Ubuntu Manual

Installing The software i suggested in Ubuntu Lucid and higher. Note: In order to find the latest of each software or software that is not in the software center in older versions. Google the program and download latest stable from their websites. ... [More] ffmpeg is already installed The easy ones that you can install from software center are: Openshot, Avidemux, Winff, Compiz(+ccsm+extra plugins) Medibuntu Open the terminal (ctrl+alt+t) or Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal Paste this line of code: sudo wget –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get –quiet update && sudo apt-get –yes –quiet –allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get –quiet update This will add medibuntu repo. to your software center and your apt-get. Then paste(for correct processor) 32 bit: sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-52 non-free-codecs w32codecs 64 bit: sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-52 non-free-codecs w64codecs Note: if you don’t know which one remove the w32/w64codecs it’s not that important. This will install medibuntu codecs and native playing of different non Linux formats. And now you should be good to continue: 03 Desktop recording 04 converting files to compatible formats —– Like this post in the WordPress toolbar (must be logged in) —– and… Filed under: 03 Video editing [Less]

Ubuntu video editing intro I decided ill do a section about video editing. First think to remember is that this is my way of doing it and not necessarily the best way of doing it. I think it is the best way for my needs currently and this tutorial ... [More] will definitely help you to get things done. Most of the things explained in this tutorial is learned knowledge and can be transfered to different programs. The method is usually the same the approach a bit different. This tutorial will still be useful if you are using different programs. The difference is that you have to modify your approach a little. The setup i am using is the following programs/repos: Medibuntu (contains some candy, like codecs and so) Openshot (video editing software) Avidemux (single clip editor. Good with converting nasty formats, also adding some quality improving effects before using the clips) Winff (Front end for ffmpeg, faster easier converting nicer formats) ffmpeg (terminal input for recording desktop, cpu friendly.) Compiz (ccsm, control boadr for comiz. allowing me to use effects while recording cpu friendly.) I also recommend (GNU/linux webcam studio, -(i have tried it) im not using it myself, because im on a 1.7 ghz older model singlecore, and webcam studio is a bit cpu intensive. awaiting a new computer so i will probably go further in the feature.) Next post will be aboust installing all the apps above, so if you already know what to do jump to nr 03. Goto 02 Install programs -> 03 Desktop recording">Goto 03 – Desktop recording -> Goto 04 – Converting -> Goto post 05 – Introduction to video editing in Ubuntu —– Like this post in the WordPress toolbar (must be logged in) —– and… Filed under: 03 Video editing [Less]

Ubuntu manual Note: the photo is from a prerelease candidate. It just fell into my liking. The Ubuntu manual project released for the first time for Lucid Lynx 29. April. The Ubuntu manual is not meant to replace any of the other guidance material ... [More] , but is more a simpler guide for mainly the newcomers/ new beginners. It’s also a nice manual OEM’s can print out and provide with their sale. The manual covers all the simple, but necessary steps a user has to understand. The beginning of the manual is for simple beginner stuff and it goes over to more complex stuff in a different sector. Meaning the first part is very harmless. The manual is translated to many different languages and even the manual photos are in the language of the released version. VERY good manual in other words. Benjamin Humprey(i hope the last name is correct) is the founder and much of the credit goes to him, buy as is with most opensource the project is a collaborate effort. Benjamin did not translate it to Russian and Greek all by himself. The manual accepts your contribution if it is well and important enough. Download/view http://ubuntu-manual.org/ More: Visit the wiki Visit Ubuntu manual on Launchpad —– Like this post in the WordPress toolbar (must be logged in) —– and… Filed under: 01 Intro [Less]

How to install Skype in Ubuntu? Ive seen this one a couple of times in the forums, so I decided to write this post. Goto skype.com and click the download button. Then click install. You might also want to read about making the menu readable in ... [More] lucid/maverick. —– Please like this post in the WordPress toolbar (must be logged in) —– and… Filed under: Posts [Less]

