How to Make a Custom Winamp Portable, its Nice and Easy!!

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Everyone should be knowing Winamp, he he he :p. Winamp is my favorite Windows music player, it fast, useful, user friendly and it has a million nice plug-ins. The simple purpose of this tutorial is make my (may your too:p) favorite music player portable, it can bought anytime, anywhere without installation.

But how if we want this Winamp portable come with plugins and a little setting modified??

First, prepare the stuff that we need in this tutorial:

Latest Winamp, yeahh

DFX 8 Plugin for sound FX improvement.

Easy Chords, easy guitar chords generator for musician :p

Now Playing Plugin for Yahoo Messenger, customize your YM status with your Music Fav :p

NB: plugins may reduce or more, depend on your needs. (Built way is same)

And a last one is the “Tools” to make a portable application, we can use Thinstall Virtualization Suite or VMWare-Thinapp. I use a VMWare-Thinapp here, because it’s newer.

The steps:

Download and Install VMWare-Thinapp, (it’s not free, so don’t as a license key to me :p)

Launch VMWare-Thinapp.

Just do everything like in the screenshots:

Press Next and select Advanced Settings

Advanced scan configuration, just select drive c:, so the other changes to the other drive will not scanned.

Press Next and Minimize the VMWare-Thinapp, and do the all “Install”

The “Installation”:

First install Winamp, you may choose custom installation, remember that we’ll make a custom Winamp portable, so customize as many as you can if you want :p

Don’t choose to make some shortcut, filetype registration, etc, because it unneeded.

Install the plug-ins:

DFX 8 for Winamp,

I used my own DFX installer, forget it. . Just install to your Winamp directory.

Easy Chords,

YM 9/8/7 Now Playing,

Then, Launch Winamp and make some tweak and customizing, there are no screenshots, just tweak as your need.

Back to our VMWare-Thinapp, press Next.

Choose winamp.exe as your Primary data container and change the Inventory Name

Customize your “portable settings”, Change your SandBox location as you want.

I recommend, just use Merge isolation mode here

Press Next. Browse your “Source” destination

Press Build Now if you’re ready to build an executable but if need some edit, press Browse Project and customizing (again ). Then press Finish.

Congratulation, you’re done!!! Now we’ve a Custom Winamp Portable with built-in plug-ins, YEAHH . . :p

Just browse $PROJECTDIR\bin\ and you’ll found your executables. Open it for testing

Thanks for visit my newbie blog, question and comment are welcome….

How to Make Your Own Windows XP Lite CD Installer with nLite

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This tutorial will make a modified windows XP CD installer.

• Fast, install time can faster, just approx 10 minutes and system ready

• Automatic, everything can run automatically, no annoying a CD-key or other dialog again, just sit and see your installer works.

• Lite, now Windows XP CD installer can just 185 MB (with some tweak in customizing)!!

• Custom, everything can customized (SP, hot-fix, driver, some tweak, etc)

• I just warn to read carefully descriptions of every features, because we don’t want the installer goes wrong :p

A little review about nLite program:

1. nLite allows you to customize your installation of Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows 2003. You can integrate service packs and hot fixes from Microsoft directly into your windows distribution files without having to re-download and install them every time you need to re-install windows.

2. There is also the option to remove unwanted components from within windows. Many applications are automatically included every time windows is installed. Not every person needs or even wants all of these applications which Microsoft considers to be necessary. By removing these unwanted components you can free up space within your setup and ultimately save space on your hard drive after installation.

3. nLite also provides a way to customize your installation by allowing numerous tweaks to the way windows looks and operates after it has been installed. You can even bypass Microsoft’s bulky unattended setup instructions and do it the easy way. The nLite way! . . .

(From nLite’s home page)

The tutorial:

We’ll download and install a program named nLite, go to download home

and download a latest nLite *.exe installer.

Before you can install nLite, you have to .NET Framework 2.0 installed on your windows system, download here.

First we have to copy an installation directory from your original XP CD (no matter XP type, 32 bit, 64 bit, Starter, Home or Professional Edition, SP 1 or SP2 or SP3). Just copy all file and folder in CD to your drive, for example D:/customxp, don’t forget a remaining space, because we’ll start everything from here.

