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I was trying to get a list of MIDI files play in banshee 2.0 in an old computer. The system had Ubuntu 11.04 and banshee was able to play MIDI files except that it was not able to detect the end of each track and continued playing the same track with silence as the only output and infinitely playing the same track. So whenever there was a long silence I had to manually change to the next track. I did that a few times but then decided to write a small script to solve the problem.

In any business, the relationship between clients and the service provider is subjected to the stress of disputes often. Businesses that deliver true value to their clients over a sustained period of time have mechanisms to resolve these disputes. Often they rely on certain thumb rules also. One such thumb rule is the adage 'Customer is the king.' At Zyxware, we believe that it is a thumb rule that can, in contexts of disputes, lead to sub-optimal results for the relationship and the parties involved from the point of view of effectiveness and more importantly fairness.

Google drawing is a tool specifically designed to make image, drawing, editing and sharing easy. With this tool, you will be able to create drawings or upload drawings and edit them or let other people edit your drawing. You can even chat, comment or share views with multiple people who are editing your drawings. So in short multiple people can at a time work on a single document to make things easy. In the following article I will be giving you some basic introduction into the world of google drawing. How to Create google drawing?

One of our Drupal clients requested us for a feature in a mobile version of their Drupal website in which, a user accessing the mobile version of their website, should be able to automatically initiate a call on clicking the telephone number appearing in the website. If you want to know "How to start a call when a user clicks on a number in a mobile version of a Drupal website, then continue reading.

While working on Drupal Views, we might want to examine the query executed by the View to get its data. Analyzing the query may help us to identify why the view does not produce expected result. Read on to know how to view the SQL query executed by a View.

In Drupal, while viewing a content type it will display the content type view with a comment form. If we want to remove the comment form from the view node page we can disable/unset it using hook_node_view function. But what we have to do if we want the comment form in a separate tab. There is a module called Talk. This module removes the comment form from a node view page and display it on a separate tab.

In a recent project, I had to make use of pagers in two views. As per the requirement, I had to display different numbers of contents per page for both views. For the first view, I had to display 2 items per page and for the second one(search-results view) 10 per page.The problem I faced was, Eventhough if I had less than 10 search results, the page displayed the pager-links as per the contents of the first view. ie, both the views showed same number of pagers, which was wrong. If you want to know, how I fixed this, please read on.

Recently PayPal changed their policies and creating a sandbox account was a bit confusing for me, when I wanted to test my ubercart site. However, I created one and thought of writing about it in case some one needs it. So, here it goes.