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Archive for December 2005

December 7th, 2005

HOWTO: Make MP3s With Audacity

Audacity is likely the most popular audio editor in use today. Part of that is because Audacity is free (as in beer AND speech) and the other part is because it’s damn good at what it does. I’ve used Audacity to record and create the OGG and MP3 files for every podcast I’ve ever done.
Given […]

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December 6th, 2005

Geeky Fun: MP3 Tunes - Get Your Music Anywhere.

WARNING: I recently tried their streaming service and it has the wrong bitrate. Worse, it has actually recoded my MP3s at this new bit rate so that ALL of my MP3s on all my computers that were synced (they’re likely OK on the originating computer but I’m not at home to check) are borked. I’ve […]

By Jon -- 2 comments

December 5th, 2005

HOWTO: Restore a Missing Menu Icon in KDE

I recently had a menu icon go AWOL for no apparent reason on my KDE menu. I figured out how to restore it pretty quickly, but thought that the process may not be that intuitive for some. Here’s a little howto on how I did it:

Right-click on the KDE K button and select the Menu […]

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December 4th, 2005

The Free World: Linspire Sale.

Try Out Linux has a coupon code to get a full version of Linspire for $20 (vice the $44.95 download price).
That’s a pretty good deal if you’re the least bit interested in Linspire, but you may want to hang on and keep an eye on Try Out Linux. It wasn’t all that long ago that […]

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December 2nd, 2005

The Free World: Linspire.

Regular readers may recall that I recently gave Arch Linux a try. It didn’t work out for me (likely because I’m not one of the ‘competent users’ that Arch Linux is designed for), but it left me with a nice empty partition just screaming for a new distro to try out. I was pretty sure […]

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December 1st, 2005

The Free World: Web Browsers.

I have a bit of a reputation for being too harsh on Firefox. It’s not that I don’t like Firefox, I just think that the hype is waaaay higher than it should be. I don’t think it’s that bad, but I don’t think it’s that good, either.
I will say that Firefox is my browser […]

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