Download imeem song on Linux

Ingredients:

- Firefox

- Video DownloadHelper plugin

- ffmpeg (additional flavor)

Steps:

0. Install firefox + VDH

1. Go to the song's page on Imeem

2. Just play the song as usual (needs package flashplugin-nonfree from synaptic)

3. You will notice the VDH's logo rotating, indicating a media file is detected

4. After the song is finished loading/playing, click on VDH logo, and select a file with such name : long-random-incomprehensible-file-name.flv

4.0. if there are multiple of it, just try your luck one-by-one :P

5. the downloaded flv can be played in VLC / mplayer / totem

Extra-steps:

6. Open a terminal

7. Issue command likewise:

ffmpeg -i long-random-incomprehensible-file-name.flv -ab 128 actual-supplied-name.mp3

8. Enjoy :D

Notes:

- if you noticed, this steps can be applied to windows also :D

- using above command could be tedious, so we can a new item in nautilus-actions-config as such:

[menu item & action]

path: ffmpeg

parameters : -i %M -ab 128 %M.mp3

[conditions]

filenames : *.flv

mimetypes : application/x-flash-video

FIN

OOXML to ODF

.docx | .xlsx | .pptx

Those three extension is for the somewhat new MS Office 2007 (the one with ribbon interface), but lucky me I have yet to receive any email with such attachment :D

Anyway, by default OpenOffice.org 2.x cannot open those files (OO.o 3 will have that capability), so as a workaround, we can use OdfConverter from Novell's SuSE.

NOTE: I'm using Linux Mint 4 (based on Ubuntu Gutsy)

So download one of the rpm package (most probably will be the i386).

Then open the rpm with Archive Manager, and copy out /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter to /usr/bin (might need to sudo)

Then run OdfConverter from a console

$ OdfConverter

AND, I was hit by a surprise : 

OdfConverter: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

a quick look inside /usr/lib yields that I have libtiff.so.4

so just do this :

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

(create a symbolic link to fool OdfConverter that we have libtiff version 3 :D)

So, our OdfConverter will now works..

$ OdfConverter

Error when parsing command line: Input is missing

Usage: OdfConverter.exe /I PathOrFilename [/O PathOrFilename] [/BATCH-ODT] [/BATCH-DOCX] [/V] [/OPEN] [/XSLT Path] [/NOPACKAGING] [/SKIP name] [/REPORT Filename] [/LEVEL Level]

FIN

p/s: why is it OdfConverter.exe? :P

Zakat Fitrah

Cara bayar zakat tanpa perlu bangun dari tilam ...

Bahan-bahan:

1. Handphone

2. Kredit yang mencukupi

3. Kemahiran menaip SMS

Cara2 SMS:

1. fitrah selangor --> 21999

REPLY : bla bla bla A1: RM5.20 ... hantar a1 ke 21999 untuk langkah seterusnya

2. a1 --> 21999

REPLY : Sila hantar nama,IC,bilangan orang bla bla bla

3. nama_aku, no_ic_aku,1 --> 21999

REPLY : Inilah wang bg menggantikan beras fitrah yg wajib keatas diri/tanggungan/wakil saya sebanyak rm5.20 pd tahun ini krn Allah Ta.ala. Sahkan dgn hantar YA/TIDAK ...

4. ya--> 21999

REPLY : T/Kasih. Bayaran diterima. Utk resit rasmi LZS, layari mfitrah.celcom.net.my/selangor sebelum 31 Oktober 2008. No. resit 0000528-1

comment aku: OK la, memandangkan aku takyah nak g mana2 :lol: