Minitunes 1.0 has been released

Minitunes 1.0 has been released

Jul 05

Installation in Ununtu and Linuxmint:

To install Minitube 1.0 in ubuntu 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04 and LinuxMint:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/minitunes
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install minitunes

Minitunes is just another music player, only better.
Minitunes unclutters your music listening experience with a clean and innovative interface.

More here: link

Multi Boot Linux From USB

Multi Boot Linux From USB

Jan 04

Tutorial on how to boot more then one Linux Distro from your USB:

http://pcplus.techradar.com/feature/linux/multi-boot-linux-usb-30-12-10

I haven’t had a chance to run through this, but this is an amazing idea. Its perfect, i know once i get some free time i am going to put Ubuntu, Mint and slax all on my 8gig!

Enjoy~

Showing Korean in Python

Showing Korean in Python

Dec 31

If you ever tried to add korean in your prints or what have you with python you will notice you get an error looking like this:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ‘xec’ in file gravity.py on line 10, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

Luckily this is an extremely easy fix!

just add this to the top of your script:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

example source with korean:

http://pastebin.com/eXWsxZM9

Enjoy and Happy New Years!

Portable Android: Android on a USB.

Portable Android: Android on a USB.

Dec 23

Before we start i just want everyone to know PC = windows. PC means personal computer, not an operating system.

Now you might be asking why would you want to run Android on your PC? Well why not, its an easy way to test our the OS as well as test applications on it.

The androids home is http://code.google.com/p/live-android.

USB booting

The easiest way i find to running Android on your PC is through USB. You will need the right ISO, you can find that here.

1. Choose the files ‘liveandroidv0.2usb.iso.001′ and ‘liveandroidv0.2usb.iso.002′ to download, when you have both right click and extract ’liveandroidv0.2usb.iso.001′ this will join both files into one.

2. Download UNetbootin. This will convert the ISO into a readable and bootable USB operating system.

3. Run UNetbootin, load the Liveandroid.iso into the unetbootin application. Ensure your USB is inserted, select the right drive of your USB. Then allow UNetBootin to turn your USB into a portable OS.

4. After the install is completed restart your computer, turn on USB mode in your bios and then boot from USB. If your turned USB mode on you will see an option to boot from USB.

Note: If your computer hangs on boot up that means your hardware is not compatible with running Android. Try it on another PC or try loading the ISO in a virtual machine.

60+ Best GIMP Tutorials of 2010

60+ Best GIMP Tutorials of 2010

Dec 12

looking for some good Gimp Tutorials i was lucky enough to find this large amount of tutorials. So i figured why not sure them out:

http://www.scottphotographics.com/40-best-gimp-tutorials-of-2010/

Here are my top  favorite tutorials off of that list:

Glow FX extreme

The creepy zombie hand of death

Upgrading Linux terminal to 256 Colors

Upgrading Linux terminal to 256 Colors

Dec 01

The Amazing thing about being in the world of 2010 is we have so many more advance technologies. When it comes to linux terminal, there are so many wonders that can be done. But how come the default terminal colors are 8?

Go ahead type:

tput colors
 see that number 8? ridiculous right? 

As of now there is a posibility of 256 colors  usable for the terminal. 
Luckily this is easy to make happen!
First install:


sudo apt-get install ncurses-term

and stick the following in your ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile:

export TERM=xterm-256color

After you edit your .bashrc or .bash_profile source that same file: 
source ~/.bashrc
Now retype that command above
tput colors


 

that is more like it!

Now what is this good for?
Vim themes, terminal browsers, and anything else that might use color.
Speaking of vim themes! My top vim themes coming soon!

To hold you over heres an awesome them called xoria256.vim (which will only work with 256 terminal colors)

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2140