Elisa (Alpha) is an open source cross-platform Media Center connecting the internet to your all-in-one media player.With Elisa you can watch movies,Browse internet and see pictures with previews in animated slideshows, auto device and network detection, watch videos and pictures from popular Internet services like YouTube, Flicker and many more.

Features :

• Supports all media formats using Gstreamer multimedia framework, including
  H.264, MPEG 2, MPEG4, Quicktime, Windows Media, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Matroska.
  Commercially licensed plugins that work with GStreamer and Elisa are available from Fluendo.
• Autodetection of media on your network includes:
  • Network Drives
  • Rhythmbox
  • iTunes
  • Windows Mediaplayer
  • iPods, cameras
  • USB hard drives
• Flickr integration.
• YouTube integration.
• Shoutcast integration.
• Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop.
• Audio visualization during playback.
• Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop
• Browse music collection by artists or albums covers.

Video DEMO

Elisa can also be controlled by the Nintendo Wii-mote, check out this Video here.

Looking at their list of future features of the next release it looks to be a good application.

Elisa - HomePage|| Download ||Screenshots Version ( 0.3.5 )

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When visitors are referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific, If they don’t find what they want they might leave immediately though your blog might have have what the visitor wants but not correctly directed by the search engine.

Landing Site, is a wordpress plugin that can help solve this problem by showing related posts based the visitors search keywords.

Follow the steps to implement the plugin in you wordpress installation.

Step 1. Download LandingSites plugin from here. [ Direct Download Link ]

Step 2. Upload the plugin and activate the plugin in your WP Blog.

Step 3. Add this code to your single.php file.

Find this code: <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> and

paste this code after the above line.

<?php if (function_exists(’ls_getinfo’)) : ?>
<?php if (ls_getinfo(’isref’)) { ?>
<div class=”landingsites”>
<h2><?php ls_getinfo(’terms’); ?></h2>
<p>You came here from <?php ls_getinfo(referrer); ?> searching for <i><?php ls_getinfo(terms); ?></i>. These posts might be of interest:</p>
<ul>
<?php ls_related(5, 10, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’, ”, ”, false, false); ?>
</ul>

</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Step 4. Add this code to your Style.css file and modify it according to your needs.

.landingsites{
line-height: 15px;
border: 1px #ff9933;
border-style: double;
width: 350px;
margin: 12px 12px 12px 12px;
padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;
}

Just do a search of your blog and test your landing site plugin.

I have implemented the plugin on this blog and the plugin works with WP 2.5.1

Note : for this plugin to retreive related post you need to have Related Post Plugin Installed.
Download the Related Posts Plugin from here.

Did you ever wanted to remove those ads from your Yahoo Messenger, run multiples versions of Yahoo Messenger. Here’s a tool that can enable you to run multiple versions of Yahoo Messenger and also remove those ads from the bottom of the messenger.

A-Patch for Yahoo! Messenger lets you remove the advertisements and open more than one Messenger at a time. It just adds a few registry entries to which disables the ads and enables multi-messenger for Yahoo Messenger!.

It has only been tested with version 8.1.0.421 but it may also work for other 8.x versions of Messenger.

Download A-Patch For Yahoo.

There are always open source multi protocol IM client alternatives like Pidgin, Miranda .

If you look out for wallpapers at Flickr, searching and saving them can be tedious.So here’s a tool called WallpaperFlickr that can get you wallpapers from Flickr based the tags you mention or based on the username.

You can have it rotate the wallpaper at regular intervals, like once a day for example.

You can mention the position of the random wallpaer

Requirements:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed
• Active Internet Connection.

Download WallPaperFlickr from here.

Technorati Tags: Flickr,Freeware

Phreeting allows you to create and send online greeting cards using images from flickr.Just enter your keywords and then drag and drop the image into the rectangle on the top right side, and type your message in the second rectangle.

There are 7 color schemes to customize your greetings.

You have to copy+paste the url generated available below the color scheme and send it to your friend for him to see the greeting or just press send to open your default e-mail-client in your system.

Create your phreetings ( Photo + Greetings ) here.

Technorati Tags: Flickr

I’ve just received a mail from Yahoo!, the mail states that

Yahoo will be launching a new feature called New with Me. This feature will use the URLs on the Services tab of your MyBlogLog profile to aggregate your latest activity on sites such as Twitter, Last.fm, Digg, and YouTube.As a result, your profile page will look different - publicly available updates from the services
you have listed will be merged with your existing information. Your latest Flickr photos, Last.fm tracks, and YouTube videos, will all be in one place. Updates from your contacts on MyBlogLog will be merged
and available as well. Simply put, the New with Me feature will transform your static profile into a dynamic one.

The new MyBlogLog recent visitors widget has already been changed.

The new widget has a new flyout that shows the more info about the visitor like the site he authors. There is one column and a multiple column display option. There are 7 colors to choose from.You can also set the direction of flyout.

You can have your widget from your MyBlogLog profile widget section.

Looks like there are going to be feature changes in MyBlogLog in the coming days, lets see how they pan out.

Technorati Tags: Yahoo,MyBlogLog