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Earcandy in Ubuntu Jaunty
What is Earcandy? EarCandy is a volume manager for PulseAudio that fades applications in and out based on your current activity. Meaning it can do handy things like muting your music playing when you decide to turn on a youtube video. EarCandy can sniff out applications to tell what kind of application they are Some [...]
Create a URL Shortener With Your Domain
If you use URL shortening services like TinyURL, it may be worth your while to setup a domain shortening service on your own domain. This is quiet easily done with a WordPress plugin now. YOURLS is a free PHP script created by Lester Chan and Ozh Richard that allow you to create something similar to [...]
Eytoy as a Webcam on Ubuntu
People say using linux is complicated. That just isn’t true anymore. Back when I first started using Ubuntu there was not much support for using the Eyetoy as a webcam. Now however using the eyetoy as a webcam is a walk in the park! Just open up a terminal window and copy the following into [...]