I recently got back into using geektool on my mac to spice up the desktop. I decided to go with a completely black background, and use white text to display important information on my desktop. Check out the screenshot below to see it! I’ll be posting the code up on my site soon to extract the information from an RSS feed using PHP.

New version of Viridian released! check it out at http://viridian.daveeddy.com.

I created an introduction to Unix tutorial website for a class I took in development for the web. The information in it should provide a good introduction to Unix for people that have never used it before so check it out!

http://unix.daveeddy.com/

Check out the new website for the RIT Linux Users Group! There are a couple new tutorials posted (most borrowed from this site) and there will be updates for new events coming soon. Click the image to check out the site.

I just posted a new version (1.1) of my Ampache Wordpress module! You can see this plugin in action on the right hand side of the website. I have made a big change; I have fixed the bug where a slow Ampache server meant a slow loading website. I have moved all of the ‘heavy lifting’ from the plugin into an Ajax call, so it happens after the website has completely loaded, and the content fills the widget using the jQuery scroll in animation! You can check out the plugin on my website or by going to the plugins page.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ampachenowplaying/

New version of Viridian released today, you can find it at Viridian’s Homepage.

This version has the following new features:

• Ability to export local playlists to M3U files to be read in by an Ampache Server (thanks: porthose)
• Fixes for crashing related to illegal characters in the XML (thanks: Geoffrey Anderson)
• Support for the newest Ampache Nightly builds (3.6) by correcting the way Viridian requests information from Ampache
• Fixed issues with Viridian when trying to view playlists from a server that didn’t have any playlists
• Default download directory set to ~/Downloads if the folder exists… this should have been there from the beginning
• Added ability to control Viridian with the media keys on your keyboard even when Viridian does not have focus! (thanks: Andrew Barr)

Check out http://viridian.daveeddy.com! I released the new version 1.1, and you can download it straight from that website (in tarball format). My program will also be packaged on Ubuntu with their next release 11.04, you can check out a post that covers Viridian in 11.04, and all of the new changes with Ampache itself at Ampache’s Website. Check it out!

Check out this pic from tonight’s lights concert in Buffalo NY!

Check it out.. I just got these CDs for Ubuntu 10.10! Mike over at Lights and Shapes actually got a whole box so we can give then out at our Linux users group on campus. Right now he only has the Ubuntu and kubuntu CDs, but he should be getting the server ones soon. Check out more information about the RIT Linux Users Group.

Check out my friends blog at adamgary.com! He just set it up and will be posting new content. make sure to check out his story about his very gnu Halloween!