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Install Airtime (Free radio automation software) in Ubuntu

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:34:04 +0000

Airtime is an open source radio automation software for scheduling and playout.

Airtime lets you take total control of your radio station via the web with intelligent archive management, powerful search, an easy playlist builder, a simple scheduling calendar and rock-solid automated playout.

Features include fades, cues, playlists, programme calendar, Icecast, Shoutcast and Soundcloud integration, DJ and station manager roles, JQuery widgets, Liquidsoap playout, and a record and rebroadcast functionality.

Powerful media archive features ‘watch’ folders to allow stations to magically synchronise files, auto-import files and has multiple directory support.

Airtime is free to download, runs on Ubuntu and Debian, and users can interact with it through any web browser. Airtime now comes with an ‘easy install’ package.

Web site: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/

Features:

Programme Calendar with day, week and month views
User management – block out timeslots, restrict access
Support for cue in/out, fade in/out with sub-second precision
Remote management via the web
Watch folders
Daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly repeat settings
Record live shows and rebroadcast
Download option for easier sharing and editing
Stream to Icecast or SHOUTcast server, via mp3 or Ogg Vorbis
Automatically upload and share shows to SoundCloud
Works with almost any browser
Ubuntu and Debian packages
Easy installation
Drag and Drop playlists
Interoperability with Newscoop
Show-driven access management
Peer to peer sharing for radio station networking
Multi-file upload
Preview tracks and edit metadata in-browser

Install Airtime:

Web version: go to http://airtime-demo.sourcefabric.org/, login with user admin and password admin.

Desktop version: Download and install .deb of airtime-easy-setup. Then, update and install airtime via apt-get:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install airtime

How to Install Minecraft in ubuntu

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:29:34 +0000

This tutorial assumes you’re running on Ubuntu with Unity desktop and ready to go.

First, you need a 3D video driver. Search “additional drivers” in Dash home. In pop-up “Additional Drivers” window, select an appropriate driver and then click on “Activate”. Enter you user password and it starts downloading and installing the driver. You’ll probably have to reboot after that.

Second, install Java. Launch “Ubuntu Software Center”. Search java, then choose to install “OpenJDK6 Java Runtime”(not seven).

Now, go to minecraft.net and download the minecraft.jar file. Open it via archive manager and extract favicon.png under net/minecraft/.

Go back to minecraft.jar, right click to go into its Properties window. In Basic tab, click on icon and change it to favicon.png (the picture file you just extracted). In Permission tab, check “allow executing this file as a program”. In Open With tab, choose “OpenJDK Java6 Runtime” and set to default.

That’s it! Run minecraft.jar, it’ll download what it needs, and go.

Footnote – Simple Note-taking app in the style of elementary

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:25:20 +0000

Footnote is a beautiful, fast, and simple note taking app in the style of elementary. It’s designed for students, this app allows you to take notes efficiently and helps keep them organized.

Install Footnote in Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.04

Do this only if you know what you are doing!

Add this ppa for the dependencies:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemequ/sqlheavy
sudo apt-get update

Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 can get Footnote from in elementary-os daily build ppa, add the ppa by:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily
sudo apt-get update

install footnote:

sudo apt-get install footnote

PPA Installing the latest KDE 4.8 in (K)Ubuntu 11.10

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:40:49 +0000

The latest set of KDE releases has been announced on Jan 25. It includes major updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, as well as improved stability and performance. Read the announcement.

KUbuntu 11.10 user can easily upgrade to KDE 4.8 via ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports. Just execute following commands in a terminal window and reboot.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Ubuntu 11.10 can also install KDE 4.8 using this ppa, but it’s a bit risky. Be sure you know what you are doing before running following commands

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

During the installation, it will ask you choosing display manager, choose KDM if you want to keep KDE. Finally, reboot.

SyncWall – Wallpaper Changer with Synchronization Features

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:01:53 +0000

SyncWall is quite a basic wallpaper changer with a special feature, it is the ability to synchronize wallpaper change between several workstations with a basic (and unsecured) client/server protocol. Each workstation must share the same pool of files, there is no FTP or Internet download. Another interesting feature is a simple multi monitor support. Because SyncWall is written with Qt, it runs on Windows and Linux (MacOSX isn’t tested yet).

