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How to force Skype to use Alsa on Linux – howto tip

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Linewbie.com Posted in audio/video/pics, multimedia .

Want it or not Skype can be a popular software application. In fact it really is so popular it is the only piece regarding voice communication software several my friends use. Because of this We have an account an put it to use on my Bodhi system once in a while (at least it’s got a native : if poor : Linux client and I need not run it by means of Wine). In case an individual didn’t know : Bodhi ships together with just the Alsa sound server automagically (there are a variety of reasons because of this – none of which My goal is to get into the following) and thankfully Skype installs and also works perfectly great with Alsa : until pulse audio appears that is.
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Hacking Archos 605 Wifi – Linux Hack On Archos 605 WiFi

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Linewbie.com Posted in audio/video/pics, cool stuff, gadgets & mobiles, guides, hardware, random stuff, tips .

Some industrious programmers have found a way to hack the Archos 605 WiFi portable video player to run the Qtopia Linux platform. By the looks of it, the Qtopia hack doesn’t add much in the way of extra media features (the Archos does pretty well as-is), but it opens the door to developing the Archos 605 WiFi as a more generally useful and configurable tablet PC. The Qtopia hack appears to work on older models of the Archos players as well, although the Archos fifth-generation players seem to be easier to configure.

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Download embedded mp3, songs and videos from websites such as youtube

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in audio/video/pics, guides, how to .

The times of slow internet connections are over and most webmasters don’t have to worry about long loading times anymore. This means that background music becomes more popular. Sometimes you hear a song you like on a site, but you don’t know how the song is called and/or can’t find it anywhere on the world wide web. If the song is embedded with a Flash file, or if the whole site is Flash, most people think that it’s impossible to download the song because they can’t find a link to it. In this post I’ll prove the opposite. I’ll use the website 3121.com/jam/. It’s Prince’s official website, which features a new Jam of the Week every week. Since I’m a big fan I want the songs on my iPhone, but there isn’t a download link on the site! The following steps allow me to download the song, without a download link.

1. Download the web browser Safari (OSX or Windows) and start it.

2. Browse to the site with the embedded song (in this example: 3121.com/jam/)

3. In Safari’s toolbar, click Window > Activity

4. Scroll to the mp3 file, if there’s more than one, use common sense in combination with the file size and file name to find the right one. Double click it.

5. If the download starts automatically, the song will appear in your downloads folder, if it opens Quicktime, hit the little arrow and select safe as source. If it does something else, copy paste the URL in Firefox and go to file > save as.

That’s it! This little trick works for all embedded things (youtube video’s, background music, vodcasts, podcasts etc.)

If you know a better way, please leave a comment, though I think that this beats all youtube download pages/plugins (since it won’t go down after 2 days nor need to be constantly updated)

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