Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

Rip-encode-burn

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

Most of us probably have a favorite CD/DVD or two. Chances are, these media are the ones getting scratch badly due to use and abuse. I have a couple of DVDs with scratches thanks to my kids and their …

Linux-enabled PS3 for Sale

Posted by Rom Feria on February 22nd, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

Linuxdevices.com features TerraSoft's sale of Sony Playstation 3 pre-installed with Linux:

Linux distributor TerraSoft is accepting pre-orders for Sony Playstation3 gaming devices pre-installed w…

Songbird in Ubuntu

Posted by Rom Feria on February 22nd, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

I mentioned Songbird (see image taken from Songbird's website) before so readers should be familiar about this sleek music player. If you still have not tried it out, here's a tutorial on how …

Cross-platform Music Jukebox

Posted by Rom Feria on January 16th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

Java is often perceived as a huge, slow beast. This was true perhaps 2 years ago. Today, Java is fast. One of the most popular Java applications besides Netbeans is Azureus, the BitTorrent client.

J…

Linux Music Players

Posted by Rom Feria on January 10th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

Most linux distributions only come with one or two media players, MPlayer and VLC. Personally, these two applications are sufficient to handle my music — until I found out that there are more players…

Low-cost PVR

Posted by Rom Feria on January 5th, 2007 under Entertainment • No Comments

If you are like me who loves watching the TV, I am sure you'd understand the importance of a personal video recorder (PVR). Unlike commercial PVRs that require you to pay a subscription fee, why n…

Free Linux Games

Posted by Rom Feria on December 12th, 2006 under Entertainment • No Comments

Rob Williams of TechGage has written an article on the top 10 free linux games. The criteria are as follows:

So how does a game make this top 10 list? Well, from 10 – 1, they have all been listed acc…