I work from laptop. And to change music, radio stations, I need to go to desktop.

There is a simple solution for this problem I found today.

I use Ubuntu in my desktop and Rhythmbox to play music. There is a small command line utility rhythmbox-client. So I connect to my desktop with ssh and use rhythmbox-client command to control music being played in my desktop.

Here are few sample commands I tried to far:

rhythmbox-client --play-uri=http://38.101.195.5:8132/listen.pls (TORI Radio Channel)

rhythmbox-client --print-playing

rhythmbox-client --next

rhythmbox-client --volume-down

rhythmbox-client --volume-up

Hope to find some more small tools like this to make my life easy.

Oh, BTW, I forgot to tell you I stopped connecting external mouse to my laptop to force myself use keyboard more. :)