Use a normal pc microphone on any (tv, headphone) jack cellphone or device (This is one of my first post of topic.) Content: 1. Video demonstration 2. Description and explanation 3. After the —-line explanation of functionality Video demonstration: ... [More] Description: What you need: A pc mic with a regular output and a rubber.(many other objects might work just as well) First and last thing you have to do is to spin the rubber 3 times around the jack. Depending on how thick your rubber is you can vary not only the amount of rounds, but also how hard you strain the rubber. harder = smaller. (don’t use small rubber to tight, then it might get to small :P) TIP: And then waste the rest of the rubber around the plug attachment piece. Then you are good to go. (if your cell phone/device asks, this is a ‘headset’) ————————————————- 3. Why does this work? This is a regular plug and you can see that the microphone is on the lowest three contact points. By changing the length of the normal plug the normal plug hits the points where the microphone contacts in the phone/camera is. Thous working as a microphone. Don’t forget to tweet, facebook, rate and bookmark this. —– Please like this post in the WordPress toolbar (must be logged in) —– and… Filed under: Posts [Less]

2010 has been a very important year for Joey and I and OMG! Ubuntu! About 4 months ago we decided it was time to formalise the website and begin expanding the OMG! network. To do this we had to create some sort of over-arching entity that would ... [More] allow us to easily refer to our products, because we aimed to have more than one. We also felt it was about time we started turning the OMG! brand into a commercial venture. We knew we wanted to start a company, and after about two weeks of trying to come up with names we finally settled on ‘Ohso.’ Tyler came to us with the idea of launching OMG! SUSE! and we let him have at it which expanded the Ohso network to two sites. With the launch of Ubuntu Gamer coming up before the end of the year, we’ll have three, and possibly four. We decided we needed some sort of user-facing image, and, myself being a stickler for consistency, found this idea of a network of very different but at the same time very similar websites an appealing design challenge. We wanted to get away from Blogger as it was slow and very restricting in what we could do, so the new design couldn’t come soon enough. In July I sat down at my desk and started thinking of ideas. To start I wanted to create a nice colour pallete that we could use across multiple sites in varying levels – this would be the first relationship the network would have. It was important to establish something that kept the OMG! cheekiness and funk that we’re known for, but at the same time creating something elegant to raise the bar to that professional level. Looking at other tech sites, I could see that a lot of the time they have gone with function over form – being a designer, I felt we could have both. I wanted to make OMG! Ubuntu! the best looking blog on the internet. Since we already had a very simple colour pallete with OMG! Ubuntu! purple and orange, I compared this to the new Ubuntu branding, aubergine and orange. Our colours are different to Canonical’s, with our purple being a lot darker and our orange being lighter, but I found they worked together well. In the new site design I wanted to convey a professional image, to me (and I think you’ll agree) the deep purples work better than bright oranges in doing this. The header is a gradient of OMG! Ubuntu! purple to Ubuntu aubergine. Because orange is a bright colour, it’s very useful for attracting attention – especially when used in such contrast with aubergine. I decided to use orange sparingly around the site for highlights. These two colours, along with varying shades of gray make up the bulk of the website colour pallete. But there was a problem with links – orange was too bright and not readable, and purple was already too prominent. I experimented with some aquas and blues which I used in the new Ubuntu Manual site design, and settled on a lovely deep aqua for links. I think this provides a nice middle ground between the luscious purples and candy orange. Once I had settled on a colour pallete (which is very important) I started looking around for inspiration. With the new site we wanted to achieve a couple of imporant things regarding posts that the old blogger site didn’t do well: Making featured posts more prominent Allowing readers to easily find previous posts Better social sharing To feature current posts we decided on a large, prominent carousel banner that is 960 x 200 – this gives us a good way to show off breaking news stories, and we can have as many in the loop as we like. It’s consistent with the new Ubuntu web design, so readers should feel quite at home. I also wanted to make use of Joey’s funky and eye-catching graphic design which I know is something that makes OMG! unique. Scrolling down to read posts is a tradeoff, but if you visit any of the large Gawker Media or Weblogs sites, you’ll see they employ similar tactics to an even greater degree. The original design With almost 2000 posts dating back a couple of years (a lot of which are still relevant) it was important to get the most reuse out of this material. Combining a prominent and effective search bar with clear categories will hopefully allow readers to find what they