It seems as though Apple Inc. can’t be satisfied by booming sales and record profits. Cupertino’s evil empire has decided that it would be best to put tamper resistant screws into the iPhone. Of course that may be best for Apple’s bottom line and not necessarily best for their customers.
Now, when faithful Apple customers bring their iPhones into an Apple store for a warranty repair, the standard Phillips screws are to be replaced with “Pentalobe” screws. Continue reading
I spent some time back in December compiling videos of my daughter for a family DVD. One of the things I wanted to do was to add a small caption to each video clip to document the date of the recording. I ended up using Avidemux and the subtitle video filter to add the captions to the video.
You’ll of course need to have Avidemux installed on your system in order to follow this process. Check your distro’s repositories. Continue reading
Ubuntu One is a file synchronization service that allows you to share files among multiple computers. You place files into your Ubuntu One folder and they get synch’d with your account on the web. Files can also be shared with other Ubuntu One users as well and if you publish them they can be shared with anyone on the internet. It’s similar to other synchronization/sharing services like Dropbox. Continue reading
This past weekend I was using a Windows XP computer and there was a notification in the system tray that said Java needed to update. I clicked the icon to go ahead with the update and to my surprise I saw a nice little ad for Open Office while the the Java update was downloading. Continue reading
My last post was about converting audio files in Linux with GStreamer. In that post I showed how to convert FLAC files to Ogg Vorbis files and retain the audio tags. You may however, have an audio player that does not support playing Ogg Vorbis audio files and you want to convert your files to MP3 instead. Continue reading