[leglug-users] Live Video streaming, and a Sylpheed-claws issue

[naim abu darwish]

List of media plugins for firefox, no Windows media player  for linux.
But there has to be a way round this.
On 6/20/06, naim abu darwish <naim.abu.darwish at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed Sylpheed-claws. version 2.0.0
> http://claws.sylpheed.org
> I was a mozilla-thunderbird user before, but I am really happy with
> sylpheed-claws now, its light and has all the features i need.
> Only one thing, it keeps fetching Email that is already fetched, for
> three email accounts. I have the correct date and timezone set. Any
> idea how i can fix this?
>
> Another issue is streaming media content on many sites, for example
> http://www.lightreading.com/section.asp?section_id=228,229,230,231,232,274,331&section_name=Light+Reading+TV
> It needs a Windows Media Player, but there is no version for linux,
> anyone knows a way around this ? maybe some extension for firefox to
> take care of all media content ?
>
> Any gaim users ? i just installed the festival plug in, anything
> received  in the IM window, is spoken out loud. Text to speech could
> have much better uses, but this is very usefull for me. I dont have to
> change stop what im doing just to check who's talking to me.
> http://festival-gaim.sourceforge.net/
> Greets
> -Naim
>