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Arista, a Multimedia transcoder for GNOME Desktop

Written on February 25th, 2010 at 01:29 am by shredder12

Today a friend of mine asked me to suggest him some good video converters in Linux. As of now, I am only aware of the King of all, ffmpeg, but when I searched in the repos for some more video convertors I came across Arista Transcoder, a pretty cool application which makes encoding media content for various popular devices really easy for you.

Manage your podcasts using gPodder

Written on January 11th, 2010 at 00:05 am by shredder12

So, the application I have been using a lot recently is gPodder. In simple words, its a podcast aggregator or a podcast manager or even simpler it may be considered as a rss reader which deals with audio and video feeds rather than textual content. In addition to being simple and easy to use, its very flexible. Keep reading and I am sure many of you will replace your podcast client with gPodder .

Gnome2 GlobalMenu

Written on December 22nd, 2009 at 22:19 pm by shredder12

A few weeks ago I came across an idea posted on brainstrom about Mac-style menu bar. Didn't pay much attention to it until yesterday I read a tweet by Mike Basinger, the Ubuntuforums' admin, about his being happy with gnome2 globalmenu. So, I checked it out and its pretty cool, made me think why I didn't write about it earlier.

Proposed Photo managers for Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

Written on December 19th, 2009 at 13:11 pm by shredder12

All of you would know by now that Ubuntu Devels are planning to remove GIMP as a default program. This has led to a lot of discussions among them about the default photo manager for Ubuntu Lucid that will compensate for it. They are not supposed to be as powerful as GIMP but should be able to handle some minimal image manipulations. In this article, we will look into the 3 top competitors F-Spot, Shotwell and Solang.

How to change Grub2 splash images

Written on November 17th, 2009 at 13:03 pm by shredder12

These days I have been experimenting a lot with Grub2, its amazing. It far more flexible, dynamic and powerful than the old grub legacy. You might not know that grub2 was actually developed from scratch, its not a patch for grub legacy and the developers sure did a great job. In this article, I will tell you how to change the grub2-menu look: background, fonts nd a lot more , and the best part is its really easy!! .

Byzanz-record, Record your Desktop Session to a GIF image

Written on February 22nd, 2010 at 21:42 pm by shredder12

Byzanz is a pretty cool command line screencast application which lets you record the Desktop session as a GIF image, Theora video and others. Earlier releases only had the option to save the session as a GIF image but recent releases also allow recording it as a video. Audio recording is supported too.

How to download mms streaming videos in Ubuntu

Written on January 9th, 2010 at 18:11 pm by shredder12

Yesterday, a friend of mine came to me looking for a way to download a mms stream. Forget about the direct download I wasn't even able to stream it on the available players at the moment. But later after some searching I found out that there is an application for Ubuntu called mimms which can directly download the mms stream for you.

Fedora 13 all set for the Rocketry Artwork

Written on December 20th, 2009 at 23:34 pm by chia

By now you would know that the next Fedora release, Fedora 13, will be named "Goddard", after the famous Rocket scientist Robert H Goddard. After deciding on the name, fedora contributors have started working on the designs, themes and other artwork for the next release. There are a few ideas in the air about Rocketry related artwork but they are also looking of other fedora users and enthusiasts to come up with their more innovative stuff.

How to install Amarok 2.2.1 in Ubuntu 9.10

Written on November 24th, 2009 at 00:09 am by shredder12

Amarok is one of the best music players. Last week Amarok 2.2.1 was release just 6 weeks after the release of the first version in 2.2 series. After the release of Amarok 2.0 most of the amarok fans didn't like the new interface, they still praised the old 1.4 but this new release seems to be a lot more promising than its earlier releases. Amarok 2.2.1, code named "weightless" is literally weightless :) , its really light, fast and has a lot more features then the previous versions.

Best of Linux Docks

Written on November 10th, 2009 at 11:17 am by shredder12

Everybody loves docks!! Whether you're a developer, an OS X person, a Windows person or a Linuxer ;), you are just bound to fall in love with them too. Not only do they look great, but also provide a fancy medium for quick and convenient access to favorites. I've been a great fan of docks and I've been following them for a long time! The following is what I'd call the Cream of the 'dock' crop! :)

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