by Jono Bacon | Jul 1, 2007 | Desktop
Music is important to me. I spend all day every day listening to it and much of my free time making it. As such, the choice of media player is pretty important to me. I have tried all sorts – Rhythmbox, XMMS, Songbird, Amarok to name a few. Despite my...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 11, 2007 | Desktop, LUGRadio, LUGRadio Live, Speaking, Ubuntu
Last week I did an interview with the fellas from the [Linux Action Show](https://www.linuxactionshow.com/). We chatted about a bunch of things including [LUGRadio Live 2007](https://www.lugradio.org/live/), Ubuntu, Ubuntu Live, LUGRadio, Jokosher, KDE4, GStreamer and...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 7, 2007 | Desktop
When I work from home I mainly sit on my couch, with two small dogs sat with me. On my laptop is 26GB of music, and I listen to it through the crap speakers on my Thinkpad. But, about four feet away is a Playstation 3 plugged into a beefcake surround system. Hmmm, I...
by Jono Bacon | May 17, 2007 | Community, Desktop, Jokosher, LUGRadio
Lots of Jokosher news to report. Once again, I am going into bullet time to keep this short and sharp: * We are building towards the 0.9 release. If you are running on Feisty you will have all dependencies apart from an updated Gnonlin which you can [download...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 5, 2007 | Desktop
A while back I posted about [Rhythmbox including support for Open Content services](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/?p=925) such Jamendo and Magnatune. For a while now Rhythmbox has included support for [last.fm](https://www.last.fm/) and I have used it to update...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 28, 2007 | Desktop, Usability
Interface design is a complex business. There are a great many schools of thought about how to build an effective interface, and ultimately no-one is 100% correct. Lots of theory, lots of academia, lots of opinion, but little hard evidence about what design constructs...
