In one of my last updates on this blog (Am I really going to sell out and use iTunes?), I pondered switching to iTunes:
So, when you add things up,that means that I have to use iTunes for a lot of the functionality that I want from my iPhone. Which probably means I’ll end [...]
In one of my most recent entries, I wrote about how I was able to get my iPhone 3g syncing in Ubuntu. That works very well, with a couple of issues that are quickly turning into show stoppers. My major issues are:
Playlist support. I am not a random/shuffle guy, nor really an album guy. I [...]
More»I got an iPhone 3g recently, and was really, really bummed out that I was having to fire up iTunes in a virtual machine so I could manage music, playlists and podcasts on it. Since I have my music library set up with a samba share for my wife’s laptop access, I just mounted the [...]
More»I have decided that I really, really like LinuxMint. The latest version, LinuxMint 8 (Helena), is a very slick, very elegant OS. I actually liked it enough that I am now running it on my home desktop, my personal laptop and my work laptop. Color me a green convert. (My only exception is [...]
More»I got a brand-spanking-new 1tb external drive (Western Digital MyBook) for archival, and I decided it would be a good time to redo my partitioning scheme on my current Linux Mint machine. I have two drives in that box, a 160gb (sdb) and 320gb (sda). For some reason, I had sliced and diced them partition-wise: [...]
More»After I upgraded to Intrepid, I was very annoyed to find that sound no longer worked on my system. Turned out that PulseAudio (which I once was a fan of) was the culprit. PulseAudio was taking exclusive control of the sound device, effectively not allowing anything else to play sound. Which was bad in many [...]
More»I was quite happy using the Adobe AIR app twhirl for all of my twitter needs. Almost everything worked, and worked well. I am very impressed at how good a job Adobe has done with AIR, making sure that AIR can run all apps on any supported underlying OS. I fully expect to be using [...]
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