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I just came across a great tool for transcoding videos in Ubuntu. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. They’ve also got Ubuntu installers which make it easy to install this available in a GUI and a commandline version. Using handbrake you can convert your DVDs [...]
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Here is a plugin for Gimp which gives you a “Save for Web” option in GIMP. This plugin gives you the option of preparing your images for the web by optimizing it, adding additional compression, stripping EXIF information from the images to reduce it’s size. You can preview the resultant image before you save your [...]
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Here’s a software you’d need to clear the unwanted files hiding around your Ubuntu Installation. BleachBit clears up files from your trash, tmp folders, application specific temporary files from Firefox, Java, Open Office and more. When I ran this on the system the first time, Bleachbit ended up clearing around 188MB of space, pretty good. [...]
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There is a small utility in Ubuntu called Gnome Blog which allows you to blog directly from your desktop. If you are running firefox on Ubuntu, click on this link to install the package or enter the following command in your terminal sudo apt-get install gnome-blog Once installed, right click on an empty area on [...]
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If you use a lot of windows apps using wine, here’s a script which may help you getting those elusive fonts and libraries to get the apps working in wine. “winetricks is a quick and dirty script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries sometimes needed to run programs in Wine.” To get winetricks [...]
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I just got one from a new lot of Dell Vostro laptops at office, and spent a day setting up and configuring Ubuntu on it. Hardy Heron seems to have improved on most fronts during the fresh install and the only thing which didn’t work out of the box was the WIFI connection. I wonder [...]
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Image by °Florian via Flickr Ubuntu’s latest and greatest version, Hardy Heron was released last night. Just couldn’t access the Ubuntu site just after the release. Started downloading the new release a few minutes back, all the download mirrors are either slow or crawling – have to switch to torrents to download. Get your downloads [...]
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Hardy Heron is just hours from getting released. Congratulations to the Ubuntu team in advance on getting this release out. Can’t wait to get a hold of this release. For those of you who’re planning on upgrading to this new version from your existing 7.10 release, here’s a set of handy instructions from ubuntu-tutorials.com to [...]
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If you’re looking for the easiest way to install the PHP Java Bridge in Ubuntu, follow these simple steps: If you don’t have Java Installed on your machine, enable the multiverse option in your Software Sources and run sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun Download the PHP Java bridge deb [...]
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Here’s a cool article I came across showing you how to configure gedit in Ubuntu to become a IDE for PHP / web developers. Tips in this article include ways to customize your display optimially for PHP editing, plugins for performing tasks like beautifying PHP code, tidy HTML, check PHP syntax and much more. It’s [...]
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