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Tomahawk 0 8 4 Released Plugin for Tidal On The Way

Tomahawk 0 8 4 Released Plugin for Tidal On The Way A new update to the meta-streaming desktop  music player Tomahawk  has washed ashore, with a bunch of bug fixes firmly in tow. News of the update, the fourth since the first 0.8.x series release last year, also reveals that a new plugin is in the works for  musician-owned streaming service TIDAL. Not that anyone already ponying up the $19.99 subscription fee will be awash in hi-def audio just yet. Tomahawk devs say the  TIDAL plugin  is not yet ready for prime-time use, and is  not  included in the compiled builds of the player for desktop users. It is being made available to those compiling the music player from source, though. Let us know how well it works if you�re a Tidal subscriber and a source assembling ninja. Bug Fixes in Tomahawk 0.8.4 The bulk of Tomahawk 0.8.4 is made up of bug fixes. Always welcome, these help give a boost to performance, improv...
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Take Ownership of Files and Folders in Windows 7 – An Easy Way

Take Ownership of Files and Folders in Windows 7 – An Easy Way If you are a Windows 7 user, then you are most likely be aware of the fact that you need to TAKE OWNERSHIP  of files and folders before you can make any changes to them. This feature was introduced in order to prevent any unauthorized changes from being made to the system files. However it can be little annoying to follow a long list of procedure every time you want to take ownership of a certain file or folder. So to make this job simpler, I have found a nice tool called  Take Ownership Shell Extension  which adds the �Take Ownership� option to the Windows context menu. This makes taking ownership too simple and requires no more than a click. Just run the portable tool kit and click on the �Install� button. This will add the � Take Ownership � option onto the context menu. To take ownership all you need to do is, just right-click on any of the desired file or folder and click the...
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Taking Care of the Troops The State Department Way

Taking Care of the Troops The State Department Way Back in March, I posted a first person account of an FSO in Mexico amidst that countrys shooting war. (see US Mission Mexico: First Person from a Border Post ). I also did a follow-up post, In a War That Must Not Be Named, Leadership and Security On the Line.  This is what I wrote then: I supposed we may think of life in the Service as if it were a scale -- the national strategic and security priorities on one side and on the other side, the acceptable personal risk of the employees.   But not everyone will get to look at that scale. And not everyone will get to make the judgment call.  Employees do not get to vote, diplomatic missions are not democracies. That might as well apply to the mothership of diplomatic missions. Thirty-two years ago, our diplomats were taken hostage in Iran. Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr. who served as an economic and commercial officer in the U.S. embassy in Iran during the hostage cri...
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