My family has a couple of those tiny little audio players called the iPod Shuffle. Of course we needed an iTunes replacement and Banshee turned out to have all the features we need.
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UBUNTU LINUX 9.10 was released last Thursday. Codenamed 'Karmic Koala', it has been anticipated for months by the distribution's many fans. Out of curiosity, the INQUIRER installed it and played around with it to assess how it measures up.
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3 recent OpenOffice.org extensions
Although I do most of my professional writing in Bluefish, I usually use OpenOffice.org at least once a day. Consequently, I keep a close eye on the OpenOffice.org Extensions page.
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bringing theora to youtube (the hard way)
Anyway, I decided to try and make it so that I could easily play Youtube videos without having to use Flash. (Flash - in many ways - is the weak link in the chain. In this case it's because I can't fix/hack it, although I'm happy to not have it because my browser is a lot more reliable.)"
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Review: Vector Linux 6 Standard
It's been over two years since Vector Linux 5.8 was released, and a lot can happen in that time. But what specifically is that? And has all that extra time allowed Vector to improve and grow and become a distribution to be reckoned with? Let's find out.
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Ubuntu 9.10 Software Center: For better or worse
One of the new features in Ubuntu 9.10 is the Ubuntu Software Center. In a rather bold move Canonical has migrated away from the standard Add/Remove Software tool and (in the future) plans to drop Synaptic and Gdebi as well. Is this a move just for “moves” sake?
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RealPlayer SP 1.0.2 on Linux with Wine
RealPlayer SP 1.0.2 install on Linux with Wine. RealPlayer has always enabled you to play RealAudio ra and RealMedia ram files. Now, with RealPlayer, you can Download videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click. Build your own video library and playlists. Play all major audio and video formats.
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Ubuntu’s Koala is loveable, but can bite
Auto-rotating space-themed backgrounds! Surely no geek can resist that? You can get them, in the October 2009 release of Ubuntu, nicknamed Karmic Koala, which made its debut last Friday.
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My First Impressions of Google Wave
A few weeks ago I got my invitation to Google Wave. After using it for a while, I can see its potential as a collaboration tool, but it's too early to tell if this tool will change the way we communicate in the enterprise.
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How to turn a Linux distribution LiveCD into a LiveUSB
LiveCDs these days provide the simplest way to test a Linux distribution. With flash drives being relatively cheap these days, booting your favorite Linux distribution for a clean install from a USB seems to be an interesting option.
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MythTV: Turning Linux Into a Digital Video Recorder: The Front End
After reading the first part of this series, you should have a MythTV server up and running. To watch TV or schedule recordings you'll need to setup one or more MythTV front ends
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XBMC Media Center
The distinction that once existed between the computer and TV is long gone. Computers were used for work, TV was used for entertainment. Today, computers are more than just sophisticated typewriters and TVs are more than just 40kg electron cannon.
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K3B – Free CD/DVD burning tool for KDE Linux
K3B is the official CD/DVD authoring tool for Linux KDE desktop. It allows you to create, burn, copy, CD’s and DVD’s. Create audio CD/DVD, Data discs perform disc-to-disc copies, it also includes a DVD ripping function.
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Fix for rhythmbox not playing mp3 in Ubuntu karmic
My Rhythmbox won't play my music anymore after upgrading to 9.10 so here is what i did i hope this helps for some users
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Rapid Photo Downloader: making your life easier
Have you ever had a couple (or more) memory cards full of images that you quickly want to download to your hard drive while making an extra backup copy and rename all files according to a certain pattern?
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