Install Canola Media Center in Ubuntu Linux

If you love this media center "thing" :) then Canola is a pretty cool looking easy to use media center that you should give a try. Although it has been developing for sometime now, yet they haven't released a lot of new version as with other apps.

Anyway, I like its default screen which has solid look-n-feel and it loads fast + as with all other media centers apps, you can manage your Video/Audio files easily with it nonetheless.

From pod casts playback to photo management, internet radio, video casting/photo casting, etc... it certainly does look promising. Other than the default icon sets, you can define your own owns for your video folder for instance as well.


So if you want to give it a try... then make sure you're running Ubuntu 10.04, since I couldn't find a PPA for Ubuntu 10.10 (sorry about that). So, open your Terminal and issue the below command to install Canola in Ubuntu.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canola/ppa && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install canola

Image Uploading to Imageshack via "Unity's Launcher" Made Easy

Imageshack is one of the largest online image storing websites in the world. From film screenshots to personal images... millions of people use it everyday. Although there are few tools for windows, but even though I'm not a huge fan of the Upcoming Ubuntu's desktop module called "Unity", but if you love Unity and also heavily uses Imageshack on daily basis, then this "Drag-n-Drop" app for Imageshack will most definitely come in handy without a doubt.

Via: OMG-Ubuntu

As you can guess, once installed, you can easily upload images to Imageshack via the Unity's app launched by simply drag-n-drop. To install it, open your Terminal and issue the below command.

wget –directory-prefix=/tmp –default-page=imgupload http://ubuntuone.com/p/mEL/ && chmod +x /tmp/imgupload && sudo mv /tmp/imgupload /usr/bin

Then download the ".desktop" file which ads the icon for launcher from here. Once you've downloaded it, simply drag and drop the ".desktop" file into the launcher.

So, from now on, every time you want to upload an image to Imageshack, simply select the image and drag and drop it to the "icon" on the launcher in Unity (you need to have installed Ubuntu 11.04 for this). That's it.

Install Jokosher in Ubuntu, Create and Record Music With Ease in GNU Linux

Jokosher is an easy to use GTK based audio multi track editor for GNU Linux. From loading audio files to the GUI to editing with different effects, enhancements, mixing, etc, Jokosher is an elegant app!.

Main features...

*. Intuitive GUI.

*. Editing, splitting, mixing, analyzing, trimming, etc..

*. Supports various instruments.

*. Since it is based on the Gstreamer framework, any audio file supported by Gstreamer is supported by Jokosher (ogg, mp3, AAC, WAV, etc).

*. Recording.

So, if you use Ubuntu and wanting to know how to install it then as usual, open your Terminal and enter the below command.

sudo apt-get install jokosher

 

Install WinFF in Ubuntu, A Multimedia Encoding Front-end for FFMpeg

The days of searching your ass-off, trying to find a multimedia converter for GNU Linux are finally over, it seems. WinFF is a GUI for the powerful FFMpeg multimedia handling library. Since FFMpeg supports almost all the known multimedia codecs in the planet... with the help of WinFF, you can convert almost any video/audio file to any given format using a very easy to use GUI!.

Main features...

*. Unlike the command-line version, now you can change settings graphically such as - Setting bit-rate, resolutions, cropping, single-dual pass video, etc.

*. Supports a lot of codecs such as - mp3, aac, MPEG, H.264, Ogg Vorbis, Xvid, Divx, etc.

*. Play videos directly from the window.

*. Add lists of files to be converted.

*. Additional advanced options.

*. Supports multithreading (for PCs with more than a one core). 

*. Built in presets, etc.

If you use Ubuntu and wondering how to install WinFF, then open your Terminal and issue the below command.

sudo apt-get install winff