Install Real Player Gold on Ubuntu at 5:52 AM

We try to cover as many music player as possible for Linux. Good part is there is always a good mix of choice from which you can choose the player of your taste. Let’s see how to install, Real Player Gold on Ubuntu. Real player if you know has been around for a long time and is very popular music player in Windows. However, off late it’s also been developed and made available for Linux.

Features of Real Player Gold for Ubuntu

1. Play Windows Media files: RealPlayer for Linux allows you to play more video, including popular Windows Media files, RealMedia files and more.
2. Create Personal Playlists: Easily create, save, edit and manage different playlists for any event or: mood.
3. Enjoy 5.1 Surround Sound: Turn it up and play it loud! Updated multi-channel stereo sound allows you to enjoy 5-channel audio plus a dedicated sub-woofer channel for streaming or playback through either your ALSA or OSS sound system.
4. Control Live Streams: Need to take a break from a live stream? Just click pause. Perfect Play automatically buffers streaming content. So you can pause, rewind and fast-forward through live broadcasts without missing a thing.

Install Real Player Gold on Ubuntu

1. In order to install Real player gold for Ubuntu, you need to download the deb file. Download link is at the end of the post.

2. Double click on the downloaded deb file to install real player gold on Ubuntu.

Links

Download real player gold for Ubuntu

via Linux Hub

Emerillion:Desktop Map Viewer For Ubuntu at 5:49 AM

This post appeared on the OMG! Ubuntu! blog
Emerillon is a map viewer for GNOME that uses OpenStreetMap data (a wiki for maps) to display custom "views" such as transport, cycle routes and terrain as well as the general "street" view.

Given that the application has yet to release a stable version I was incredibly surprised by how stable, usable and, most importantly, helpful it was to use. Even my dinky ol' town in the United Kingdom has data on-board OpenStreetMaps and works flawlessly in Emerillion. Kudos to the developers behind it.

View
The different "views" (as i shall refer to them as) are really helpful and give the user something Google Maps doesn't offer as of yet to desktop users.

Cycle route view

They can be cycled through using the ALT+1,2,3,4 keys making it even easier.

Placemarks 
Another feature of this nifty map viewer are 'placemarks'. These are simply bookmarks for locations. You can add as many as you like, wherever you like and they can easily be accessed via the placemarks menu. (Note: You need to enable the placemarks plugin via preferences to use this features.) 

Netbook Friendly
Emerillon is a perfect application for netbooks, too. not only is it quicker to get to and use than Google Maps, but the "data" it uses isn't as large to download making it feel snappier over all.

Thoughts
First things first, the default set up of Emerillion is lame - there is no working search bar and no easy way for a new user to figure out how to use the application. One must first manually enable four plugins in order to gain a search bar, place-marks, co-ordinates and web links. Going to View - Toolbar helps somewhat and searching via this auto-opens the sidepane so you can sift through results.

An alas, poor Emerillion doesn't seem to have an icon yet!

The Future
Some other cool plugins and features are currently being worked on for Emerillion (yes i am tired of typing that out now). These include: -

• Wikipedia Plugin to display information on area
• Weather plugin - displays current conditions of area in viewer
• Telepathy Integration - allow you to see your friends location or to "share the app" and use it together
• Displaying available free wifi hotspots from
• Local time of location in viewer
• GPS integration
• Personal markers support

Install
If you want to try out Emerillion - bearing in mind that it's not a stable release yet - you can do so by adding the following PPA. Note that it only supports Karmic:-

• https://edge.launchpad.net/~mathieu-tl/+archive/emerillon

The PPA also includes the package "ethos" which is a dependency for Emerillion.

Keep Wallpapers In Sync Between Linux and Windows and Macs at 9:43 PM

There are plenty of wallpaper-changing applications out there, and plenty of them can tap into photo sharing sites like Flickr and Photobucket for access to a plethora of images. Still, not many of them are quite as well-connected as Wally.

Even fewer are cross-platform. Wally, though, is happy to share its background-rotating skills with Windows, Mac, and Linux users alike. It's built using Nokia's Qt4 framework and supports an insane number of image sources: local and remote folders (via FTP), and popular photo sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, and Bing. You can use any combination of sources you choose by adding and removing them on the settings screen.

Customization options are plentiful, from specifying the delay between image changes to tweaking the size of your local image history store. Images from the 'net are pulled in based on the search terms you specify - and yes, you can shut off Bing's adult filter if you want to.

Wally is free and open source, and pre-compiled downloads are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The project is also mirrorerd over at Sourceforge.