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Ramadhan Mubarak! Time to study now

This is a repost of an article i wrote last year. Might be encouraging for students who are preparing for their exams.

Ramadan Mubarak to everyone. May Allah help us to get the most out of this month 🙂

We should always be doing Allah’s Ibadat (The glorification of God). Moreover, we are commanded not to avoid all sorts of useless activities such as watching useless TV programs, playing games, talking nonsense etc.

Studying in the month of Ramadan is ideal as seeking knowledge whether worldly or religious is a form of Ibadat.

You will have less distractions around you and therefore, you can concentrate more on your studies. You also get the blessings of God while doing this.

The most difficult things in this month is not the hunger that we bear.But it is the fact that we can’t listen to music. LOL 😀

Wassalam

🙂

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Clementine: The Best Music Player for Linux

Almost all music players in Linux are either bloated or ugly and sometimes both. Clementine Music Player is a super hero to me. It’s fast, clean and very powerful. It is based on Amarok (which i didn’t like though).

A pretty OSD appears after each song starts playging anywhere you want on the screen. I’ve set mine at the top-right corner. You can also set the OSD colour to Orange. Both look simply awesome.

On the left panel, you will find 2 tabs tab which are called “Song Info” and “Artist Info”. When you click on Song Info, the lyrics and background information on the song playing is fetched from the Internet such as sites as metrolyrics.com and wikia.com. It’s a really great feature. On the Artist info tabs, some pictures and biography of the artist is displayed.

Another cool feature is the icon in the system tray. When a song starts playing, the icon is fully coloured. As when the song progresses, its gets decolorised according to the position of the song.

However, there are some things i don’t like about the player (it is the case for almost all Linux players i came across). The shuffling is as if static. Take for example Clementine played the following songs in this order when shuffling was on:

C >> B >> D >> A

If i want to re-listen to song B after song A, i have to press the Back Button twice on my keyboard. But when song B finishes, song D and A would play again before a new song (e.g. F) is played. Sometimes i get really addicted to a song which i want to listen again and again. But there is currently no way to enable some sort of ‘Shuffling on the Fly’ method.

If you want to try this music player, click here and enjoy. 🙂

Windows guys/gals can also download this player. 😉

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A Tiny Comparison between Google+ and Facebook

I managed to get into the new social networking site Google+. Some people say it is THE Facebook-Killer. Is it really so? I made a tiny comparison of both sites:

Privacy:-

Google+ definitely has a better privacy options than Facebook. You can post materials which only people of selected groups or circles can see. Therefore your boss or relatives won’t be able to spy on you as they did before. If you are concerned a lot for your privacy, i would recommend you to switch to Google+ now. But still, you should always be careful on any social site and don’t do stupid things which you might regret later.

Friends and Contacts:-

Google+ doesn’t have a thing knows as “Friend Request”. You can add anyone in your circle and the other person would just be notified about it. He or she wouldn’t be obliged to add you to his or her circle. It’s a bit like twitter. I really miss the Facebook friends system. It seemed more natural and exciting.

Universality:-

Facebook seems to be a more universal platform. You can join Facebook with any email account e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail or even your own personalised mail. However, Google+ is for gmail users only (atleast for now).

Stupid Apps and Peoples:-

Google+ fans say that Google+ doesn’t have the Farmville, daily love percentage guys and apps. Therefore it’s cooler. But when Facebook was newly created, it was like this too. Instead of me moving to another social networking site, why not send the farmville guys to Google+ and i enjoy my current location? 😛 j/k

Chat and Video:-

Facebook has recently introduced Video Chat. It has also enabled adding more people to a current chat. Google+ and GMail had these feature long time ago. But most of my friends are on Facebook the majority of time. Therefore, Facebook chat and video FTW!!!

Webmasters:-

Google+ has re-invented the wheel once again. The same coolness at the start which might get bloated later. Webmasters would have to add the Google +1 button and work on Google Friend Connect services just like Facebook Like button and Facebook Connect. The Facebook APIs change very often. It is difficult for webmasters to keep up with the changes. But now, we will have to follow the Google APIs too. Just PITA! 🙁

Conclusion:-

Google+ has lots of potential but i prefer my gud ole Facebook. It is just eye candy except it’s improved privacy. It is also helping Facebook to improve itself as competition increases innovation 😀

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Facebook Introduces Video Call

Facebook recently introduced Video Call Feature. It install very quickly and is very easy to use. All you have to do is to click on the video button and follow the instructions.

Testing the Video Call:

My friend’s webcam was not too gud (VGA) and there was lots of noise in the sound. Lots of lag. Anyways, we managed to have a little conversation despite all these.

This feature is currently NOT available on linux. I had to switch to windows 7 to try it. Hope they make a linux version soon.

Enjoy!