Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard broght us a new feature called “Cover Flow”, which allows you to quick preview your files in Finder without opening them one by one. Well, as for Ubuntu 9.04 users, you can now try Gloobus, it takes Mac’s quicklook feature to the linux world.

Gloobus is an extension of Gnome designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. Ever been annoyed by those tiny miniatures of your files that are helpless. Outraged by the fact that there’s no miniature for half of the file formats you’re using. Excruciated by the painful loading time to see if you’re dealing with the right file? Hail to Gloobus, for this’ is the Holy Grail of preview! Designed as an extendable, standards-compliant previewer , so that it plays nice with Gnome and can be easily extended to support any kind of file, Gloobus enables instant previewing of your files, without even having to open them. Hit space, and BANG, here’s the content of your file, displayed as it would if it was opened.

Currently, Gloobus supports TXT , PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, MP3, OGG, MPG, WMV, XCF It has a sleek black interface which will put your files in focus.

TualatriX (author of Ubuntu Tweak) setted up a Gloobus PPA yesterday, which enables you to install Gloobus on your Ubuntu 9.04 desktop quickly and easily. If you’re running Ubuntu 9.04, follow the following instructions:

1) Add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list (sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list)

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/gloobus/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/gloobus/ubuntu jaunty main

2) Add the key (if you have enanabled Ubuntu Tweak Launchpad PPA, skip this step)

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 0624A220

3) Update the packages list

sudo apt-get update

4) Upgrade to the latest patched Nautilus

sudo apt-get upgrade

5) Install Gloobus-Preview

sudo apt-get install gloobus-preview

6) Finally, quit and restart nautilus

nautilus -q
nautilus &

Now, select a file or a folder on your desktop or your file manager, and press Space, a Gloobus-Preview windows will be launched with the quicklook of the folder or file content. Enjoy!

Last night, I installed Gloobus on my desktop, it’s really amazing, Gloobus-Preview windows has a black interface, my gnome theme and blog theme are black too, it looks so cool! I’m listening a MP3, but I don’t need to open it by any music player now… it’s really amazing….

Brizzly is a web-based Twitter client, one of the best one in my point of view. It’s still in private beta, requiring invitation code to sign up, you can submit your email address here and wait to be invited to join in. I got to know this because a Chinese Twitter user Young Yang introduced it on Twitter with a invitation code in the other day. I’ve checked it out over the last week, and have really come to enjoy it.

Brizzly has a very good user interface, brings you the best tweeting experiences. You can publish your tweets (tell others what you’re doing or thinking), read messages which contain “@YourTwitterUsername” (@ messages), read tweets you marked as “Favourites”, and read/write direct messages to other Twitter users. You can also search tweets or people you follow, manage the people you are folloing  in groups. All these features come in one place, and, with multi-twitter account support. It’s quite useful.

Brizzly is not just a Twitter client, but it’s also a photo sharing service based on Twitter: You can upload your own photos to Brizzly severs and publish the photo link along together with any message you enter and share it out on Twitter between your followers. This is a very good service that I prefer, instead of twitpic, but all-in-one.

Another reason why I prefer Brizzly so much is its real-time stream feature, if a new tweet contains a link with videos or images, or you uploaded a photo to Brizzly sever and published it, Brizzly will automactically recogize it’s source link and embed it and displays the images or video together with your tweets you newly published or new messages published  by the people your are following. (as far as I know, I’ve confirmed that brizzly displays photos from YFrog and TwitPic and that it pulls in YouTube videos.)

Brizzly automatically resolves shortened urls. For example, when you post a tweet on brizzly with a long url, brizzly will automatically turns it into a Bit.ly shortened url; On the other hand, if the one you’re following posted a shorted url on Twitter, when Brizzly displays it to you, it will reconvert it to the full long url.

In one word, Brizzly is a very good web-based Twitter worthy for you to have a try. Please try to be invited first

Dear Honorable Visitors,

This is Charles Peng from China. I am male, 24, and was majored in English at college. I have a good command of both listening and speaking, and my writing skills is also acceptable. I have no big difficulties communicating with any people from any English-speaking countries.

I am now working in a transponder keys manufacturing company located in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. To be honest, I have been working here for almost 2 years till now. We are a company mainly manufactures all kinds of transponder keys, key shells/covers, key blanks, remote key shells/covers, we can also supply remote keys, transponders, locksmith tools/lock picks, auto advanced diagnostics (programmers),  key blades, etc of various kinds. We also accept OEM/ODM orders according to your own needs.

Here below are some pictures of our products we manufacture or we can offer and wholesale:

Some of Transponder Keys we manufacture

Some of other Transponder Keys we manufacture and wholesale

We can also manufacture all kinds remote keys/key shells, here’re part of those of our products:

Some of the Remote Key shells we manufacture and wholesale

Other remote key shells we manufacture and supply

We have been speciallized in manufacturing and selling these kinds of transponder keys, key shells/covers, remote key shells for many years. And it has become one of the leading transponder keys and remote key shells manufacturer and supplier in China. Our products sell good in our national market, and now exported to many countries, such as North America, Europe, Turkey, Africa, Middle East, and other countries or regions worldwide. With our high-quality products as well as our sincere services, I am sure you will be highly satisfied.

