Tagging music is quite useless for the average computer user since you would not even notice the difference. But if you want to distribute music, have a music collection or if you are a member of last.fm, you may need to have every song tagged correctly. When you use the windows XP system, this may take ages. You need to search for the correct tags on the internet and tag each file seperately. That is… until you download Kid3.
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11
Tag your music the right way with Kid3
Posted by Flo in Open Source on November 11th, 2008.Tags: bulk, editor, ID3, Music, tagging
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Nov
10
Transcoding everything to everything with MediaCoder
Posted by Flo in Open Source on November 10th, 2008.Tags: coding, encoding, free, transcoding
Like I stated in my post about online converting, there are a lot of different file types out on the internet, and this can cause trouble, especially when you download music for your mp3 player.This problem is there because most mp3 players don’t even support a common used extension as wma. So if you want to listen to those files on your mp3 player, you need to convert them to mp3. This is possible with some internet services, but these services won’t let you convert a large amount of files at once. This is where MediaCoder can help you. It can convert nearly every file type into nearly every file type, it can convert a lot of files at once, and most important: it’s free.
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Nov
04
Time Wasters of the month November 2008
Posted by Flo in Offbeat on November 4th, 2008.Tags: browser, flash, games, online, Open Source
You sometimes have some spare moments in life. What better way to fill those moments with some time wasting games? Every month I will select 5 games that are perfect for this: 4 that are free to play, and one great game that costs a little money. This months headliners will be Fable 2 ,I’ve been waiting for this title a very long time, and Quantum Legacy, a free browser based multiplayer RTS.
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Oct
02
Time Wasters of the month October 2008
Posted by Flo in Offbeat on October 2nd, 2008.Tags: free, games, time, waster
You sometimes have some spare moments in life. What better way to fill those moments with some time wasting games? In this new (hopefully) monthly topic, I will select 5 games (of which 4 are free to play) which can fill up that spare time in a great way.
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Sep
13
Fix your Kubuntu login screen resolution
Posted by Flo in Tech, Tricks on September 13th, 2008.Tags: Kubuntu, Linux, OS, Ubuntu
After installing Kubuntu Hardy, I noticed that I could scroll through the login screen. This is because Kubuntu’s xserver gives you the option to add some virtual space around your screen, so everything is bigger, and you can scroll to the things you want to see. The problem is that I didn’t want this virtual space. So here’s a quick guide how to repair this problem (a lot of people seem to have it).
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Sep
10
Peazip: a multifunctional archiving tool
Posted by Flo in Open Source, Tech on September 10th, 2008.Tags: archives, compressing, extracting, files
A long time ago, and I mean a VERY long time ago, my worst fear was only to be able to get certain files in a rar format, because I wasn’t able to open them. That is, untill I got WinRar, but it kept nagging me that I should buy the full version. Of course I didn’t like that, so I stopped downloading rar files. That is, until about a year ago when I started to download through usenet, where everything is distributed in rar archives. So I tried to find a better free tool with less irritations than WinRar. This is how I found PeaZip, and it gave me a reason to start downloading rar files again.
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Aug
17
Installing NVIDIA drivers in Kubuntu
Posted by Flo in Site news, Tricks on August 17th, 2008.Tags: Kubuntu, Linux, OS, Ubuntu
When installing my NVIDIA drivers on Kubuntu Hardy, it came to me that this wasn’t as easy as it probably should be. I use the word probably because I use a quite old graphics card, and Kubuntu automatically seems to install the drivers for the newest cards. However it may be, I had some problems with it, and when solving these problems, I saw that it is possible to install your NVIDIA drivers in a better way than just letting Kubuntu fix this. Here’s a quick guide (with a small troubleshooting section that you can use when you boot into the command line interface) how to install your NVIDIA drivers on Kubuntu the “easy” way.
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Aug
12
Setting your screen resolution in Kubuntu Hardy
Posted by Flo in Tech, Tricks on August 12th, 2008.Tags: Kubuntu, Linux, OS, Ubuntu
When upgrading to Kubuntu Hardy, I found that the maximum possible resolution I could use seemed to be 800×600… Not being able to select my preferred 1024×768 resolution, I had to figure out how to be able to select this resolution. This took me about 6 hours… and the solution for this problem is quite easy. So here’s my newbie (it’s me who is obviously the n00b…) guide in fixing this problem.
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Aug
06
Rip videos and music from Youtube
Posted by Flo in Tricks on August 6th, 2008.Tags: Music, video, youtube
Sometimes videos are just too interesting to let them stay on Youtube, you just need to have them. There are several ways to do this, but I think that using the free program “MediaCoder” is the best way. This is a quick guide explaining how to use this software to get videos from youtube. I will also explain how to use it to only rip the music from a Youtube video (so you don’t have to search for it on usenet, P2P or a torrent site). This trick also seems to work for MySpace, Google Video and some other video services.
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Aug
04
CCleaner cleans your Windows
Posted by Flo in Freeware on August 4th, 2008.Tags: cleaning, registry, tool
When you are using your computer, especially when you are browsing the web, a lot of files are saved that you probably won’t need anymore. These files also include information about your browsing experience. CCleaner deletes these files so you can use this space for useful things and to secure your privacy.
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