Adobe has released the Flash Player 10 Beta simultaneously for Linux, Mac, and Windows. This version includes performance improvements, new 3D transformations, Adobe Pixel Bender filters, streaming video improvements, and new text layout capabilities.
Websites very likely won’t be taking advantage of these new features until the stable release is out, so Adobe has a page […]

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GNOME’s default text editor, Gedit, includes a powerful plugin system similar to Firefox’s. There are useful plugins available for both programmers and regular users.
Enable, disable, and configure plugins from the Plugins tab in Gedit’s preferences dialog. There’s no need to restart Gedit, plugins are enabled immediately.

A small selection of plugins are installed by default with […]

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I’m close to my goal of being able to manage my iPod Touch completely without iTunes on Ubuntu. HandBrakeCLI (HandBrake’s command line interface) for Linux encodes excellent quality video, and although it runs in the terminal is simple to use.
Previously I was successful in converting DVDs for playback on my iPod using the HandBrakeGTK […]

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Like Adobe Flash and proprietary media formats, playback of encrypted DVDs is something that Ubuntu can’t distribute in the default desktop. Adding support for playing your commercial DVD videos in Ubuntu isn’t a difficult task.
There’s a script included in Ubuntu that can install software for decrypting DVDs, run it by pasting the line below into […]

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GNOME will detect an iPhone or iPod Touch as a camera, and ask you if you want to import pictures every time it’s plugged in.

The Always perform this action doesn’t work for ignoring the dialog, so how can you stop it from being trigged whenever you plug in your iPod? Open System->Preferences->Removable Drives and […]

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