New Music Players: Minitunes and Guayadeque

Posted: December 25, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: comp, linux | Tags: , , | Leave a comment »

Two awesome (yes, much more awesome than gmusicbrowser) players/managers are in development. Well, Guayadeque is pretty much developed and is extremely usable, but a bit ugly. The ubuntu repo version did not work for me, hence I picked it up from the site - http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/guayadeque/guayadeque/0.3.1/guayadeque_0.3.1-natty-2_amd64.deb

Minitunes, otoh, is extremely pretty, but under extensive development. Fingers crossed. It is available in ubuntu repos.

Both are extremely fast:
gmusicbrowser – 80mb
guayadeque – 55 mb
minitunes –  60 mb

The best one as of now is Guayadeque. Go for it.

Google command line

Posted: November 30, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: comp, linux | Leave a comment »

A one year old project. Though I knew of this today. Amazing power in my fingers now :)

http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

Google+ mobile link

Posted: July 12, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: comp | Tags: | Leave a comment »

The mobile link for google plus (slow connections):
https://m.google.com/app/plus/x/

If you are using chrome, you should use https://m.google.com/app/plus/ for the better version.

Remedying the glib go error in ubuntu

Posted: May 1, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: linux | Leave a comment »

If you encounter the glib gio error while firing an app from the commandline/shell, such as this one:

GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gio/gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)

Aborted

use the following script. It exports the dbus session and then runs the apps. Simply use: ed.sh <command> or if you have already used a long command and failed: use the trick “ed.sh !!” (!! replicates the last command).

Download the script from: https://gist.github.com/a664a61a49296da16e47

A few new things

Posted: April 21, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: comp | Leave a comment »

1. Opera 11.10 -> Me likey :)
2. Opera Mail -> a bit slow :(
3. Greplin: google it to have a better google :D
4. Firefox Aurora (The dev build)
5. Ubuntu Natty
6. My new blogname.

Pseudo but awesome portable chrome.

Posted: April 19, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: windows | Tags: , , | Leave a comment »

This is a nifty little script which I use for google chrome portability. There is no proper portable chrome app with proper update functionalities.

The procedure:

  • Download the zip file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1049970/Chrome.zip (~70kb)
  • Extract it in your pen drive.
  • Copy any existing Chrome installation from C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settiings\Application Data\Google (Win XP) or C:\Users\sudhansh\AppData\Local\Google to the unzipped chrome folder. Match the folder structure already made in the directory.
  • Thats it!
  • Run chrome.bat whenever you need to use your portable installation/profile.

How does it work:

  • As Google Chrome installs itself in the local app settings directory of Windows, I copied it. The directory also contains a subdir for the user profile with all the settings, extensions etc.
  • The chrome folder contains a chrome.bat file which when run, does either of the following 2:
    • If it finds an already existing chrome installation on a comp it runs it using MY personal profile. Local resources give better performance.
    • If it doesn’t find any installation, it uses my own installation as well as the profile.

TODO: If the existing installation on a comp is updated one, update my installation to that one. Will do that when I boot into windows next time :) .

p7zip (7z) and rar in ubuntu

Posted: April 18, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: linux | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

If you simply install p7zip-full, it fails to unrar rar archive saying “Unsupported Method” and “Sub items Errors: 1″.

To get rid of it, install the p7zip-rar which adds the codec Rar29.so required for the same. Its available in the repos. I don’t know why they have not included it in the full version, probably its non-free.

Google Chrome: Sharing Profiles with a Linux OS

Posted: April 15, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: linux, windows | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Some of you might be wondering how to share a google chrome profile between a windows and a linux operating system. Copying or creating a symbolic link doesn’t seem to work as the extensions go haywire. The reason is the use of “\\” in the profiles created in windows. Use the following command to change the path names in the Preferences file to use a ‘/’ instead of ‘\\’.

sed -i ‘s/\\\\/\//g’ ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferencesas

Happy chroming! Its still the fastest starting browser.

 

Tata Photon – How to obtain Usage details

Posted: April 6, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: linux, windows | Tags: , , | Leave a comment »

There are many ways. But my favorite is to use a bookmark for the official usage site: 
https://www.tatatele.in/prepaidPhoton/postUsage.do?mdn=<your photon phone number>&SOURCE=postpaidMCCI&d-4030679-p=1

This is for postpaid connections, for prepaid, I do not have any clue. If your accounts page shows the usage stats, you can open the frame in a new tab and get that link.

The only drawback is that its not real time. The delay is generally of 3hrs, but sometimes it may go upto 12 hrs, depending on the server updates. For real tme updates, I use:
Windows: Networx.
Linux: vnstat with its php frontend. http://humdi.net/vnstat/ & http://www.sqweek.com/sqweek/index.php?p=1

HTH!

Tata Photon – get rid of the ugly dialer.

Posted: April 6, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: windows | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

Thankfully, and obviously the installation is too simple. Its windows we are talkng about!

But then again, its windows we are talking about. So, there is no option of autoconnect. And I hate the default dialer provided by Photon. It sucks. So a few tweaks, that are kind of a must, at least for me:

My Device: Tata Photon Olive VME101

1. Disable the dialer’s autorun on windows startup through its settings.

2. Use rasdial to connect, via batch files. rasdial is the dialup utility for windows.

Make the following two batch files and use them via a desktop shortcut or anything:

connect.bat —> rasdial “TATA HSIA” internet internet

The parameters are: connection name, username, password. You may also provide phone number via: /phone:#777, but its not needed.

disconnect.bat —>  rasdial /disconnect

3. Still a restart causes the drivers to unload and the device is detected as a storage device instead of a usb modem. Hence, to fix that, I wrote another batch file whose shortcut lies in the user startup folder so that it gets executed on every windows login.
autostart.bat
start /d C:\Windows\system32 devcon disable *DEV_001C*
 start /d “C:\Program Files\TATA Photon+\Olive\VME101\Drivers” OliveDcService.exe
  start helps us in executing commands simultaneously in different command windows.
The first command is to disbale my wifi on startup. You can use this gude for the same: http://wlanbook.com/disabling-wireless-startup-shutdown/
The second command load the drivers for my Photon device which establish it as a usb modem. For your device, check in your dialer’s installation folder.

That’s it!

Two things:

  • Still its not exactly autorun on plug-in like xubuntu, but its quite close. I plug my device and use executor to connect to internet via a hotkey instead of the batch files. Simple and elegant!
  • Probably copying the driver startup exe (OliveDcService) somewhere else and uninstalling the dialer would also work. But haven;t tried yet. If someone does, do post in the comments.

I am figuring a way out to autorun a command on a non-storage device plug-in. If I find one, will definitely let it out in the open.

Till then, ciao!

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