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Adding Support for Jamendo and Magnatune to Rhythmbox on Linux
Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog Adding support for Jamendo and Magnatune to Rhythmbox on Linux Author : admin I'm using rhythmbox to play music on my Debian Linux. Rhythmbox is a good substitute for both audacious and xmms. XMMS is already very obsolete and it often crashes because of some of it's plugins. On the other hand audacious is sometimes having problems on my notebook working with it's alsa plugin or pulseaudio especially if I play something in youtube. With audacious my songs sometimes got stucked for some weird reason. With rhythmbox I have never experienced this kind of issues. Considering the fact that I'm a GNOME user rhythmbox is even more attractive for me. During about 2 years ago I've heard about the Jamendo - community of free, legal and unlimited music published under the Creative Commons licenses. Just about 10 months ago I've also discovered magnatune which is also a radio which allows free listening online of it's whole online catalogue. That's why it was really interesting for me to have this two nice music streaming services directly into my rhythmbox. I was very happy to discover that already a plugin that embeds the Jamendo and Magnatune Support to the Rhytmbox program. To enable Rhythmbox to support Magnatune and Jamendo type in your root terminal: debian:~# apt-get install gmpc-plugins gmpc-plugins-dbg debian:~# apt-get rhythmbox-plugins It's very likely that the rhythmbox-plugins might be already installed on your Linux, anyways I put the command above just in case if for some reason it's not installed. -
User Interface Design Issues in HCI
IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, VOL.18 No.8, August 2018 153 User Interface Design Issues In HCI Waleed Iftikhar, Muhammad Sheraz Arshad Malik, Shanza Tariq, Maha Anwar, Jawad Ahmad, M. Saad sultan Department of Computing, Riphah International University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Summary Command line is the interface that allows the user to This paper presents an important analysis on a literature review interact with the computer by directly using the commands. which has the findings in design issues from the year 1999 to But there is an issue that the commands cannot be changed, 2018. This study basically discusses about all the issues related they are fixed and computer only understands the exact to design and user interface, and also gives the solutions to make commands. the designs or user interface more attractive and understandable. This study is the guideline to solve the main issues of user Graphical user interface is the interface that allows the interface. user to interact with the system, because this is user There is important to secure the system for modern applications. friendly and easy to use. This includes the graphics, The use of internet is quickly growing from years. Because of pictures and also attractive for all type of users. The this fast travelling lifestyle, where they lets the user to attach with command line is black and white interface. This interface systems from everywhere. When user is ignoring the is also known as WIMPS because it uses windows, icons, functionalities in the system then the system is not secure but, in menus, pointers. -
Free Email Software Download Best Free Email Client 2021
free email software download Best Free Email Client 2021. This article is all about best free email clients and how they can help you be more productive. We also talk about Clean Email, an easy-to-use email cleaner compatible with virtually all major email services. But before we go over the best email clients for 2021, we believe that we should first explain what advantages email clients have over web-based interfaces of various email services. Clean Email. Take control of your mailbox. What Is an Email Client and Why Should I Use One? If you’re like most people, you probably check your email at least once every day. And if you’re someone whose work involves communication with customers, clients, and coworkers, the chances are that you deal with emails all the time. Even though we spend so much time writing, forwarding, and managing emails, we hardly ever pause for a moment and think about how we could improve our emailing experience. We use clunky web interfaces that are not meant for professional use, we accept outdated applications as if alternatives didn’t exist, and we settle for the default email apps on our mobile devices even though app stores are full of excellent third-party email apps. Broadly speaking, an email client is a computer program used to access and manage a user’s email. But when we use the term email client in this article, we only mean those email clients that can be installed on a desktop computer or a mobile device—not web-based email clients that are hosted remotely and are accessible only from a web browser. -
Designing for Increased Autonomy & Human Control