want much more easily than trawling through the endless menus present in the old site. The five categories in the banner serve three purposes: For new visitors to understand what the site is about at a glance So readers can quickly filter something they’re interested in To create an association with the categories in the header and then in the body We have a new icon set (courtesy of ipapun) that comes in two flavours, light and dark, which means we can use these on other websites as well – giving some more consistency across the network. There are quite a few categories missing that we need to create more icons for, so we’ll slowly be expanding the set. The posts themselves needed to improve on the current site in a number of ways: More prominent social buttons for sharing Clearer formatting and font Better use of image collections Excerpts for post previews A lot of this was fixed simply by moving away from blogger. The new site uses a nice gallery plugin to handle image collections. The original design for posts was a bit different to what you see now – the floating categories on the left of the post also contained tags and sharing buttons. We soon realised this wasn’t particularly feasible for longer tags, and Joey wanted more prominent sharing buttons – now we have lovely tags down the bottom of the post, along with small sharing buttons, and then at the top of the post is a floating bar with Digg, Facebook and Twitter. It’s much less obtrusive than the last bar. You can thank Niall for that! Hope you like grids This leaves the side bar and footer. The side bar stuff was hacked up by Niall who spent quite a lot of time fooling around with the Facebook widget and the recent comments (pulled from Disqus) stuff, so that’s why they look quite nice. The footer is pixel perfect to my design – I wanted to achieve a few things with the footer: More professional look Obvious that the site is part of the Ohso network Trademarks and copyrights for Canonical and Ubuntu Links to other sites in our network and social pages Links to static pages I can’t really say much more about the footer other than it looks really good! Our to-do list before launch Overall, I feel the site is quite pleasing to the eye and a big improvement over the last site in terms of design. I think that we have established a unique look and feel, elements of which we will be able to use across many sites to give an excellent network consistency. I am pleased with how the this website has turned out, although there are a few bugs to iron out here and there. We launched the site on the date we set months ago, which is really good – sticking to the schedule without delays is a promising start for a small company like Ohso. I love the site and I hope you guys do too, thanks for reading how it was created. We’ve got a lot more planned for the rest of 2010, so unfortunately we can’t celebrate just yet. Getting this website out the door is a huge milestone, but it’s back to work for us! Ubuntu Gamer coming soon…? For those more technically inclined, Niall (our web developer) will be posting an article about the challenges of creating a new website and moving service and server soon while keeping everything intact with (not much) down time. Follow me on Twitter! I often tweet new ideas and upload teasers of designs I’m working on. [Less]

If you pop on over to OMG! Ubuntu! no doubt you’ll notice something different. That’s right, after two months of design and development, we have unleashed the new face of OMG! Ubuntu! It might take a few minutes hours for the DNS to resolve around ... [More] the world. So what’s new? The site is now on wordpress instead of blogger and on a dedicated new server, which means it’s much faster, and we have a lot more flexibility when it comes to formatting of posts and customizing the layout and style to truly give it that OMG! feel. There’s an entirely new design that brings in elements of the new Ubuntu branding, and also sets the standard for the new websites that Ohso will be opening up over the next few months. The new design features a much nicer category, tag and search system to make it easy to find older posts, a custom set of icons, new sidebar widgets, a new colour pallete, lovely static pages and a beautiful footer that all combine to make this site something unique. The design was done by me and later on I’ll be going into detail examining some of the new aspects of the design, decisions we had to make and unique features that makes this website something we’re really pleased with. In case you didn’t notice, the new website is over 3x faster than the old one! Niall Molloy, our ace web developer and optimization ninja has worked long and hard making sure that this website is the fastest around. Niall has managed to balance beauty and speed, producing something that is faster than most other tech sites on the web! Niall also uses the new CSS3 standard to give lovely fading rollovers and other assorted details, so if you’re using Firefox 4 or Google Chrome you can enjoy these. Niall will be talking about the code behind the site in a later post, including the challenge of transferring nearly 2000 posts with links and comments intact from one provider to another. Overall we’re really happy with the new site and the fact that with a small team of two people working on it, we’ve managed to hit the deadline for launch which we set over 3 months ago! [Less]

