In this second and final part I'll demonstrate some of the loop-specific tools I've found in Ardour, Reaper, and Audacity. Tutorials and links to project demos are included, so warm up your headphones and let's get loopy.
Read more »How to install beautiful X11 cursors
X11 comes with unattractive mouse cursors, but it’s trivial to replace them with other themes. In this article I’ll explain how to install mouse cursors system-wide or for a single user, and give you links to my favorite cursor themes.
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Capturing your screen with Istanbul
Making video recordings of your screen can be very useful. If you’re trying to demo something to someone or just want to record something on your desktop, it can be an invaluable tool.
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Photo Gallery: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 beta 1 has been released and TuxJournal already has one of the greatest and richest screenshots gallery now available about the new release with about 50 detailed screenshoots.
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What's coming in Kubuntu 7.10
Gutsy Gibbon Beta CD release brings with it many updated, new, and exciting applications. For this latest release of Kubuntu 7.10, the usability standards have improved and there have already been some aesthetic changes. Besides these changes, there have been updates to many common applications as well as bug fixes to some of those annoyances you may or may not have run into.
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Ubuntu Beta: A Glimpse Of What's To Come In 7.10
The Ubuntu team has announced the beta release of Ubuntu 7.10 and its variants, including Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu. The final release of Ubuntu 7.10, dubbed "Gutsy Gibbon," will happen sometime next month.
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Making a backup reminder script
I like to back up the data on my laptop computer as often as possible, just in case I have trouble with it. I have some large files on the laptop that prevent me from scheduling an Internet backup to my home machine, so I have written a script that reminds me to periodically plug in an external USB drive; then upon clicking continue, the reminder script runs my custom backup script.
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Hand-Me-Down Linux: The Notebook Edition
Not long ago I blogged about fitting Linux onto an older system and giving it to someone who doesn’t need the latest model of PC. This week, I tried it with a notebook that’s about seven or eight years old. Windows XP barely ran. Linux gave it a new lease on life.
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Open Source Game Review: Super Tux 0.1.3
Mario. Probably one of the best and most memorable of great classic games. It still thrills and excites even to this day in all its forms. So much so that it's still spawning new and exciting versions of our favorite plumber and his friends. But what if Mario wasn't a plumber? What if he were, say, a penguin? If he were, then you'd have Super Tux!
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What's New in Mandriva Linux 2008.0
In less than two weeks time Mandriva 2008.0 will be ready and published. There were great ideas at the start of the development phase, and in in those six months that have passed, Mandriva has always been one of the most active projects on CIA.vc. Let's take a look at what can be expected.
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Heavenly Hardware Support
Printer, camera, scanner--all detected and configured in less than 2 minutes. PCLinuxOS has knocked my socks off!
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Top 21 Linux Games Of 2007
Below are addictive 3d games for linux users to fill their time with. These games are really good and some have won awards or have been featured on magazines. Most of it is cross platform and free. You don’t have to use ‘Wine’ to be able to play as they come with Linux installers.
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The 7 Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions
GNU/Linux offers a bewildering variety of flavors -- or distributions, as they're called. To a newcomer's eye, many of these seem virtually identical to each other. Yet, the more you learn about a distribution and the community that surrounds it, the more different they become. Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of the seven distributions that have most affected GNU/Linux as a whole...
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DRM troubles drive ex-Microsoft employee to Linux!
Jesper Johansson--a former senior program manager for security policy at Microsoft: "Upon inspecting the problem I found that the video would turn on, the screen would flicker for a second each of black and the video a few times, and then the Blue Screen of DRM came up. It also wouldn't play any premium channels," he wrote.
Read more »OPEN SOURCE GOD: 480+ Open Source Applications
Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon
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