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Power your [Ubuntu] laptop by Water or Sun

Posted on August 19th, 2010 by kate.p in Gadgets | 1 comment

There is vast variety of [cheap] solar chargers for mobile gadgets like players or cell phones but how to power my [Ubuntu loaded] laptop while I’m on vacation somewhere at muddy site? There are at least two options: portable solar laptop chargers and personal water-powered generators. See more about both below in this post.

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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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