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A couple days ago I went back to my roots –> Debian with GNOME. I love minimalism and simple desktops, so I decided to turn off any desktop icons. In some distros it is not as easy as you could imagine. There aren’t any switches in preferences. But there is a very easy way to tweak application in GNOME.  Open terminal and type:
gconf-editor
now hit enter.

You should see new window. Now go to apps/nautilus/desktop.

This time I decided to make something smaller. Just the most important messages.

Charging:

On battery:

Geeklet download:

>> systeminfo.glet <<

>> Apple Brushed Metal Multi-color Edition Download <<
Wallpaper pack. Available colors: yellow, orange, pink, red, blue and green.
Resolution: 1400×900

Special thanks for Kano89 [link] who published original black version.

ImageMagic is a great tool allowing to merge images (it is only one of its many features). Simply to do that execute the command (of course on system with ImageMagic installed):

convert /path/to/image(s) /path/to/outputfile

An example

convert * out.pdf

where * means all files in the current directory

I have been using last.fm for years now. It is a great website for music lovers (maybe a little commercial, but still useful), and because of API it has a huge collection of add-ons. Of course as anyone is able to make his own tool/add-on  there are so many of them, that you simply couldn’t check them all.
I decided to pick the best and present them.

#1: Tag/artists clouds.

With them you can generate your customizable tag/artist cloud. This will produce text output that you can adjust and embed in your last.fm profile or website and a nice image version.

Here are mine:

You can get yours at

http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net