Peruvian Radios in Amarok

Estimados KDEeros peruanos y usuarios de Linux en general:

Acabo de publicar un script que agrega algunas radios online de nuestro querido Perú en el excelente reproductor Amarok versión 2.0+. Lo pueden descargar desde aquí

Para instalar el script se van al Menú Tools->Script Manager->Install Script seleccionan el script que descargaron, presionan OK y listo.

Otra forma es en vez de hacer click en “Install script” presionan “Get More Scripts”, y hacen click en “Install” a lado de “Peruvian Radio Stations” y listo. Cierran y vuelven a abrir Amarok y tendrán una pantalla como esta:

Peruvian Radio Stations in Amarok

Hacen click en Peruvian Radio Stations y les aparecerá:

Peruvian Radio Stations in Amarok

He agregado todas las radios que pude encontrar en la web. Disfruten escuchando la música de su preferencia, así como noticias, deportes, etc. Normalmente cuando cambias de una radio a otra, demora de 1 a 5 segundos.

Las siguientes radios fueron testeadas una y otra vez y funcionan correctamente:

Lima:
Callao 1400 KHZ AM
Capital 96.7 FM
Corazon 96.7 FM
CPN Radio 90.5 FM
Doble Nueve 99.1 FM
Felicidad 88.9 FM
La Unión 103.3 FM
Miraflores 96.1 FM
Moda 97.3 FM
Panamericana 101.1 FM
Planeta 107.7 FM
Ritmo Romántica 93.1 FM
RPP 89.7 FM
San Borja 91.1 FM
Secretos al corazón 93.1 FM
Studio92 92.5 FM
Telestereo 88 FM

Arequipa:
La Mega 94.3 FM
Las Vegas 99.3 FM
Melodia 104.3 FM
Panorama 96.5 FM
Super Stereo 105.5 FM
Yaravi 106.3 FM

Tacna:
Power 98.1 FM
Super Stereo 103.5 FM
Uno 93.7 FM

Cusco:
TV Color 98.1 FM
Willkamayu 940 AM

Trujillo:
La Grande 96.1 FM
Libertad Mundo 1160 Kcs AM

Ica:
Sonica 92.1 FM

Este pequeño script está basado en el script de Radio France con ciertas modificaciones. Gracias al desarrollador y a este tutorial que encontré en la web de Kubuntu que me permitió entender mejor como funcionan los scripts en Amarok..

Si desean que una radio sea agregada, por favor, simplemente envíen un mail a ronnycontacto(at)gmail.com indicando la stream url de la radio o simplemente la dirección del sitio web y gustosamente agregaré la radio en la brevedad posible..

Congratulations KDE team for Caizen (KDE 4.3)

kde 4.3 (Caisen) was released today. Please read the announcement, see the improvements, applications, the platform and give this desktop a try and you will see the difference.

Congratulations and thanks to all the KDE team for the hard work..

KDE 4.3

I love KDE and now that I am doing more c++ and QT I hope to be part of the team for 4.4.

Install KDE 4.2 in debian

This is how looked my desktop some minutes after the kde 4.2 installation.

Runner, Leave note, Twitter, RSS, NowPlay, Dictionary, Clock -> Widgets in KDE 4.2Y

You need Debian unstable (Sid) and enable the experimental branches to install kde 4.2 version.Have in mind that this Debian branches come with lots of bugs and sometimes your system doesn’t respond as you like. Well, going to the whole point.

Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main

Enable the experimental branch by adding this to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main

Update your system:

sudo apt-get update

Install the KDE packages from experimental with the command:

sudo aptitude -t experimental install kde4-minimal

kde4-minimal includes:
kdebase-runtime: Essential runtime components
kdebase-workspace: Desktop environment
kdebase: Core applications

If you want a complete installation, run:

sudo aptitude -t experimental install kde4

This command will install all packages of KDE 4.2 and could take some time. But, I recommend you install just the packages you need like: kdepim, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdeplasma-addon, etc. Look at the Debian/KDE website for more information.

¡Enjoy your KDE Desktop!

Here are some screnshots of my desktop when playing with KDE 4.2.

Calendar, Folder view, Picture widgests in Plasma

Blue Curl Picture

Iceweasel

Dolphin

Kickoff Menu, Twitter widget, Folder View

Konsole, RSS, Runner, Dictionary

KDE 4.2 “The answer”

First of all: I always prefer and love KDE for his elegance, customization, easy-usage, great applications and now because is really  interesting for programming. I use KDE in my everyday work: Konqueror (now Dolphin), konsole, k3b, Amarok, kate, Konversation, Kopete and other ones.