How to make the Skype menu visible Lucid Lynx. Skype is one of the best video conference software for Linux. Skype is incredible stable and reliable. The only issue that is common with Skype is that its impossible to read the menu. by default. It ... [More] looks like this: Now this is caused by a very simple and unlucky coincidence. The default theme of Skype is clearlooks that have the same menu text color as the default menu in Lucid Lynx. Changing the theme to something more suiting is not very difficult. Go to options and select another theme. The GTK+ looks very good in Lucid. Result: Filed under: 09 Advanced [Less]

This is a question by Jono Bacon: “Why do you think Ubuntu is good for freedom and how can Ubuntu help freedom? Put it on the Internet, anywhere on the Internet where your social network can see it. Tag it with #ubuntufreedom.” My response: Why is ... [More] Ubuntu good for freedom is not a easy question. It’s good for freedom in so many ways. First of all it’s a very good representative for much free(dom) software. Ubuntu is not what it is without all this software. That Ubuntu is helping and making it easier for this software to reach the masses. Especially children and young students in parts of the world where windows costs about 3 months of wages. This is helping people not only to be a part of the modern society, but also helps them compete in the modern commercialized  world. Also I myself have gotten a unique sensation of freedom by using Ubuntu. Being part of a community that is so focused on helping each other. I try to help as many as i can, how good i can and i think helping people with Ubuntu and spreading the word will make it more popular. Making it more popular means making it better. if 0.1% contributes it means that 1000 people more means one more person contributing. Imagine when the numbers are billion. This is creating a community based software base, helping both the rich and the poor to get better software. Computers are in many ways key to getting along in todays society. Computer software and science like Ubuntu is used for accessing your bank, searching for jobs, creating art, designing websites and making other opportunities for people to earn their income. One of the best parts is that it benefits the poor parts of the world the most. If a person in africa or china can produce a service that gives a small income for Americans or northwest Europeans, he would live well in Africa/China and because of Ubuntu OS be able to provide his family with food and shelter. So Ubuntu and all projects within or without Ubuntu using this model is good for freedom in many more ways than we can imagine Stay well Filed under: Posts [Less]

Installing Java update 20 on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx using terminal - Breakdown after the line. What this will do: 1. Remove open JavaJDK update 18 2. Add Ubuntu partner repository 3. Install sun(oracle)’s Java update 20 All this in three easy steps: NB: ... [More] This will install java update 20 the commercial original Java version(not open source). Step 1: Open the terminal. (ctrl+alt+t) or applications -> Accessories -> Terminal Step 2: Paste the code into the terminal. (ctrl+c to copy and ctrl+shift+v to paste) or right click copy right click paste. Then click enter and wait. You can do other things while waiting, just don’t forget step 3. sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jre icedtea6-plugin --assume-yes && sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup.up && sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) partner" && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts --assume-yes Step 3: In order to complete the installation you have to accept the license agreement. Use the arrow keys and enter to navigate. ————— Breakdown Did you install Restricted extras?: remove old java. If you didn’t this will just do nothing.: sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jre icedtea6-plugin --assume-yes Partner: sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup.up sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) partner" Install: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts --assume -yes && is a binder.. meaning if “1 && 2″ it will do 1 and when done proceed with 2. Source: http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java Filed under: 09 Advanced [Less]