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My house-mate has published his guide to home PCB etching and it can be found at the following link, it works great and pretty cheap too once you have everything setup – http://gareth-griffiths.co.uk/?page_id=31

MP3/Flash/DVD
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Music Applet
sudo apt-get install music-applet
Banshee
sudo apt-get install banshee
Mirage – Banshee Plugin
sudo apt-get install banshee-extension-mirage
Before Mirage can be used you need to make it scan your music so in Banshee Tools->Mirage Playlist Generator->Rescan the Music Collection as shown below

dockbarX
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dockbar-main
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install [...]

What you will need:
The latest WordPress (www.wordpress.org)
000webhost account (www.000webhost.com)
Instructions:

Grab the latest WordPress build from their site.
Login to 000webhost.com.members, go to cpanel and use the File Manager (or any ftp client you prefer).
Upload the wordpressx.x.x.zip to wherever you want your blog (public_html directory if you want it as your main page). Make sure [...]

To install most media codecs check out:
www.dnmouse.org/codecs.html
To enable trackpad/mousepad “tap” on laptops:
synclient TapButton1=1
.RAR file support:
sudo yum -y install unrar
Add drive/partition to mount on start up:
www.dnmouse.org/mountdrive.html
Some useful apps:
su
yum -y install checkgmail
yum -y install nautilus-image-converter
yum -y install songbird


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