So you went ahead and purchased that System 76 laptop or you decided to finally install Linux on your laptop. You now have a Linux based laptop with a webcam. But how do you take advantage of this hardware? You want to be able to use that web cam to upload photos to facebook (or [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 5th, 2009
- Comments: 8
Songbird in Linux
If you remember my last media entry, The best Linux media players, you’ll remember I left out one very important entry – Songbird. At the time I really hadn’t given this relatively new entry to the media players a try. But recent “upgrades” to Rhythmbox and Banshee which left either 1) much to be desired [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 3rd, 2009
- Comments: 4
Connecting Linux to a Bubba 2
If you don’t know, the Bubba 2 is a piece of hardware, driven by the Linux operating system, created by ecXito. The Bubba 2 can stream media, serve files, share printers, and more. How? The Bubba 2 uses Samba to share out services and files. Because it uses Samba, connecting to the Bubba 2 is [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Apr 22nd, 2009
- Comments: 5
Tune into streaming servers with Streamtuner
Streamtuner is one of those Linux applications that would most likely go unnoticed without mention. That is a shame considering how easy it makes finding and tuning into various music streams without having to touch the command or even google your favorite types of music.
With Streamtuner you will find plenty of music genres at your [...]
Send Videos to Your Mobile Phone with Vuclip
Almost everyone has a mobile phone today and phones themselves have gone beyond just devices to use to talk to people. Today’s phones come ready with a whole bunch of bells and whistles for their owners to play with. One of these includes support for video.
One of the best resources for an owner of a [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Apr 18th, 2009
- Comments: 20
The best Linux media players
Recently I have had a lot of people asking how to play various media files in Linux. Since most users are migrating over from either Mac or Windows, they are either used to one single application handling their media files or at least knowing exactly what apps handle each media type. When they migrate over [...]
WinLAME 2009 Beta Released
If you are looking for an easy to use music encoder you might want to give the latest version of winLame a try. Beta 1 of the 2009 release has just been made available on the official homepage of the project adding several improvements to previous versions of the lame frontend for the Windows operating [...]
