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Install Ubuntu on your iPhone or iPod Touch

Posted on August 18th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications | 6 comments

iphone ix ubuntu– It may sound rather crazy and totally unreal but it is possible to install Ubuntu on iPhone and iPod Touch!
– Really? Wow! Nice! Hmm… Wait a minute. Um.. Pinched Ubuntu on iPhone just for pinging localhost? And what’s the purpose of that staff?
– See below in this post…

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Handle DSLR Camera RAW Files in Ubuntu

Posted on July 16th, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 5 comments

RAW image editorRAW image file is minimally processed data from DSLR camera. Depending on photo camera’s manufacturer RAW files can be named with the following file extensions: arw, srf, sr2 (Sony), crw, cr2 (Canon), nef, nrw (Nikon), orf (Olympus), ptx, pef (Pentax), raw, rw2 (Panasonic/Lumix). Most of photographers use Windows or MAC OS image editors to convert RAW images into compressed images like JPEG, PNG or TIFF. At the same time there are several free but competitive software applications for the same purpose in Ubuntu Linux.

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Convert Video for iPod in Ubuntu

Posted on July 5th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 2 comments

There is outstanding application available for Ubuntu to convert video for iPodwinff. Using winff you can convert a lot of various video file formats into others by means of simple and easy graphical tool. No need to type long commands it terminal (winff is GUI frontend for well known command line program ffmpeg) to e.g. convert some .flv video to ipod compatible .mp4 file.

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iTunes in Ubuntu Linux

Posted on June 29th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 16 comments

itunes logoAs far as Apple’s doesn’t support Ubuntu Linux iTunes is compatible only with Mac OS and Windows operating systems. Therefore a lot of Ubuntu newbies have problems with permanent switching as they still require iTunes. In this post I describe all possible approaches and workarounds to run itunes in Ubuntu and also tell how and why to replace itunes with one of native Ubuntu software. So how to run itunes in Ubuntu? There are all known approaches below.

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