The date() function of PHP is a very flexible function, which generates the current date and/or time. Human beings uses many different formats to represent date/time. Some writes 98, while others prefer 1998. Some writes 06/23/2010 while others prefer 06-23-2010. Some writes time in 12 hours format while other use 24 hours format. The date() function of PHP supports all these types.
date() function returns a date or a time or both. To control what it outputs, and the format it outputs, we can use number of format parameters. continue reading…
I’ve been searching for a good music player for my Ubuntu. Actually I need not only a music player like VLC, but a Jukebox where I can manage playlists and so on. My first choice was Songbird, a popular player, however a syncing plugin I added to it deleted my whole English mp3 collection 
Then I said good bye to Songbird. Then my choice was Banshee, and it worked really good for some months. After a system update, it stopped working. I tried everything, but couldn’t get it back working. 
Are you sharing mp3 audio files through your blog or website? Then it will be cool, if you can let the readers to listen to them in the browser, before download them. There are many solutions for this. You can upload your file to a media sharing site (like 
This week may be special to twitter client seekers for Ubuntu/Linux. A new twitter client was came into the scene and some existing ones got rich with new features. Sometimes ago, personally I was having a big problem of finding a suitable twitter client which satisfies all my needs. But there wasn’t. However I can see that modern clients have many rich features which are worthy to use. 
Facebook has introduced a Username system some months ago. I remember that I grab my username just on the time the feature released. But when I visit facebook , even now, I see many friends of mine are still not having usernames. So I decided to write this post, to help them in having their usernames.
My tech writings in english.
