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Are you a FaceBook Fan? Then you have one more good news. Facebook Music service will make you rock.  Check their band pages launched on 28th Feb.

Facebook’s new service provides space for artists and their bands to share, advertise their music, videos, pictures, and sell them etc. You will be allowed listen to their music and watch some of their videos online and much much more… You too can start posting your own audio now.

Its one of its first kind. A Social Networking website can do lot more business in future and here is an example.  iTune and MySpace will be worrying as a new challenge is “on”

Read more stories on this here :

Wired Blog

Facebook Music Rumor is now history: CoEdMagazine history page

ImageMagick is a tool which I have been recommending, installing for many all these years. I even configured many websites to use ImageMagick in their gallery’s for that for years now. But I really didn’t use it much for my own work.

My Canon digital camera which I recently purchased, did allow me to explore many more things this weekend on my laptop. Tools which I have been using for years are really looking brand new after adding a new hardware. (I just told you about Picasa in my previous post).

Its a pain to resize each and every image which I click on a digital camera. I did shoot around 250 pic’s today and I thought I’m really wasting time squeezing these pic’s using “Gimp” Image editing tool. Suddenly I realized that I do know about a software which will allow me to complete this task in seconds.

To be frank, I might have recommended this tool to thousands of people by now but I did realize its power only when I used it for my own photos on console. All the pictures were too heavy to be uploaded onto my online gallery. They were >1M in size. Running the following command in my Image folder did reduce image size to 100k - 200k and resized them all to 1024 x 768 pixels.

# mogrify -resize 1024x768 *

mogrify and convert these two tools provided by ImageMagick are really wonderful.

More Examples of ImageMagick Usage

Try using it for yourself and save huge amount of disk space.

Oh O, yes you can use it even on Windows. Find more info here.

Hey, have you ever tried installing google applications on Ubuntu/Debian?

Yes, Picasa and Google Earth. We can have it running in Linux. If you haven’t tried installing them here is a simple to-do. Just follow and have fun!

First : Add the Google repository to apt sources list.You can find it here.

/etc/apt/sources.list

Second : Add the following lines to the end of sources.list

# Google testing repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free

Third : Update apt-get repo cache by running this command at console.

# sudo apt-get update

or

# sudo aptitude update

Four : Install picasa or Google Earth

Run aptitude install

For picasa

# sudo aptitude install picasa

For Google Earth

# sudo aptitude install googleearth

You’re done with it, start using Picasa and Earth. You will surely start loving your Ubuntu installation much more.

I was in a hurry to install the new version of “Picasa” on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon as previous version of Picasa didn’t allow me to upload the images to web directory. After adding the apt source to the sources.list, I ran aptitude update on my laptop and was hit by following error.

W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com testing Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A040830F7FAC5991
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

The error itself says what I should be doing to resolve the error. I found that the solution mentioned won’t work unless I resolve the previous GPG error. So, I was left with no other option other than fetching the GPG key and importing that to my system.

Here is the solution:
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