When KDE 4.0 was published many people criticize it very hard: A lot of bugs, different look and concept of desktop, different panels, new applications menu, widgets, etc, etc were some features that made most KDE users unhappy. However, KDE developers always said in the announcement page, blogs and mailing lists that KDE 4 is a work in progress and they will be working, coding hard to release new versions of KDE (4.1, 4.2… ) with a lot of improvements.

KDE 4.1 was much better than KDE 4.0(many bugs killed and improvements,more stability, applications,speed), but KDE 4.2, in my opinion, is a version, that give us a stable desktop  with cool, interesting, features not only for users but also for developers. This KDE version was named: “The answer” because it minimize negative, destructive. comments and people who didn’t believe in the KDE community and team. I consider these people don’t know appreciate the innovation and great effort.

Congratulations to the all KDE Team for the hard-work they made. I am really impressed about how can you customize your desktop, add new features and the KDE 4 development way.

In this video you can see the KDE 4 presentation in Google Campus where Aaron Seigo a famous KDE hacker member of the core-team talk about the KDE 4 technology and how KDE innovation can make current desktops obsolete.

Nepomuk, Decibel, Plasma, Oxygen, Solid, Phonon, Akonadi are some parts of KDE 4 that introduce new behaviours and will make a big change in KDE. I am particularly interested in Plasma and Nepomuk for development and deciding in which project participate for this Google Summer of Code. But I need more reading and practicing about how these work. If you  make a Gsoc proposal without researching, reading, practicing and talking to mentors you probably will fail.  In this page, you can see the initial process to start your KDE 4 development environment.

In general KDE 4  has as main goals: Improve the desktop user experience, have better applications and development platform and make our desktop a central place to be more productive. That is my impression and for now on I will continue researching and folowing the KDE development process.

Blogging once again

Wow.  Almost 4 months since my last post, sometimes it’s too hard to update my blog. I’m married, have a beautiful baby, study and work and believe me that is a little bit difficult to manage.

However, I continue exploring and learning new technologies about my passion: Open Source/Free Software.

Here are some things that happened in the last months.

I started learning Python and Django and I have to admit that since the first moment I tried them that I like it very much. On the other hand, I got tired about how slow rails is and the fucking error messages whenever you upgrade some gems and plugins. Conclusion: I switched to Python-Django for web development. Now I am re-writing an application, written in Rails, with Django.

My boss acquired a dedicated server hosting to run a lot of web services for his company use and proposed me to manage it. Now I am maintaining the server and it was fun to learn SSH and Fedora commands (I use Debian). SSH takes part of my everyday freelance work.

Last week, I finished the development of an e-commerce site for an American company called Misti International. I used the Magento e-commerce platform to develop it. Which at the beginning seems beautiful with a lot of cool features, but you need some patience to understand it deeply, because has a complex structure with too many folder and files and it is kind of difficult to customize it. But, I worked hard on this site and my client is really happy about it. I strongly recommend to learn PHP5 and take a look at the Zend Framework to learn more about the Magento code.

I installed KDE 4.2 in my Debian machine. (Here is a quick tutorial ). The only thing I want to say is: THANKS to all the KDE team for give us this great technology that is so well created and designed. But I will talk about KDE in other posts, because I am really interested in developing for KDE.

Google Summer of Code 2009 was announced and I am going to apply this year again.  I already got in contact with a mentor to work in his proposal and received good feedback about it.

That’s it. Well , I forgot to mention that with Maritza and Celeste (wife and daughter) visited many tourist places here in Arequipa and had great moments. I love spend and enjoy time with my 2 girls.

El turno para Mandriva

Y llego la hora de probar otra distro, me instale Mandriva 2007 con KDE en una particion de 10gb de mi disco de 80 (No pienso dejar a mi querido Debian + enlightenment) ya que este semestre tendremos mucho trabajo con mandrivita. Mandriva es una distribucion de Linux, orientada mayormente a usuarios finales, con interfaces graficas instaladas para facilitar las tareas comunes en el computador. Utiliza urpmi, una herramienta de administración de paquetes que se encarga de instalar, eliminar, actualizar y hacer preguntas a los paquetes de software de aplicaciones locales o vía red. Trabaja con los paquetes RPM (RedHat Package Manager). Para mas info, una nota de la wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mandriva.

Aqui una grn guía sobre Mandriva, su instalacion, aplicaciones incluidas en kde, seguridad, redes e internet, samba, nfs, administracion de paquetes y repositorios, personalizacion del sistema de arranque, configuracion de hardware, etc.

“El dolor del presente forma parte de la felicidad del mañana”