If you are doing such businesses, or you’re interested in our products, or if you have any inquiries, please kindly download our catalog here http://charlespeng.com/pricelists from my personal website, and don’t hesitate to contact me back for any further information.

Name: Charles Peng
Email&MSN: charles.peng[at]hotmail.com
Mobile: +86 158 576 58616
Skype: pengjiayou

I am always waiting here for your email…. If you want to download full-sized photos above, please visit here http://drop.io/transponder_keys_remote_keys/ or http://file2.ws/transponder . Thank you so much.

This is a song by Nicholas Tse called “So Beautiful when You Smile“, which was uploaded to a Chinese video sharing website Tudou in 2006 by myself, I almost forgot this MTV since today I visited my Tudou hopepage again, I like this song, this is one of the best songs sing by Nicholas.

Having listened this song again and again for lots and lots of times this morning, it reminds me of a girl, whom I like when I was in XFU, I like being together with her, and, I like most her smile, yes, really beautiful.

Time flies, however, I couldn’t be able to see her since July 2006, but her face when she smiles are always in my mind…

Well, I uploaded some great music files to Tudou in 2006 as well, these are Disco Dance Music, I forgot when I downloaded them and how to download them again. Thanks Tudou, they are all there. OK, try to listen these musics and see if you like it either

Linda was my classmate when I was studying in XFU, and we worked in the same city after graduation. I always went to her school on Sundays where she worked in the last months, we went shopping in supermarkets, climbing on the hills around her school, or going to parks in her city… That’s the most happiest time for me working in this city during the last years.

For quite a long time, Linda was my best female friend, yes, only her whom could accompany me. I was a stranger of the city, and I was always busy on working in my company, almost sitting everyday at front of my office computers except on Sundays. Linda has plenty of time, and we could gather together.

Eveything had changed since last month, because he went back home to Shaanxi. Her boyfriend came here and took her home. On the previous day when she left, she came to my company and saw me, she told me she didn’t want working outside any longer for so long a distance. She already planned to do something to make a living with her boyfriend.

They will be probably get married this year or so, that’s great, but I will be lonely again…

Some fans of my blog took to the streets in San Francisco, and spelt out “I ♡ CHARLES” with Google Latitude. Thanks them, please click here for their video: http://services.google.com/latitudevideo/view.html#n0BGZQKDR5m0H-GDZQS5z0BGZQKDR5s0BgZqkdr-Odmf5s0BgZqkdr-Odmf

Frankly speaking, my blog is writen in English, so most of my blog visitors come from the United States, and Europe (especially United Kingdom), and some other English-speaking countries (Except China).

According to another of blog statistics, it also says most of my blog fans come from the North America. That’s why they gathered together in San Francisco, and spelt out their feeling with their mobiles.

Oh, this video is only for fun, you can make your own here http://services.google.com/latitudevideo/ , thanks Google Latitute.

Give Ubuntu Jaunty An Apple Flavour A lot of people like to dress up their Linux (Gnome) computer with a Mac OS X interface. One way that I learned is to install Mac4Lin theme, I tried this before, but I don’t like Mac4Lin interface. Well, this article gives Gnome a fresh new look, and, it’s similar to Mac.

Schedule & Automate Tasks In Linux With Gnome Schedule I know a tool which called crontab, which can execute commands or scripts automatically at a specified time/date, so that you are allowed to do some things repeatedly on your computer and automactically, to use crontab, you must learn some Linux commands, because crontab is a command line based program. I like doing some basic job in terminal, but I hate commands, because I know only a little.

Well, if you don’t like Terminal either, you can try Gnome Schedule. This is a graphical equivalent of the crontab, which you can use it very easily. Here is a howto which you can learn from it.

Last month, a girl, who was my class mate when we studied at XFU, said she got married. It was a great blow to me when I heard this news.

We have been graduated from university for almost 3 years, many of our schoolmate have been married, and most of them have had a child, but, I’m still single, what’s worse, I never had a grilfriend. I’ve been 24 years old now, I want to get married too, it’s time to look for a girlfriend, perfectly a nice girl.

Since my Flickr account went Pro, I was able to upload as many pictures and photos as I took with my camera and shared them with all of my friends. Here are two Flickr clients if you use Linux system, which allows you upload your photos conveniently.

1. jUploadr

jUploadr is a cross platform, cross-site Photo uploader. Currently it runs on Windows Linux and OS X and supports both Flickr and Zooomr. It allows you to set all properties of a photo before you upload it. It also supports batch editing, so you can make short work of uploading a bunch of files. It is Flickr officially recommend photo uploading client for Linux.

Latest version of jUploadr is 1.1.2, and you can downlaod jUploadr-1.1.2-linuxGTK-i386.tar.gz (for Linux i386)  here. jUploadr is a java-based program, no installation required, decompress the downloaded package, and double click the executable  “jUploadr” to run.

2. Postr

Postr is another Flickr uploadr for GNOME desktop, which aims to be simple to use but exposing enough of Flickr to be useful. It isn’t finished yet, but its a very capable uploader already.

To install in Fedora 10 is quite easy too, just type yum install postr in the terminal, it will automactially installed.

Postr has the same fuctoins which jUploadr has, but it doesn’t not support Zooomr, and UI more hardly to use. Which one do you prefer?