[orca-list] Radios, Youtube and blogs

[Luciano de Souza <luchyanus gmail com>]

Hi all,

I have been using Orca for a year. I don't know the Orca's age, but it's 
obvious the hard work of developers. From that time to Orca 2.91.92, the 
version I use, the improvements are really wonderful.

Ubuntu has replaced Windows in my daily activities. However, as far as I 
use it, more and more needs come up. Yes, the first step is the usage, 
but the second is sofisticate this usage. In this message, I ask about 
some tasks that I could not do so easily as in Windows:

1. Listening radios
Radios are everywhere in Internet, but it's not easy to find them, to 
connect them and navigate in their websites. In Windows, I had 
Tapinradio. I could find radios for coutries, styles and other tags. 
Only a few commands were needed to listen, record, schedule tasks on 
radios of a large database.
Having arrived at Linux world, I tried Stream Tuner. I was able to 
listen only pre-selected radios. I couldn't find radios by contry and I 
really could'nt do listen anything I wanted.
Was someone more successful than me? Does someone know another friendly 
desktop application for this purpose?

2. Downloading Youtube videos
By means of Youtube, I have been learning more of playing guitar. In 
Windows, I downloaded videos by a desktop tool and convert them to mp3. 
Having saved them in a movable device, I could listen some llessons more 
confortably.
using Linux and Orca, how to download and convert Youtube videos to mp3?

3. Updating blogs
Of course, I can do it by browser interface, but if there is a desktop 
application to do it for Google or Hotmail blogs, it would be certainly 
more confortable.
The navigation in internet with Orca is not so confortable yet. Wehn a 
link is found, a delay occurs; we can't press ctrl+arrows to navigate 
among  blocks of links and, in my computer, even though not so often as 
previously, but Orca is still crashing in web tasks. Desktop 
applications are more confortable than web applications in the sense 
that custom keystrokes are available and desktop is more confortable 
almost by definition.
Therefore, I ask: are there desktop tools to update blogs?


Regards,

Luciano