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Ubuntu : Convert video for Nokia Mobiles in MP4 format 5

May

5

2011

Most Nokia handsets feature symbian s60 platform v9.0 and upwards. Natively they have option to record and play MP4 files with MPEG-4 part 2, which is h.263. Higher end Nokia mobiles like N8 will support mp4 files with MPEG-4 part 10 H264 codec. This means that most videos you find on the internet viz. youtube ...

Ubuntu 11.04 : Uninstall Gnome3 and revert to Gnome 2.x 101

Apr

26

2011

Ubuntu 12.04 Update: In the latest Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS, the classic option is back. All you need to do is install gnome-panel like this. sudo apt-get install gnome-panel Logoff and choose classic from login screen. A Note: It is still believed to be in work in progress, not 100% ready yet I believe. ...

Ubuntu : Automatically receive files over bluetooth 7

Feb

17

2011

In Ubuntu 10.10 maverick meerkat, the default setup of bluetooth would not allow you to automatically receive files over bluetooth. For every file(s) transferred you have to manually accept the request. This gets annoying when you have to send multiple files sitting away from your System. This can be fixed. Goto System->Preferences->Bluetooth as shown below. ...

Ubuntu clive http 404 error solution. 3

Aug

5

2010

Update: For 11.04’s clive version 2.2.13, the youtube video URLs are throwing the following error. error: no match: `(?-xism:fmt_url_map=(.*?)&)' and the solution for this is to pick the package from Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric which is of version 2.2.25-2 as of this writing. Clive is very useful commandline utility to extract video from video websites like ...

Ubuntu Apache2 : Change default DocumentRoot /var/www 55

May

1

2010

By default the document root folder for apache2 in Ubuntu is /var/www. This is where you can store your site documents. In order to change the default site location to a different one, /opt/mysite use the following method. A detailed steps to install LAMP on ubuntu is given here. To do this, we must create ...

Enable sound for 3gp videos in ubuntu using mplayer 4

Jul

15

2009

To play 3gp videos with audio using mplayer in Ubuntu Jaunty, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list You need the GPG key for medibuntu packages. Get it the following way. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring sudo apt-get update now install the following packages w32codecs mplayer mencoder amrnb ...

Unable to connect Yahoo messenger in Kopete? 4

Jul

12

2009

[UPDATE] As of now the latest update on jaunty for the kopete package, the problem is fixed in the version 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2. It seems Yahoo! is changing their protocols for client connection. Heard somewhere this is done to disallow 3rd party clients like pidgin and trillian access yahoo’s messenger service. On my Ubuntu Jaunty, this has ...

Juploadr: Flickr upload tool for Linux and Mac!

Mar

1

2008

Though i had found this tool long time back, it came about pretty handy while using it recently. Get it from jUploadr Just untar the package and run jupload from the installation folder. This launches a simple UI which allows you to drag and drop photos to it. Just add a flickr account and authorize ...

Remote Login to Linux from Windows (Non-VNC) 6

Nov

23

2007

We can actually login to a *nix based system running X server remotely from Windows XP/Vista based machines. Although there are other ways to achieve remote login using Putty for a SSH login and file transfer over SSH using WinSCP. This particular method allows you to access the entire desktop as a independent session unlike ...

Download videos from youtube.com 3

Jan

24

2007

Update: On Ubuntu a better approach to download youtube videos from command line is using clive. It has options to download the best available format for the video using the -f option. Also a to download videos directly from the youtube.com homepage a firefox extension provides a “Save As” option just below the playing video. ...