Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

How To Record Streaming Audio in Ubuntu

Posted by Rom Feria on September 24th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

I'd say, "WOW!" The photo we have here is from RogueAmoeba's Mac-only Radioshift application, one that allows you to save streams from online radios. It is during these times that I …

EVE Online on Linux

Posted by Rom Feria on September 15th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

Whilst I am no gamer, I still find it interesting to see cool games made available on Linux. This time, it is EVE Online, which is "(EVE Online is) host to the largest virtual universe in the wor…

LinuxMCE walk through

Posted by Rom Feria on August 20th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

This is a complete walk through of LinuxMCE, a Kubuntu Linux distribution dedicated for your media, e.g., audio and video, covering installation, configuration and optimization.

Warning, it is more…

Musical scores on your desktop

Posted by Rom Feria on August 11th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

I remember one of the University of the Philippines College of Music professor scanning his musical scores and saving them as images instead of a format that will allow him to edit and create more mas…

Rhythmbox as iPod Management Tool

Posted by Rom Feria on July 31st, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

I wrote about Amarok as a tool to manage your iPod, Apple's portable music and video player. If Amarok is not your cup of tea (or coffee), then here's another way to manage your music collect…

Surround Sound and ALSA

Posted by Rom Feria on July 31st, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

Still on the topic of audio and ALSA, one of the quirks I had with Linux was how to enable 5.1 (or more speakers) to work perfectly with my music. After troubleshooting and configuring your system aud…

How to fix Linux audio issues

Posted by Rom Feria on July 31st, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

Admittedly, it is only now that Linux and multimedia are starting to play wonderful music together (it was not so 10 years ago!). However, this does not prevent the occasional glitches that one experi…

iPod Management using Amarok

Posted by Rom Feria on July 29th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

Managing Apple's portable music player, the iPod, on Linux normally defaults to using GnuPod or GtkPod. I use GtkPod to manage the first gen iPod shuffle and a 3rd gen 40GB iPod. Whilst these are …

Why Linux is *not* a gaming platform

Posted by Rom Feria on July 28th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

In a blog entry, "Debunking Linux and its Relationship with Gaming", the author presented a line-up of decent games available on the Linux platform. It is an attempt to debunk claims that Li…

Mythbuntu alpha now available

Posted by Rom Feria on June 6th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

Fast on the heels of MythDora, Mythbuntu, a project that aims at "(P)roviding an Ubuntu based MythTV distribution that is easy to configure, maintain, and use", just released its version 7.0…