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A Geek’s Guide: How To Pimp Your Car With Linux

Author’s note: I was intending to research and write a piece on how Linux is being used as an mp3 player in cars. I’ve owned a Linux based mp3 player for six years. I was assuming it was not the only solution. It’s not, but as of the fall of 2008, buying a Linux-based mp3 [...]

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Free, Professional Music Production: A Linux Introduction

People who either dabble or work in computing enough are probably used to the idea that some operating systems are better than others as creative platforms; Mac OSX generally seems to be the preferred place for video editing, thanks to the likes of Final Cut Pro. They’ve also got the fantastic GarageBand program for audio [...]

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Pimp your Amarok: 13 Scripts You Should Know About

Amarok is a very intuitive and user friendly music player, it makes playing music on your PC even more fun. It has tons of options that would put any other player to shame. Right out of the box it can fetch lyrics, album covers from Amazon, and artist bios from Wikipedia! Anyhow these features are [...]

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Downloading Music the 1337 Way!

NOTE: This howto is for Linux users. If you are a Windows user go pay someone $40 and then another $15. Good luck. So you are at work and really want a song but just can’t get it because torrenting at work is blocked or could really get you in trouble? No problem, why not [...]

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HOWTO: Linksys WMP54G PCI Wireless Adapter on Ubuntu (Gutsy)

I have a Dell sitting in my living room with a Linksys WMP54G PCI wireless adapter installed. The adapter worked just fine under Feisty. I did an upgrade to Gutsy on the 17th, just 1 day shy of its official release, and to my horror the adapter stopped working!! No Internet connection for me.

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