Bringing Life to your fedora

I am a newbie user of linux, particularly fedora. I liked fedora when I first used it. From my linux experience I know that sometimes it can be pretty frustrating. So I am here to share my experience with you guys.

Today I am going to discuss some important tools necessary to bring life to your fedora box.

[ RPM FUSION REPOSITORY - A Must ] 

1. RPM Fusion Repository: We are going to install a lot of software through YUM, which downloads and installs software into your system. The fedora system comes with default repositories. But we need the RPM fusion repository. Follow the lead -

• Go to RPM FUSION and select the RPM Fusion Free (because we will be installing only free softwares :) ) or
• You can do the following -

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

Now you have a "really needed weapon" in your arsenal. RPM fusion has a database of free software which are not included in the fedora repository (default repository). You can install free codes from the RPM fusion database. Now you can install the codes and listen to your favorite mp3 file. :) -- Really the Life Saver!

[ GStreamer - Ultimate OpenSource Multimedia FrameWork] 

We all need to listen to musics or watch movies. But alas!!! in fedora they removed all the decoders which has licensing issue (most of them do). So, fedora left you with some opensource solution i guess (ogg vorbis). Don't worry. fedora uses GStreamer Framework for multimedia purpose. So, you are just one command away from listening to mp3 or watching mkv video or even dvd files :).

Just open your terminal and type these magic words -

yum install gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-7.fc12.i686

After installation just try to open a mp3 file with your rhythm box and listen to your favourite multimedia. Enjoy the Life!

[ Download Manager Solution (FlashGot + Prozilla) ]

Fedora comes with one of the best browser "Firefox". Your tension of which browser to use is gone. But what about the download manager? Well Firefox's built in browser is not good enough. Don't worry - "where there is a problem there's a way also". You can use the ultimate combo of FlashGot and Prozilla or any other good DM. FlashGot is a firefox plugin which enables one to redirect download URL from firefox to another 3rd party download manager.

1. Install the FlashGot Plugin
2. Install the Prozilla DM using Yum

yum install proz

This command will automatically download and install the prozilla into your system.
3. Configure the FlashGot to transfer the download URL to Prozilla
Ahhh. All done. Enjoy the net ...

I am going to add more and more tools to the fedora. For the time being, Keep in touch.

Wordpress Theme Customization Video Tutorial

Many of my friends were asking about Wordpress theme customization. Well I have used WP before, but I never customized theme for it. So, I wonder around the net to find a good WP tutorial site, which can be used to quickly learn the theme customization of the WP.

Today I am going to share two site with you which contains good WP learning material for theme customization.

For those who are eager to learn it very quickly they have to use the video tutorial site. And I found
CSS TRICKS
very helpful for it.

For those who have a low speed internet connection or prefer text based tutorial they can check
THEME SHAPER site. It has step by step tutorial of how to customize a theme for WP.

Hopefully this links will come to your aids.