OK… another not so big deal (since when there’re “big deal” posts anyway??) post…

see… I was talking to my brother the other day, about downloader in linux (particularly ubuntu, that I’m using),

then, my brother recommended me to try out jdownloader…

especially, sometimes, I use the firefox flashgot, and sometimes, it failed to resume,

normally I do download clips from youtube, and so on, those with flash player…

so, this one fine day, when I’m so fed up with flashgot,

In the previous post, I wrote about aria2, a command-line downloader. But, still I need a better downloader in graphical user interface. Because I have the problem to download a large file from SourceForge.net. Multi-segmented downloading in SourceForge.net servers always fail, so I need to add more mirrors for multi-segmented download. However, this does not work well with aria2.

So, I tried to find any application from Arch Linux, then I found FatRat. It is from Community repository, not AUR. Once I use it, I liked it. Because I can manage the download easier. Besides that, FatRat can work with FlashGot (Firefox extension).

since I’ve been wondering if there is,

and since I’ve found one (my brother helped me to find one, which I should have done it myself, but I just can’t be bother, cos, I thought, the answer should be very easy to be obtained… ^_^)

I’ve been “complaining” in a way, over reading my subscriptions in google reader vs. ipad’s MobileRSS

the main reason, I prefer the latter over the former, is that, I can just swipe and go next…

that I can write my notes, my thoughts,
in bed…
while accompanying baby… when she’s there playing and I’m sitting here,
when I’m on the move, in the car…
cos I don’t have a data plan,

and I also do not like to blog on the go… ie. I’m the type who’ll rather type, read again, or edit again, make sure everything’s alright (well, not so serious actually…) and then, only publish it…

I’ve been using my android, for how many months? maybe 9 months, maybe more, can’t really remember when I actually purchased my Garmin-Asus A10… (it’s bad that, 2 of them decided to “divorce”… I actually like this phone very much!)

anyway, besides, it’s a little bit (a little bit only, ^_^) slow in terms of typing, as compared to the new android versions, (on almost all the samsung droids) and iOS (of course, they’re just plain FAST! my husband complained about the typing…)

I tried several Linux downloader with GUI, such as gwget, uGet, and wxDownload Fast, but none of them works well to me: download incompleted, cannot resume, and other bugs.

So, I just use cURL and Wget, the two basic command-line downloader in Linux. Yet they are not satisfying enough, because I prefer multi-segmented download. Finally, I tried Axel and aria2. Then I found that, aria2 looks better for the console output.

aria2 does not provide GUI like other download managers. However, we can still resume the download through command-line.

I am not heavily depending on  cloud computing, because uploading and downloading large files are wasting bandwidth and time. So, synchronizing among the USB pendrives or external harddisks is my solution for multiple computers.

I have tried several synchronize software:

• GoodSync was good but not free
• Synkron, cross platform, difficult to read the comparison of the folders
• DirSync Pro, also cross platform. Also difficult to read the comparison of the folders

So, the best of the best which I am using now is FreeFileSync. The features I like are:

I’ve been asking a few of my friends to install “Line”, ya, it’s a funny apps name, whenever I type “Line”, I find it too simple to type…

well, if you’ve used Viber before, then you’ll know what I mean, basically it’s once of those text/voice chat apps that one can install on his/her smartphone, started from iOS, (though it’s more meant for iPhone, but then, I could install it on iPod, or iPad, unlike bloody whatspp, which you really have to have an iPhone to install it!)

Again, Arch Linux package from AUR. This “downgrade”, I like it. Because Arch Linux uses the latest version packages, some bugs might not be fixed. Therefore, upgrading to the latest version sometimes might not work as expected. Such as, the recent version of ibus 1.4.0 does not work well. Therefore, we need to downgrade to the older version.

To downgrade to the older version, we can use the downloaded packages at /var/cache/pacman/pkg/. However, if we have cleaned up the older packages, then we need to use A.R.M (Arch Rollback Machine) which contains older version packages.

Today, I would like to post about the highest vote AUR package for Arch Linux, that is “yaourt”. This is not an application like others, but it is my favourite utility. “pacman” the package manager of Arch Linux only works for the core, extra, and community packages, but not AUR packages.

Meaning that, “yaourt” can solve 3 problems: 1) Easily download the AUR PKGBUILD, then build and install; 2) install the packages for dependencies; 3) update or upgrade the installed AUR packages.