Moved...

My blog has been moved here - http://sattvik.info/#blog

E-Snips Flaws

Observe the page numbering. Dunno what's the algorithm behind...

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Hope you enjoyed it.. :-) Real snaps.. no manipulation... Check out the links yourself...

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Linux is indeed tough...

I agree that linux is really great, but, doing stuff is a real pain for Windows people like me. As linix is free in every aspects, I wanted to be acquainted with the technologies under linux. Like everyone likes GUI, I wanted to write GUI programs and started learning GTK+.
I had a misconception that everything would be there in the "Synaptic Package Manager" but I was not able to find GTK in that. Anyway, sources are a free download. Downloaded them and their dependencies from their website.
Dependencies! It was the main problem for me. The dependencies had other dependencies, i.e. Nested dependencies. Somehow, managed to find and install then with three magical commands "./configure", "make" and "make install".
Well, these magical words, however, needed some small changes in between.
One of the dependency I'd little problems was the "gLib" (gnome Library). Although it got installed easily, there was an older version installed which caused problems. Thought of removing it from "Synaptic Package Manager", but removing that would cause, literaly, remove everything on the system. As always, google is there to help with lots of information. Thanks to ubuntu forums as well, I somehow managed to install everything.
At last, after about 5 hours, GTK+ is successfully setup on my machine. I'm able to write GTK+ programs using the Anjuta IDE, which is pretty good.
All's well that end's well. I'm enjoying linux!!!

Planet Positions

Planel Positions! This app calculates present 3d-coordinates of all the planets (except pluto). If you know some stuff in DirectX, you could probably use these co-ordinates and generate a 3d Solar System!!!

Download - Binary (or) Source

Downloading songs from E-Snips

E-Snips is a pretty good source for getting the music you need. But, few days back I found that they had removed the download button they had provided. I've figured out how to download the songs, even though download button is not available. Follow these Simple steps...

1. Navigate to the page where you can listen to the song.
2. Open the page's source. (View menu -> source)
3. Search for something like makeWMPlayer("/nsdoc/.....", -1);
4. Copy the stuff within the quotes.
5. Open your Download manager, such as DAP or FDM, click on Add Url.
6. Use the url http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/..... (text that you copied in step 4)

Your song will be downloaded. Give it a try. Comments welcome...