install: sudo apt-get install get-iplayer

search: get_iplayer [name-of-programme]

download: get_iplayer --get [number-of-programme, ex: 123]

radio: get_iplayer --type=radio digital [name-of-programme]

with subtitles: get_iplayer --subtitles  --get 123

subtitles only:  get_iplayer --subsonly --get 123

Old website: http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer (read more)

My wife needs full access to Mobileme on Linux (Mint, Ubuntu based) because of her work.

I tried User Agent switcher for Firefox, following this post - it didn't work (she couldn't upload).

I tried something similar on Chromium, following some other post - didn't work.

I tried installing Safari 5 on Linux via Wine - didn't succeed.

I tried installing Safari 4 via Wine - I was told that a "newer version is already installed"... (read more)

One can easily install and run Spotify on Linux under Wine. In Ubuntu, sudo apt-get get install wine will get you wine. then download the Windows version of Spotify, right-click on it and in the permissions mark it as executable. Then, simply install it as any other insalation. (read more)

Change number of desktops: right-click on an empty area on the desktop, click on Desktops and then Add or Remove Desktop.

Change keyboard layout (multi-language)

Change layout now (in terminal):

sudo setxkbmap -option grp:shift_alt_toggle gb,gr

Set kb layout permanently (taken from this forum): (read more)

Here below are some applications for Linux that I run almost daily from the terminal. I hope you'll find them useful too.

Ecasound

Sound recording; lately I am in the process of transferring my cassete tapes to mp3. I used to use Audacity, but it just takes too much processing power. Now I use ecasound.

to install the set of useful apps (providing Pulse Audio is the background sound handler)

sudo apt-get install ecasound gnome-alsamixer pavumeter (read more)

previous article: The Perfect Backup Solution, part 1: CYGWIN

This is the second part of the "Perfect Backup" set of articles where I discuss the backup solution for Windows and Linux OS (local and remote) that works perfect for me. Sharing it here in hope that it might be helpful to someone..

The topic of this article is:  offline or local or disk backup for your computer.

To me, perfect backup means this: (read more)

Introduction

I know, having a title like this one is pretty challenging staff. Anyway, 12 years ago I firstly approached a computer, mainly intrigued by its possibilities in music recording. Since the beginning, I realized the importance of a good, solid, reliable - in other words, PERFECT BACKUP. (read more)

This happened after my last update on Xubuntu.

Basically, the solution is to try to boot somehow: either using a live CD or another kernel, if possible.

sudo update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.32-24-generic

(2.6.32-24-generic is the kernel that wouldn't boot; in terminal:  ls /boot to find the list of kernels)

First, add the Medibuntu repository

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

Then, get gnome-mplayer and the non-free-codecs (read more)

Real Player is now in the Medibuntu repository. To activate it, copy and paste this code in the terminal:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

Then, run this code: (read more)