IFIP Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (IVDS) January 29, 2021 Designing for Increased Autonomy & Human Control Ben Shneiderman @benbendc Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction Lab Professor, Department of Computer Science Member, National Academy of Engineering Photo: BK Adams IFIP Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (IVDS) January 29, 2021 Designing for Increased Automation & Human Control Ben Shneiderman @benbendc Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction Lab Professor, Department of Computer Science Member, National Academy of Engineering Photo: BK Adams What is Human-Centered AI? Human-Centered AI Amplify, Augment, Enhance & Empower People Human Responsibility Supertools and Active Appliances Visual Interfaces to Prevent/Reduce Explanations Audit Trails to Analyze Failures & Near Misses Independent Oversight à Reliable, Safe & Trustworthy Supertools Digital Camera Controls Navigation Choices Texting Autocompletion Spelling correction Active Appliances Coffee maker, Rice cooker, Blender Dishwasher, Clothes Washer/Dryer Implanted Cardiac Pacemakers NASA Mars Rovers are Tele-Operated DaVinci Tele-Operated Surgery “Robots don’t perform surgery. Your surgeon performs surgery with da Vinci by using instruments that he or she guides via a console.” https://www.davincisurgery.com/ Bloomberg Terminal A 2-D HCAI Framework Designing the User Interface Balancing automation & human control First Edition: 1986 Designing the User Interface Balancing automation & -
UKUI: a Lightweight Desktop Environment Based on Pluggable
2016 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (AICS 2016) ISBN: 978-1-60595-411-0 UKUI: A Lightweight Desktop Environment Based on Pluggable Framework for Linux Distribution Jie YU1, Lu SI1,*, Jun MA1, Lei LUO1, Xiao-dong LIU1, Ya-ting KUANG2, Huan PENG2, Rui LI1, Jin-zhu KONG2 and Qing-bo WU1 1College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China 2Tianjin KYLIN Information Technology Co., Ltd, Tianjin, China *[email protected] *Corresponding author Keywords: Desktop environment, Ubuntu, User interface. Abstract. Ubuntu is an operating system with Linux kernel based on Debian and distributed as free and open-source software. It uses Unity as its default desktop environment, which results in more difficulties of usage for Microsoft Windows users. In this paper, we present a lightweight desktop environment named UKUI based on UbuntuKylin, the official Chinese version of Ubuntu, for Linux distribution. It is designed as a pluggable framework and provides better user experience during human-computer interaction. In order to evaluate the performance of UKUI, a set of testing bench suits were performed on a personal computer. Overall, the results showed that UKUI has better performance compared with Unity. Introduction Linux is a freely available operating system (OS) originated by Linux Torvalds and further developed by thousands of others. Typically, Linux is packaged in a form known as a Linux distribution for both desktop and server use. Some of the most popular mainstream Linux distributions are Red Hat [1], Ubuntu [2], Arch [3], openSUSY [4], Gentoo [5], etc. There are several desktop environments available for nowadays modern Linux distributions, such as XFCE [6], GNOME [7], KDE [8] and LXDE [9]. -
Linux on the Road
Linux on the Road Linux with Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs, Mobile Phones and Other Portable Devices Werner Heuser <wehe[AT]tuxmobil.org> Linux Mobile Edition Edition Version 3.22 TuxMobil Berlin Copyright © 2000-2011 Werner Heuser 2011-12-12 Revision History Revision 3.22 2011-12-12 Revised by: wh The address of the opensuse-mobile mailing list has been added, a section power management for graphics cards has been added, a short description of Intel's LinuxPowerTop project has been added, all references to Suspend2 have been changed to TuxOnIce, links to OpenSync and Funambol syncronization packages have been added, some notes about SSDs have been added, many URLs have been checked and some minor improvements have been made. Revision 3.21 2005-11-14 Revised by: wh Some more typos have been fixed. Revision 3.20 2005-11-14 Revised by: wh Some typos have been fixed. Revision 3.19 2005-11-14 Revised by: wh A link to keytouch has been added, minor changes have been made. Revision 3.18 2005-10-10 Revised by: wh Some URLs have been updated, spelling has been corrected, minor changes have been made. Revision 3.17.1 2005-09-28 Revised by: sh A technical and a language review have been performed by Sebastian Henschel. Numerous bugs have been fixed and many URLs have been updated. Revision 3.17 2005-08-28 Revised by: wh Some more tools added to external monitor/projector section, link to Zaurus Development with Damn Small Linux added to cross-compile section, some additions about acoustic management for hard disks added, references to X.org added to X11 sections, link to laptop-mode-tools added, some URLs updated, spelling cleaned, minor changes. -
JAM SE User Guide