Features:

Scheduling : you can change wallpaper at startup, by interval or at fixed time
Ability to use/define a « global » hotkey to change wallpaper manually.
Basic multimonitor support in order to share the wallpaper across screens
Ability to add some special effects (emboss, edge, blur, …) to the displayed wallpaper.
Several resizing methods and background filling
Network synchronization of wallpaper change by defining a server and clients. Display parameters are shared across the network (same resizing type on all the desktops)
Supported files :SyncWall uses Qt plugins to load image, so by default it can read basic formats as BMP, PNG, JPG. You can add more formats if needed by using bridge plugins to the FreeImage or the Devil libraries.
For linux platform, the common windows managers are supported (Gnome, Gnome3, KDE3, KDE4, XFCE, …).

Install SyncWall in Ubuntu

Download the code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/syncwall/files/
Extract the package, read and follow the INSTALL.txt.

Finally start SyncWall by running:

syncwall

Hacking: Add Output Device Chooser on Gnome Shell Sound Menu

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:30:24 +0000

If you have more than one sound cards, it’s inconvenient to change sound output device by Volume Menu -> Sound Settings -> Output -> Choose a device for sound output.

Here’s a Gnome Shell extension by TigerSoldier that adds output device chooser on Volume Menu so that you can choose the default output device without launching Sound Settings.

This extension is available in extensions.gnome.org (open it in gnome shell via firefox browser).

Code: https://github.com/tigersoldier/Output-device-chooser-on-volume-menu

POGO- Probably the simplest and fastest Music player for Linux.

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:29:29 +0000

Pogo’s elementary-inspired design uses the screen-space very efficiently. It is especially well-suited for people who organize their music by albums on the harddrive. The main interface components are a directory tree and a playlist that groups albums in an innovative way.
Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, Wavpack, and MPEG-4 AAC. Pogo is a fork of Decibel Audio Player.

Install POGO in Ubuntu:

Pogo stable daily builds ppa provides pacekages for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and higher. To install it run following commands in terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pogo-dev/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pogo

Pogo in launchpad: launchpad.net/pogo

Install WinUSB to Create USB Windows Installer From Ubuntu Linux

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:27:33 +0000

WinUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD.

This package contains two programs:
- WinUSB-gui: a graphical interface which is very easy to use.
- winusb: the command line tool.

Supported images: Windows Vista, Seven+ installer for any language and any version (home, pro…) and Windows PE.

Install WinUSB in Ubuntu:

Using the PPA is recomended since you will receive updates automaticaly from your update manager. In order to do that, you just need to lunch this command :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colingille/freshlight && sudo apt-get update

Then, use this to install WinUSB:

sudo apt-get install winusb

PPA Installing the latest Minitube (Youtube Client) in Ubuntu

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:21:40 +0000

Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream.

Minitube does not require the Flash Player.

Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to create a new TV-like experience.

Install Minitube in Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04:

Minitube is available in Ubuntu’s universe repository by default, but it’s old. The latest version is 1.7.

LffL Minitube ppa contains packages of the latest version of Minitube for Ubuntu 10.04 and higher. To install it, run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/minitube
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install minitube

Install Focus-Effects & Cover-Flow Alt-Tab extensions for Gnome Shell

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:08:34 +0000

1. Coverflow Alt-Tab is available in extensions.gnome.org.

Replacement of Alt-Tab, iterates through windows in a cover-flow manner. It *does* cycle backward while `Shift’ key holded (eg. Alt-Tab cycles forward, Alt-Shift-Tab cycles backward.) If you experienced misbehavior, error, or even crash, please file an issue at google code project page (with “~/.xsession-error” or the log of gnome-shell). Thanks!

To install this extension, in Gnome Shell use Firefox web browser to open extensions.gnome.org and turn the extension on.

FOCUS EFFECTS

2. For now, Focus effects is not available in extensions.gnome.org. We can get it using git.

Open up a terminal window and install git:

sudo apt-get install git git-core

Create a folder for git project:
mkdir git_project && cd git_project

Now, executes following 4 commands:

git clone https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-focus-effects-extension.git
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
cp -r gnome-shell-focus-effects-extension/focus-effects@paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
cp gnome-shell-focus-effects-extension/example.ffxrc.json ~/.ffxrc.json

Finally, refresh your Gnome Shell (or logout and back in). Enable Focus effects in Advance Settings -> Shell Extensions (sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool)

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