Safari on Windows

After the release of a beta version during June 2007, Safari, the fetich Apple Mac OS web browser is now available for Windows XP as well as Vista.I am still discovering its features, which seem not to be very different from Mozilla Firefox.Download is available by Apple website. 

Sopcast on Linux

Today, I wanted to see the match Etoile. - Al Hilal for the CAF Champions League (I’m tarajjist) but the only way to pass through P2P TV Sopcast, and I am … under Linux.

Installing Sopcast on Fedora Core 6

No fear, sopcast exists also for linux with lighter version than the one available for Windows. The steps are simply :

1. Downloading the libstdcpp5.tgz which contains the needed librairies to run. We can find it on this link.
2. Untar and copy the files libstd* into /usr/lib directory (you must be root or use sudo)
3. Download in-line command program sp-sc-auth from here
4. Untar the package

That’s it. You can for example now use sopcast with command-line this way (supposing you have mplayer installed)

$ ./sp-sc-auth sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/17915 3908 8908 >/dev/null &
$ mplayer http://localhost:8908/tv.asf

You have to know the number of the channel you want to watch and to change the address according to sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/xxxx, where xxxx is the channel number.

Enjoying watching

Gift for Ramadhan : Linux’s Kprayertime and Minbar

For all my friends who are working on Linux, there is an equivalent to well known Windows compatible Athan Program that can be download here at the Islamic Finder site.

In reality, there had been many tries to create free and open softwares for Linux Operating Systems : some of them are Kprayertime and Minbar. They are still in evolution but I have tried the first mentionned and I am quite satisfied with. These program have also special installation package for debian.

In order to install one of them, you may need first to download the ITL library : it is a the Islamic Tool and Libraries packages’ set described by the arabian Linux project Arabayes as a plethora of useful Islamic tools and applications as well as a comprehensive feature-full Islam-centric library. The ITL project currently includes Hijri date, Muslim prayer times, and Qibla.

I succeeded in installing both of them but Minbar is not running as expected : the buttons are not responding when clicked and the athan is not played when time is up. May be it is a bad manipulation from mypart, but you can try yourself.  For Kprayertime, it is an applet that can be added to the KDE Panel this way :

• right-click on the KDE Panel
• select Add applet to Panel
• Look for Kprayertime

Reaching this step you have just to configure your location and the calculation Method that is used by your country or your region.

Snapshot from my DKE Desktop

Warning : These tools can be unaccurate as they are still in evolution and development. Be sure to have the right times in a mosque.