foobar2000 - Get the high quality audio output

Recently I came across a free music player with the name foobar2000. I was amazed with the quality of the audio output. It definitely out performs all the popular audio players for Windows and Linux. foobar2000 is developed by a former WinAmp developer. The default user interface is very minimal. But can be highly configured and there are lots of cool plugins available for foobar2000 too. With those plugins and spending some time configuring, you can get a cool player to suit your needs with high quality audio. Definitely worth trying it. This screenshot shows how my foobar2000 looks like. I have used components like Columns UI, Lyric Show Panel (I really love this component.), UIE Album Art Panel, UIE Quick Search. Their is an audioscrobler plugin for foobar2000 and Last.fm Player for Windows also supports foobar2000. You can find out more components and help form this wiki. And if you are a Last.fm user don't forget to join Last.fm Foobar200o User Group. ;-) Only drawback is it is not an open source software.

My New Notebook

At last I managed to get a notebook from USA. My uncle in Canada brought 2 Lenovo 3000 N100 Laptops and send one to me. The laptop is having Intel CORE 2 Duo 1.6 GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 128 Shared VGA Memory, 120 SATA HDD, Blue Tooth, WiFi, Finger Print Reader etc.
It is under US$ 890.00 and Targus Backpack cost about US$20.00
I got the laptop yesterday. And I'm pretty impressed with the performance, it clearly out performances my Desktop which is having a Intel Pentium 4 (HT) 3 GHz processor and 1 GB RAM. Battery life is about 2+ H but I have the option to get a additional battery with more cells.
I won't be installing Linux on this machine since most of the course work at SLIIT normaly based on Windows, but I have read some positive reviews from the people who have installed Linux N100s.
I spend time installing some software these days some of them were OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Visual Studio Express etc.
BTW It is difficult to get used to the touch pad after using mouse for such a long time.
Many thanks to my uncle and his friend Neil, who brought this laptop to Sri Lanka.