Hulu is one of the most popular video sites on the web. You can watch all kinds of different television shows and movies right in your browser. But there’s also another way to watch Hulu and that’s to download the Hulu Desktop application for Linux.
Read more »A Bushel of Free FOSS Resources
On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.
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Debian GNU/Linux Milestones
Debian 5.0, "Lenny" was released on 14 February 2009 after nearly two years of development. It includes more than 25 000 packages including many security enhancements such as SELinux included with all new installs (although it is disabled by default) and PHP's Suhosin system.
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2 More Gnome Themes from Bisigi Now Takes The Total Count to 12, Pure Awesomeness!
Bisigi themes had always been my favorite. Initially they started of with 9 themes and now the full set includes 12 mind blowing themes for Ubuntu gnome. And the most interesting part is that, you can download these themes directly from Synaptic.
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SimplyMEPIS 8.5 beta4 Greets a New Year
Warren Woodford has announced that SimplyMEPIS 8.4.96, the beta4 of MEPIS 8.5, is available from MEPIS and public mirrors.
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How To Make Firefox Look Good in KDE Plasma Desktop (Part II)
In the first blog post in this series, we outlined a few steps to take to start to get Firefox behaving in a more "KDE-like" manner, as well as looking more at home in KDE. While this was successful, there have been changes already even in these two months since that original post that can help us with this mission even further. We will discuss those here.
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Transcoding 50 fps Interlaced AVCHD to 50 fps Progressive x264 with MEncoder..
Have you ever wondered how much quality your HD camera can deliver? This script helps you to find it out if you have a camera that encodes interlaced video. It uses special filters to calculate 50 whole frames out of the half frames, which makes motions seem extremely fluent. You could play the file at half speed slow motion and still have a full 25 frames per second.
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Does Android 2.0 Really Have MS Exchange Support?
Why are many Linux advocates excited about Android 2.0's built-in support for Microsoft Exchange?
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ASTRO - Android file manager
The ASTRO File Manager helps you get the most out of your Android-powered phone. The Android operating system is designed to be very open and flexible, giving its users the chance to do more things on their phone than ever before. ASTRO helps your phone reach its full potential by giving you the tools to manage your phone.
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35 Google open-source projects that you probably don't know
Google is one of the biggest companies supporting OpenSource movement, they released more than 500 open source projects(most of them are samples showing how to use their API). In this article I will try to write about most interesting and free releases from Google, some of them might be abandoned.
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Upgrade your GIMP version to 2.7 in Ubuntu karmic/Jaunty
This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Please realize that this is just a snapshot of the development tree. We are working hard towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release. GIMP 2.7 is in no way a final product. A lot of new features are incomplete and some things may even be completely broken.
Read more »MP3 And FLAC Metadata Information (ID3 Tags) In Nautilus List View
If your music files aren't named properly or simply want to see the MP3 and FLAC metadata information (ID3 tags) in Nautilus List View, you can't by default.
But I found a python script (which also comes as a .deb file) on the Ubuntu Forums called "Nautilus Columns" which adds new columns to Nautilus, so you can view such metadata information.
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Easily Create A Custom Ubuntu Live CD With Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK)
Ubuntu Customization Kit is a GUI tool that helps you customizing official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your needs. You can add any package to the live system, for example language packs, or applications.
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Smoother Compiz Performance In 3 Simple Steps
If you have enabled the "Visual Effects" on Ubuntu, there's a chance you might have noticed some video tearing or rather chalky Compiz performance which makes the experience not so smooth.
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What's your vision of GNOME?
The GNOME Foundation's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone. Accessible regardless of their ability to pay, their physical ability or the language they speak.
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