Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development. It is powerd by Mozila and it is goal is to help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music.

Website

http://getsongbird.com/

Ubuntu package available by getdeb.net:

http://www.getdeb.net/app/Songbird

Integrated Services

• mashTape

  Discover Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, Google news (and more) for the currently playing artist.

• Last.fm Scrobbling

  Integrated Last.fm support allows you to scrobble, love, and ban your tracks.

• Concert Tickets

  Discover upcoming shows in your area based on the artists in your library. Event listings powered by Songkick.

• SHOUTcast Radio

  Stream music using the integrated SHOUTcast Radio directory.

• Customize with Add-ons

  Enhance Songbird with community contributed add-ons like MediaFlow or build one of your own.

Features

• Media Importing

  Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes.

• Media Playback

  Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.

• GStreamer

  Songbird now uses GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms.

• Smart Playlists

  Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.

• Web Browser

  Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.

• Cross Platform

  Songbird runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.

• Multi-language Support

  Over 25 completed, community-contributed localizations and growing!

• Automatic Updates

  Always stay up to date using Songbird’s built-in automatic updates.

• Setup Assistant

  Quickly setup Songbird for the first time.

• Custom UI

  Make Songbird your own by choosing from dozens of different skins feathers.

• Library Management

  Browse, organize, sort and search your media.

• Developer Support

  Songbird is getting better everyday thanks to its open platform and growing developer community.

In Beta

• Device Support

  Songbird’s device support is limited. The Device Support wiki has additional details about what’s supported. Apple iPhones, iPod Touch and Microsoft Zune devices are not yet supported.

• Metadata Management

  Songbird supports reading from and writing metadata to many music file formats. We still need to support the ability to fetch additional metadata from popular lookup services.

• Album Artwork

  Display the currently playing track’s album art and write new artwork back to the file. We still need to support album art fetching.

• Subscriptions

  Subscribe to music blogs and download music directly to your library. We’re working on ways to improve this feature.

• Performance & Stability

  Improving the performance and stability of Songbird is an ongoing focus. Each release we set aside dedicated cycles to ensure we’re making progress.

I was fooling around when I decided that I need a GDM that goes with the theme am using on my Ibex so I searched for a tutorial on how to make a GDM and started working…

It is based on a GDM I had for a long time called debian elegant from http://zuhika.fw.hu/,

I also used an Ubuntu sticker from http://deviantdark.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-Stickers-63103968

I hope you like it as I do

I uploaded it to gnome look you can find it at this link

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=94734

This is suggestion of a colmplete pack for theming you Ubuntu to have a smooth and elegant black look and feel:

• GDM: Of course you need an elegant GDM like the one I’ve just created . DOWNLOAD IT and you can install it by going to:

System –> Administration –> Login Window

Go to “Local” tab and press “Add”, Navigate to the place where you downloaded the GDM archive. select it and close. now you have the GDM is installed you can select it from the dialogue and close.

• Icon pack: Human – O2 is a very nice Icon pack with many options, DOWNLOAD IT then extract the archive file you will find a “install.sh” file double click on it and follow the instructions to install it I have chosen the Manilla folders…

• GTK-2 : you will like the moomex theme when you see it, DOWNLOAD IT and install it by going to:

System –> Preferences –> Appearance

Click on install, Navigate to the place where you downloaded the theme archive. add it then the theme will suggest a font accept it, and we’re set…

• Emerald theme: am using a theme called radial, DOWNLOAD IT and install it using Emerald theme manager.
• Wallpaper can be found here.

I like it very much, hope you too will like it

Open Office 3.0 is now out with many new improvements for more about the new features you can visit this link, and also it can be downloaded from this link. but am here now to give a tip on how can enhance the look of your Open Office on Ubuntu, so lets start:

First you need to go synaptic:

System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager

then you need to search for

openoffice.org style

or something like that, now you will find many packages like tango, crystal, galaxy, industrial…

download anyone you like and then open openoffice and go to:

Tools –> Options –> OpenOffice.org –> view

then in the field

icon size and style

you can choose the styles you previously downloaded am using crystal

here are some screen shots for my open office:

Wish all happy Eid and Adha Mobarak

A friend of mine passed this image to me, and I could not believe how descriptive it is .