Well, tomorrow Ubuntu 10.10 comes out. In preparation, I always like to post up a list of all the programs I am presently using regularly. It’s actually a pretty small list this time:

• Chromium (web browser)
• Hotot (Twitter desktop client)
• Kupfer (kinda like gnome-do…but it’s working more dependably for me)
• tilda (desktop terminal)
• Avant Window Navigator (very solid dock, though I think for the next six months I’m going to use Docky to see how it holds up for an extended period of time)
• Tomboy Notes
• Basket Note Pads
• Guayadeque (music player)
• Xiphos (Bible software)
• PDFmod
• Ubuntu Tweak

That’s all the main ones! I’m planning on posting up a quick installation guide which will include installing these apps, so keep an eye out for that!

Okay, I’m just slightly addicted to music. I started collecting CDs as a young teenager (while I am not old – and am not telling my age here…I’ve spent more of my life collecting music than I have not….), and my present collection weighs in at just over 22 Gb. To make that amount of music a little more understandable: I could listen to my library for a little over two weeks and two days without repeating a single song. While Banshee and Rhythmbox and Exaile and Amarok are great music players, they all get a little slow working with all that music. And slow gets me a little frustrated.

But then I discovered Guayadeque. Wacky name but awesome, awesome little player. It is really light on the resources. And when I’m doing a search for an artist or an album it is freaky, freaky fast. I do highly suggest this player. Unfortunately it doesn’t have iPod support at this time, which means I’m stuck using Banshee for the time being – which isn’t bad, because Banshee is a pretty solid player. But I just love how Guayadeque works. It’s just stinking awesome.

It does do Last.fm scrobbling, which I like to use. And it’s lyric search function is pretty solid, though I’ve been unsuccessful writing those lyrics to the files of the mp3s, for the present time at least.

Anyways, to install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install guayadeque

And that’s it! Enjoy – and let me know what you think!

(originally discovered here)