A2DP (Stereo Bluetooth Headset) on Linux

  • January 11, 2008
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    Jacob
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Note: These instructions will eventually be obsolete. This will not work with Bluez 4 or above, included with Ubuntu 8.10+. PulseAudio is also set to get automatic A2DP configuration through a Google SoC project very soon.

Wires are for suckers. In this day and age, wireless headphones are where it's at. While we may not be able to drop the power cord for the time being, we can at …

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K3B - the easy way to burn CDs and DVDs in KDE

  • January 9, 2008
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    Peter
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K3B is an application that ships in the default KDE packages in most distributions, however it's a very useful tool that can often be overlooked.

K3B is a CD and DVD burning application that makes it easy to burn data, audio and disc images onto writable CDs and DVDs. It is a very mature, stable and fully featured application.

Open up K3B and you are presented with a split view, …

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Filelight - a KDE disk usage tool

  • January 7, 2008
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    Peter
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Due to popular demand, and just because it's a nice KDE application that does a similar job as what I covered last time, I'm now going to show you Filelight.

Filelight bills itself as a program that "creates an interactive map of concentric segmented-rings that helps visualise disk usage on your computer". In essence, it's a graphical program that helps you look at and understand how much space …

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PulseAudio Volume Manager

  • January 6, 2008
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    Jacob
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With PulseAudio already in Fedora and soon to be in Ubuntu 8.04, it is sure to get even more popularity. But what is so special about it? To many, it just seems like yet another replacement for esound. And while PulseAudio can be dropped right in to replace ESD without problems, it offers so much more.

One big feature is the volume manager. While it doesn't seem to be packaged …

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