Not so Old Fashioned Anymore

I’m usually quite an old fashioned guy. Do I use one of those fancy new media players for my music? Nooo, I use the mplayer command line utility, and shell’s auto-completion for searching(so I call it). Do I use Kontact’s fancy todo-plugin? Nah, I have literally a stack of papers for “organizing” my daily work.

However, some days ago, don’t ask me why, I thought “let’s try out all those modern thingies”. And so I did.

Now I use Kontact’s todo plugin, addressbook, and what not. There’s probably some little magician in there too. That works just splendidly, but it doesn’t stop there. It stores all the things remotely in my IMAP account without any pesky server setup. How cool is that? I was convinced one had to find find a groupware solution for remote storage, but apparently all one need is Kontact.

With Amarok, I now have a panty fancy front cover gallery over all my albums. With mega instant search. And bling bling fading when shutting down the program. And all kind of perverse statistics I don’t even want to have. And lyrics to all my Beatles albums(not that I spoils the moment by singing along). A gazzilion radio stations. And automatic update when I move my files around. Wow.

There are many things to do. But for now, the sun dips in the horizon.