Ubuntu and many other GNU/Linux distributions nowadays use the Pulse Audio sound server because of its versatile features. Although my sound card never had that much luck with Pulse Audio because when the audio output is “amplified” by Pulse, it …
Computers are still pretty dumb (as far as I know :D) and still suck while trying to do things like interacting using human languages for instance. But there are certain fields that computers have shown pretty interesting “capabilities” too. The …
The system monitoring utility that comes with Ubuntu is a GUI tool and it is pretty good too. But if you’re a system administrator or a user who usually hangs around the Terminal or the command-line, then wouldn’t it be …
Unlike with MS Windows, by default, GNU/Linux comes with excellent built in tools for optical disc burning, such as Brasero or GnomeBaker if you use Ubuntu. But if you’re a power user then you’d be disappointed by them both because …
If you’re looking for a singe installer that will make sure that you’ll be able to play almost all known codecs to mankind 🙂 (I’m serious though!) plus at the same time that doesn’t cost you anything at all, then …
Data encryption is one of the best ways of protecting your sensitive data from data thefts and other security vulnerabilities. And normally data encryption can be divided into two main categories. Either into Hardware encryption (independent of the OS because …
Mostly due to Audio CDs, Microsoft’s proprietary audio format known as “WAVE” is still heavily used. It maybe a proprietary format and has its own limitations but it does have the ability to hold quality audio streams nonetheless. But what …
Sound server is a piece of software that “delivers” audio data (signal) from an audio rendering app (multimedia player or any other similar software) to an audio output device such as a sound card. It runs as a system service …
If have a big image collection then one of the best ways to enjoy them is to create a slideshow. And every slideshow is sort of a “movie” (since videos are nothing but fast moving pictures) but unlike with a …
If you haven’t heard then “ffmpegthumbnailer” is an awesome little tool that uses the faster and more efficient FFmpeg multimedia library to help Nautilus file manager create video thumbnails faster than Totem does. Now Totem is based on Gstreamer framework …
Chrome OS Linux is a completely separate project from the original Google Chrome OS. Although they both “revolve” around the Chrome web browser, yet the Chrome OS Linux is an independent GNU/Linux distribution build on the OpenSuse distribution. According to …
Amarok without a doubt is one of the best free and cross-platform music players and is also one of the major components of the KDE desktop environment. It supports few multimedia frameworks (Gstreamer/Phonon and player engines such as Xine), has …
