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Banshee: watching and listening at Linux

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Posted by Evandro Myller on December 12, 2008 – 9:14 am
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Some time ago I just found out another media player in my Ubuntu.
I was trying to find something more than the Ubuntu’s default players, and I got surprised with Banshee 0.2. It was really cool. Great tools, great music organization.

Then, after some days enjoying my new prefered music player, I finally had one idea: how about visit the Banshee website?
So I went there and saw that the current Banshee version was already 1.2. Damn, I was outdated. The Hardy Heron’s repository was kinda poor if I’d expect for newer versions of applications like Banshee. Today I use the version 1.4.1 on my Intrepid Ibex.

I downloaded and installed it on my PC and, wow, it wasn’t a music player anymore. It was a media player. Yes, music + video organized in one application.

Some of the things I like much in Banshee are:

Media organization and access

It’s very easy to organize and search for your media files: just sort, type and list.

Banshee Media Organization

Banshee Media Organization

Editing  Media Information

You can select multiple media files then update their meta information.

Banshee's Track Editor

Banshee's Track Editor

Smart Playlists

Banshee can go beyond organization with smart playlists.

Creating a smart playlist

Creating a smart playlist

It has many other features, like CD burning and extraction, media synchronization to media devices and album art automatic search & download.

Wanna see more? Go to banshee-project.org, download the latest version and enjoy!

utm + Sizzle

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Posted by Evandro Myller on December 11, 2008 – 7:15 pm
Filed under JavaScript, Mandoo, Web Development
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The utm JavaScript library now is going to use the John Resig’s Sizzle.

Sizzle is a lightweight, fast and pure-JavaScript element selector that uses CSS3-based queries.

Somedays ago, while I was talking to John (the creator of Sizzle and jQuery), I decided to join the Sizzle project and integrate it with utm, as other JS libraries out there are joining too.

Why? Weren’t you writing a selector engine for utm?

Yes, I was. But both utm and Sizzle are open source and the Sizzle code is really, really great. So what’s the problem in using and contributing with it, like any other good open source software? =]
We’re not here for a competition, I don’t want to prove that utm is better or not. I’m trying to make two projects grow together.

Ok. So why don’t you use jQuery?

jQuery is an awesome library, but utm has a different focus. Its objetive is not just provide Ajax features or effects, but to provide an Web Application platform – this is exactly what I’m working on.

So, if you want, join the project too and let’s make it all better. =D