Sean McNamara » howto http://seanmcn.com Student / Programmer / Game Enthusiast Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:13:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Earcandy in Ubuntu Jaunty http://www.seanmcn.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fseanmcn.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fearcandy-in-ubuntu-jaunty%2F&seed_title=Earcandy+in+Ubuntu+Jaunty http://www.seanmcn.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fseanmcn.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fearcandy-in-ubuntu-jaunty%2F&seed_title=Earcandy+in+Ubuntu+Jaunty#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:41:48 +0000 Sean http://seanmcn.com/?p=222 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 Screenshots:
.Ear CandyEar Candy

Video of it in action:

How to install Earcandy on Ubuntu Jaunty
You can do this by using the following command:

sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

Then add the following to the end of the file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/earcandy-devel/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/earcandy-devel/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Then you can install earcandy by using the following command!

sudo apt-get install earcandy
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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 TinyURL.

  • It is easy to install.
  • It has a statistic side that allows you to keep track of all the URLs you are currently using.
  • It also easily allows you to choose between making your service open for all or just for you.
  • It lets you have customizable links instead of random characters.
  • Lastly it has a bookmarklet that allows you to make TinyURLs on the fly!

Download it and try it out! ;)

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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 it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ov51x-jpeg-source module-assistant
module-assistant a-i ov51x-jpeg

And Presto your webcam is working!

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