Now launch your nLite via your shortcut. Select Next.

Browse your Windows installation copied before. I use F:\customxp (disk space problem :p), Select OK and nLite’ll scanning your original XP properties.

I use Windows XP Professional (32 bit) with Service Pack Edition

Next, skip the Presets dialog, because we don’t have a saved preset before

Select All Task, so we can customize it well. Press Next

I’ve Service Pack 3 installer to be integrated in. Just browse where the SP3 installer, it will splitstreamed and integrated well. When finish press OK and Next.

Do the same, for Hotfixes, Add-ons and Update Packs and Driver dialog. Press Next

Choose your compability belong to your need. Optional you might choose preset > load > lite or you just customize a components, what will be added or no. Read carefully a short description at right, so you can customize safely. Press Next

Now is unattended session, here is the list of setting that we have to change:

General

Unattended Mode: Fully automated

Product Key

RunOnce, nothing

Users, nothing

Owner and Network ID, fill out Computer Name and Workgroup (or Domain, if you have a network domain), Full Name and Organization.

Regional, select your preferred Language and Regional settings.

Network settings, you may skip for automatic networking.

Desktop Themes, you may Insert local if you want to add all your installed themes on your system. Choose your Default theme.

Automatic Updates, nothing.

Display, depend on your needs. Press Next.

Components, General Tab, nothing. Patches Tab, Enable the Unsigned Themes Support, so your custom theme will be enabled.

Press Next

On the Tweaks session you can tweak everything (include Services) that you want, don’t forget to read description at bottom of dialog. Press Next. Press Yes and you just wait a few minutes.

When the all done, you could burn directly (change Mode to Burn) or you just burn ISO images, press Make ISO button, When ISO have burned. Press Next and Finish . .

Congratulation! Now you have your own custom Windows XP CD Installer “created” by you :p

Thanks, question and comment are welcome.

Simple and Fast How to Install Globalmenu 0.6 on Intrepid

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Want to changes your Ubuntu looks like Mac OSX ones? Yes, we could!! Just install Mac4Lin v1.0 RC, it changes an appearance well. But wait, how about a “menubar” on Mac OSX panel? (We’ll call it Mac Global Menu). Rainwood make it’s possible now (thx for your hard works)!

OK, let’s go to gnome-globalmenu Home Pages and download some stuff. You could download manual a tarball, or just use SVN.

For example if Home’s our current directory:

$ cd ~

$ svn checkout http://gnome2-globalmenu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gnome-globalmenu

$ cd gnome-globalmenu

$ ls # just to check files

If you don’t have SVN installed, just type this following command through the terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install subversion

Don’t forget to change you SVN configuration if you on proxy server:

$ nano ~/.subversion/servers

Just insert the proxy server and autentification user and password like this one:

http-proxy-host = yourproxy
http-proxy-port = yourport
http-proxy-exceptions = yourexceptionproxy
http-proxy-username = user
http-proxy-password = password

After the source downloaded, install these following software dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential flex bison gnome-common libglib2.0-dev gtk-doc-tools autoconf2.13 automake1.9 libgtk2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libwnck-dev libpanel-applet2-dev libgnome-menu-dev

Then download, extract, compile and install vala:

$ cd ~/

$ wget -c http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.5/vala-0.5.1.tar.bz2

$ tar xjvf vala-0.5.1.tar.bz2

$ cd vala-0.5.1/

$./configure

$ make

$ sudo make install

$ sudo ldconfig

Now, let’s back to the globalmenu directory that we’ve downloaded before:

$ cd ~/gnome-globalmenu

$ ./autogen.sh

$ ./configure –prefix=/usr

$ make

$ sudo make install

Do a little “modification” to your gnome:

$ nano ~/.gnomerc

Put the following line in the file, and then save:

export GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gnome

Now you can see Global Menu Panel Applet can be added from Add to panel pop-up menu.

Owh ya, you must relogin :p (logout and login). If you don’t want to logout, just “restart” gnome panel.

$ killall gnome-panel

the final shortcut…

Thanks,