Teeworlds Online 2D Shooter

Published in April 23rd, 2008

Teeworlds is an open source 2D platform shooter featuring online play. Your round character will run, jump, and grapple around maps while wielding weapons and avoiding being killed by other players. The game recently was forced to change their name because of a copyright issue. The server browser: In-game: Officially, there are no packages available [...]

Encode Video for the iPod Touch or iPhone

Published in April 22nd, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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Now that you have your iPhone or iPod Touch syncing in Linux, how about putting some video on it? These iPods are picky about video formats, but the excellent Avidemux video tool can encode your videos to be compatible. [update] I’m now using WinFF and FFmpeg instead of Avidemux. Install Avidemux in Ubuntu. I used [...]

Wirelessly Sync an iPhone or iPod Touch with Ubuntu

Published in April 21st, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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Apple has made it as difficult as they could to sync the iPod Touch and iPhone to any application other than iTunes. As a result, syncing an iPod Touch or iPhone in Linux is still no easy task. The way it works right now, Linux needs to get access to the iPod’s iTunes database via [...]

A Lightweight WebKit-based Browser

Published in April 18th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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Update: I’ve written a new post about Midori covering a newer version. Midori is a GTK web browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine. It’s nowhere near as polished, feature-rich, or stable as browsers like Firefox and Konqueror, but Midori is certainly usable. It is renders most websites perfectly, and even works with Gmail. The [...]

How to Install Fonts in Ubuntu 8.04

Published in April 17th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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Due to GVFS replacing GNOME-VFS in the GNOME desktop environment, in Ubuntu 8.04 my preferred way of installing fonts doesn’t work anymore. In GNOME versions prior to 2.22 you could navigate to fonts:// in the file browser and drag and drop to install fonts. Doing this in Ubuntu 8.04 gives the error: Nautilus cannot handle [...]

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