The Music Player Remote Control © 2006-2008 Winfried Klum V1.3 B E T A Overview JAM SE is a free mobile application for a range of Java enabled mobile phones that allows you to control your music collection from your phone, using Bluetooth. JAM SE requires a Server supporting the Bemused Protocol and a PC with a Bluetooth adapter. Browse or search your music collection on your phone, play most files supported by your music player including MP3s, CDs, etc. Control your music player. Pause, stop, rewind, forward your playlist, add songs to the playlist, use shuffle and repeat and control the volume of your player. Browse and select songs in your playlist, download songs to your phone, customize the look of your application with skins. JAM SE Installation Jam SE Server Installation The JAM SE Server Installer contains Server, Mobile Installer, and the jlGUI Music Player. There is no need to configure the setup. After installation you can deploy JAM SE to your phone using the Mobile Installer. Mobile Installer From the drop down box you can choose your phone manufacturer. If your manufacturer is not listed use the 'Other' option. IMPORTANT: If you have already installed an older version of JAM SE, please make sure that you delete the old version from your phone prior to installation. On the next wizard page you can choose your model. If you choose 'Other' you can choose a GENERIC version of JAM SE by screen size. You can choose between two deployment types. Bluetooth deployment is the easiest way to install JAM SE on your phone. -
The GNOME Desktop Environment
The GNOME desktop environment Miguel de Icaza ([email protected]) Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM Elliot Lee ([email protected]) Federico Mena ([email protected]) Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM Tom Tromey ([email protected]) April 27, 1998 Abstract We present an overview of the free GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME). GNOME is a suite of X11 GUI applications that provides joy to users and hackers alike. It has been designed for extensibility and automation by using CORBA and scripting languages throughout the code. GNOME is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL and the GNU LGPL and has been developed on the Internet by a loosely-coupled team of programmers. 1 Motivation Free operating systems1 are excellent at providing server-class services, and so are often the ideal choice for a server machine. However, the lack of a consistent user interface and of consumer-targeted applications has prevented free operating systems from reaching the vast majority of users — the desktop users. As such, the benefits of free software have only been enjoyed by the technically savvy computer user community. Most users are still locked into proprietary solutions for their desktop environments. By using GNOME, free operating systems will have a complete, user-friendly desktop which will provide users with powerful and easy-to-use graphical applications. Many people have suggested that the cause for the lack of free user-oriented appli- cations is that these do not provide enough excitement to hackers, as opposed to system- level programming. Since most of the GNOME code had to be written by hackers, we kept them happy: the magic recipe here is to design GNOME around an adrenaline response by trying to use exciting models and ideas in the applications. -
Exploring the User Interface Affordances of File Sharing
CHI 2006 Proceedings • Activity: Design Implications April 22-27, 2006 • Montréal, Québec, Canada Share and Share Alike: Exploring the User Interface Affordances of File Sharing Stephen Voida1, W. Keith Edwards1, Mark W. Newman2, Rebecca E. Grinter1, Nicolas Ducheneaut2 1GVU Center, College of Computing 2Palo Alto Research Center Georgia Institute of Technology 3333 Coyote Hill Road 85 5th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30332–0760, USA Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA {svoida, keith, beki}@cc.gatech.edu {mnewman, nicolas}@parc.com ABSTRACT and folders shared with other users on a single computer, With the rapid growth of personal computer networks and often as a default system behavior; files shared with other the Internet, sharing files has become a central activity in computers over an intranet or home network; and files computer use. The ways in which users control the what, shared with other users around the world on web sites and how, and with whom of sharing are dictated by the tools FTP servers. Users also commonly exchange copies of they use for sharing; there are a wide range of sharing documents as email attachments, transfer files during practices, and hence a wide range of tools to support these instant messaging sessions, post digital photos to online practices. In practice, users’ requirements for certain photo album services, and swap music files using peer–to– sharing features may dictate their choice of tool, even peer file sharing applications. though the other affordances available through that tool Despite these numerous venues for and implementations of may not be an ideal match to the desired manner of sharing. -
How-To Gnome-Look Guide
