Re: [orca-list] Radios, Youtube and blogs

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I'll at least try and address item #2 below.  There is a package
called youtube-dl which will do just that; it is a command line tool
that you can run from the shell and you pass the youtube video's
address and it will download the program and create an MP3 of the
file.

For blogging, I have used an emacs mode to help with reading and
writing to most any blog.  I haven't used it for some while now so
forget some of the more important details.  If you are really
interested, let me know privately as this isn't an Orca thing but I
could look into it further and give you details if you want.

On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 10:41:16AM -0300, Luciano de Souza wrote:
> 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
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