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[How To] Quickly Convert Ogv to Avi in Ubuntu
YouTube hates Ogv. Seriously.
If you’ve ever taken the trouble to record a screencast of your desktop for a video tutorial; spent hours in PiTiVi editing a video of your hamster doing the macarena; or otherwise ended up with a video in the .ogv file format you’ll know that this is true.
Here’s a quick script that makes conversion of ogv to avi a snap.
‘Bleedingedge’ script lets you quickly add beta software to Ubuntu
Sometimes it seems like there just aren’t enough ways to endanger your stable Ubuntu set-up.
‘BleedingEdge’ is a script that offers up a selection of unstable software to put paid to that.
‘YeoWorks Ubuntu Solutions’ provides one-click fixes for common Ubuntu issues
Solving minor issues in Ubuntu just got easier with the launch of ‘YeoWorks Ubuntu Solutions’ – a small application that provides one-click ‘solutions’ for a raft of Ubuntu bugs, flaws and annoyances.
Script to set the ‘NASA wallpaper of the day’ as your wallpaper daily
Reader Christian S. sends word of an automated wallpaper script he’s written that helps alleviate boring background blues (with some help from NASA).
How to quickly install Virtualbox 4.0 in Ubuntu
Want to easily upgrade to the latest version of virtual machine application ‘Virtualbox’? You now can using the following small script.
Zeitgeist Time freeze (or how not to lose your logs every 6 months) [Updated with download]
Over on DevinatArt, designer Izobalax has been musing on a minor flaw in Zeitgeists armour: the ability to easily ‘take’ your logswith you.
Intelligent boot splash greeter
Elephants and readers with a good memory may remember an ‘ambient boot splash’ proposal we featured at the end of October.
Easily Upload photos to Facebook using Nautilus
So you have one photo you want to upload to Facebook but Shotwell seems over-kill and opening a browser seems too much effort.
Well, take the hassle out of posting images to your Facebook profile with this nifty Nautilus Facebook uploader script.
Share any folder on the web in 10 seconds using Nautilus and one script
So you don’t want a DropBox and you’re not one for Ubuntu One – but you do want to make a folder full of pictures, music or other oddities available to friends on the other side of the world.
Using the following python script, created by gnome-look user hardball, you can do just that: share any folder via ‘http on port 8000′. You can even share folders ‘mounted by gvfs’ – such as remote windows folders.
“Where is this icon?” Nautilus script is incredibly nifty
Many of us keep hold of things we don’t need all the time but that tend to come in handy every now and again: Sewing thread, spare fuses, half-full batteries, Benjamin Humphrey…
The “Where is this icon?” Nautilus script below is just such an item. Once added to your Nautilus scripts folder you need only right click on an application and run the script it to find out the location of the icon in use.
Nautilus Imgur uploading Script updated with login feature
Last week I posted about Tommy Brunn’s ace Imgur nautilus script that makes image uploading a right-click breeze. On that post many readers wished for ‘login’ support so that images could be uploaded to their Imgur accounts. Reader khAttAm saw fit to bake such a feature in and his improved account-supporting version of the script [...]
Use Ubuntu mono icons with any icon theme
Keep a mono-styled tray icons but use any theme set of your choice for the rest of your system.
Install Docky Stacks in Ubuntu with one command
One feature in popular Linux Dock application Docky that I personally adore/could no longer live without is ‘Stacks’ – a neat visual approach to displaying files within a folder via the dock. Despite my dependence on this feature its worth being aware that it isn’t even stable yet! Stacks We’ve covered the development of the [...]
Easy Blu-ray Movie Playback in Linux
Watch Blu-Ray discs in Ubuntu – with next-to-no effort required – thanks to a new script by Scott Duensing.