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I love the idea of the ogg media standards. I don’t use vorbis, since TiVo doesn’t support it, and we spend a lot of time listening to music over our TiVos. But Theora is different. My Palm T|X can handle Theora (thanks to the wonderfulness that is TCPMP), and that’s the only place I need [...]

Those of us who love amaroK but use Ubuntu Breezy were left out of this month’s release of amaroK Fast Forward. Due to irreconcilable conflicts, amarok 1.4 is not in the official Ubuntu repositories. However, if you are willing to take chances on an unofficial repository, the amaroK Wiki has step-by-step instructions to [...]

In a previous entry, I mentioned that Google had promised to do a WINE port of Picasa to Linux. According to Ubuntu Blog (and just about every other tech news source in the world), Google has finally come through. That’s right, Picasa on Linux! I’ve already downloaded the .deb that Ubuntu Blog links to and [...]

Oh, how I love the mad geniuses (genii?) of Linux.com. Most of their articles are amazing useful, including  this one, a guide to convert any video file to DVD with open source tools:
You’ve just downloaded the new episode of your favorite video podcast, and you’d like to watch it on your big-screen TV. Unfortunately, the [...]

ssh (secure shell) is an extremely useful tool. I won’t say much about it, because odds are if you are reading this blog you know what it is and what it does. One thing I’ve been meaning to do forever is set up my Linux machines to do passwordless authentication, mainly for security. A password [...]

SharpMusique has been around for a while, but I just got around to posting about it. It’s a very light-weight, cross-platform alternate front-end to the iTunes Music Store! It’s surprisingly full-featured:
Features:

Preview songs
Signup for an account
Buy songs and albums
Redownload songs that you bought with SharpMusique
Redeem Pepsi caps
Redeem gift certificates

Of course, this is more useful under Windows, [...]

For the life of me, I cannot remember whether or not I’ve recommended installing antiword here or not. Since Linux.com is currently running an article giving ways to view Word files at the command line, I figured it’s as good as time as any to mention it.
As a Linux user, there are times when [...]

Interesting article on Linux.com regarding IMMS, a digital music manager which theoretically learns what kind of music you like and plays it more often.
Intelligent Multimedia Management System (IMMS) is an attempt to create such a system — an adaptive playlist framework that tracks your listening patterns and dynamically adapts to suit your personal music [...]

It took me absolutely forever, but I finally decided to install xcompmgr and transset on my Ubuntu machine. That’s right: true transparency for windows, drop shadows and much, much more!
I decided to follow a HOWTO instead of trying to do all of this myself. I ended up using a post about transparency and compositing [...]

Okay, that doesn’t exactly work. However, there are step-by-step instructions to install KDE 3.5 in Ubuntu (Breezy Badger). I am installing KDE 3.5 right now, mainly for the upgrades made to Kopete. I’ll report on my failure/success later.