HHOOWW--TTOO Written by David D Lowe GGNNOOMMEE--LLOOOOKK GGUUIIDDEE hen I first joined the harddisk, say, ~/Pictures/Wallpapers. right-clicking on your desktop Ubuntu community, I and selecting the appropriate You may have noticed that gnome- button (you know which one!). Wwas extremely look.org separates wallpapers into impressed with the amount of different categories, according to the customization Ubuntu had to size of the wallpaper in pixels. For Don't let acronyms intimidate offer. People posted impressive the best quality, you want this to you; you don't have to know screenshots, and mentioned the match your screen resolution. If you what the letters stand for to themes they were using. They don't know what your screen know what it is. Basically, GTK is soon led me to gnome-look.org, resolution is, click System > the system GNOME uses to the number one place for GNOME Preferences > Screen Resolution. display things like buttons and visual customization. The However, Ubuntu stretches controls. GNOME is Ubuntu's screenshots there looked just as wallpapers quite nicely if you picked default desktop environment. I impressive, but I was very the wrong size, so you needn't fret will only be dealing with GNOME confused as to what the headings about it. on the sidebar meant, and I had customization here--sorry no idea how to use the files I SVG is a special image format that Kubuntu and Xubuntu folks! downloaded. Hopefully, this guide doesn't use pixels; it uses shapes Gnome-look.org distinguishes will help you learn what I found called vectors, which means you can between two versions of GTK: out the slow way. -
User Interface for Volume Rendering in Virtual Reality Environments
User Interface for Volume Rendering in Virtual Reality Environments Jonathan Klein∗ Dennis Reuling† Jan Grimm‡ Andreas Pfau§ Damien Lefloch¶ Martin Lambersk Andreas Kolb∗∗ Computer Graphics Group University of Siegen ABSTRACT the gradient or the curvature at the voxel location into account and Volume Rendering applications require sophisticated user interac- require even more complex user interfaces. tion for the definition and refinement of transfer functions. Tradi- Since Virtual Environments are especially well suited to explore tional 2D desktop user interface elements have been developed to spatial properties of complex 3D data, bringing Volume Render- solve this task, but such concepts do not map well to the interaction ing applications into such environments is a natural step. However, devices available in Virtual Reality environments. defining new user interfaces suitable both for the Virtual Environ- ment and for the Volume Rendering application is difficult. Pre- In this paper, we propose an intuitive user interface for Volume vious approaches mainly focused on porting traditional 2D point- Rendering specifically designed for Virtual Reality environments. and-click concepts to the Virtual Environment [8, 5, 9]. This tends The proposed interface allows transfer function design and refine- to be unintuitive, to complicate the interaction, and to make only ment based on intuitive two-handed operation of Wand-like con- limited use of available interaction devices. trollers. Additional interaction modes such as navigation and clip In this paper, we propose an intuitive 3D user interface for Vol- plane manipulation are supported as well. ume Rendering based on interaction devices that are suitable for The system is implemented using the Sony PlayStation Move Virtual Reality environments. -
The Top 10 Open Source Music Players Scores of Music Players Are Available in the Open Source World, and Each One Has Something That Is Unique
For U & Me Overview The Top 10 Open Source Music Players Scores of music players are available in the open source world, and each one has something that is unique. Here are the top 10 music players for you to check out. verybody likes to use a music player that is hassle- Amarok free and easy to operate, besides having plenty of Amarok is a part of the KDE project and is the default music Efeatures to enhance the music experience. The open player in Kubuntu. Mark Kretschmann started this project. source community has developed many music players. This The Amarok experience can be enhanced with custom scripts article lists the features of the ten best open source music or by using scripts contributed by other developers. players, which will help you to select the player most Its first release was on June 23, 2003. Amarok has been suited to your musical tastes. The article also helps those developed in C++ using Qt (the toolkit for cross-platform who wish to explore the features and capabilities of open application development). Its tagline, ‘Rediscover your source music players. Music’, is indeed true, considering its long list of features. 98 | FEBRUARY 2014 | OPEN SOURCE FOR YoU | www.LinuxForU.com Overview For U & Me Table 1: Features at a glance iPod sync Track info Smart/ Name/ Fade/ gapless and USB Radio and Remotely Last.fm Playback and lyrics dynamic Feature playback device podcasts controlled integration resume lookup playlist support Amarok Crossfade Both Yes Both Yes Both Yes Yes (Xine), Gapless (Gstreamer) aTunes Fade only