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If you use Windows Media Center Edition (not a situation I hope will continue as I want to switch away from Windows back to Linux on my media centre computer), have a look at MCE Tunes. It synchronises your iTunes library with MCE, insulating you from MCE’s annoying inability to read tags in from iTunes ripped music. Unfortunately it still can’t provide a better navigation structure for MCE, which means that once you’ve chosen a genre you can’t browse by artist - you just get a list of all the albums in that genre.

I’ve been working on a web site for the last couple of weeks for a book that will shortly be published by IVP called Pierced for our transgressions. One of the authors is a friend of mine called Andrew Sach, and it’s on the subject of penal substitution.

I dug up my ancient Toshiba Portege 3480CT laptop, and installed Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 on it by connecting the hard to my desktop PC (as the laptop doesn’t have a CD or DVD drive). Then I found that the wireless card I had, a Cisco Aironet 350, doesn’t support WPA. After trying and failing to get a Belkin card to work at all, I tried the Linksys WPC54GS-UK. With some help from the instructions on the Ubuntu wiki, which I’ve summarised in a new wiki page, the card works perfectly and I now have web access all around the house instead of having to go and sit in the study.

Have a look at FAlbum if you use Wordpress and Flickr.

If you are using Skype on Linux and want to use your USB webcam’s microphone with the soundcard speakers, you need to get this program and compile and install it. It’s a bit annoying, but until Skype supports GStreamer it’ll have to do.