Mar 20, 2010 Posted by newlife007

Downloading YouTube Videos and Extracting Audio on Ubuntu

Have you ever had a YouTube video that you just wanted to have on your PC in-case you were not online to watch it or you wanted the audio extracted from one of those videos to listen to on your PC or iPod? With Firefox addons  that is a reality. I had a friend who had found a very, very old German song and found it on YouTube put to a slideshow and was asked how to download the video and extract the... read more

Mar 14, 2010 Posted by newlife007

Epson 4490 Photo scanner Ubuntu

The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner is not supported in Ubuntu by sane. To get the scanner to work in Ubuntu you must download and install third party software. This how to describes how I was able to install it on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 64-bit. Install libsane-extras (sudo apt-get install libsane-extras) Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and uncomment epson2 if it is not done already. Go to... read more

Mar 14, 2010 Posted by newlife007

Adding DVD Support Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

Due to licensing on encrypted DVD you are unable to watch your movies on Ubuntu. To remedy this you can add the support needed to Ubuntu 9.10. $ sudo wget –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get –quiet update && sudo apt-get –yes –quiet –allow-unauthenticated... read more