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Winamp Surround Sound 5.1 Speaker Plugin

TK — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:23:50 +0000

With the VL Sound 5.1 Winamp plug-in for Windows 7 and Vista you can get your surround sound 5.1 speaker setup working perfectly. All the other plug-ins I tried made the sound terrible, or you had to pay for them. This is completely free and actually makes the sound BETTER. Don’t waste your time with the others. VL Sound 5.1

Remotely access your music and video collection

TK — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:44:01 +0000

With Winamp Remote you can view your MP3 and/or Video collection from any computer through a standard web browser. Given your upload speed is appropriate you can stream anything from your music collection, which includes Video clips.

You’ll need ports 80 and 554 forwarded on your modem/router for their DirectStream functionality.

Create free ringtones from your own songs

TK — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:22:04 +0000

With Mobile17 you can create ringtones from your own music files. Where ringtone providers will charge you an arm and a leg, Mobile17 lets you upload an mp3/wav of your favorite song, then pick a clip out of the song. It then sends you the file, through a picture e-mail or something similar where you can select it to play as a ringtone. They claim to be compatible with over 95% of available cell phones so chances are you won’t have a problem being able to upload and create your own free ringtones. The wait time can be over 2 hours, but if you donate some money they will give you ‘Express’ credits, or you could always buy a subscription.

See also: Enable MP3 Ringtones On Your LG Scoop AX260 for another free ringtone website.

Fix Undefined video mode number in Ubuntu

TK — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:14:34 +0000

If you’re getting the error message; "Undefined video mode number – Press Enter to see more or space to continue" when you boot up, I just found a quick fix for it while trying to patch the same problem on my machine. Apparently this will also work with the lilo bootloader (check article comments).

It’s a good idea to make a copy of the original "menu.lst" in case you do something wrong by accident. Type:

sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.old

Ubuntu users, open up a Terminal window and type:

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Scroll down the file and you will find something that says vga=791 or some other number. Replace all instances of vga=791 (or whatever it says) to vga=normal

Make sure you change all of them or it may not work.

Save the file and reboot. This should hopefully fix the problem!

lastCollage: Make wallpaper from your Last.fm album covers…

TK — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:28:11 +0000

With this handy little bash script, you can make a wallpaper collage of your favorite albums using the Last.fm (formally Audioscrobbler) service. If you have a Last.fm account, then you already know you need some sort of plugin for your music player to list recently played tracks. With the lastCollage script it takes all your recently played album covers and arranges them in a nifty collage, then saves it as an image file to add as your wallpaper. I must say, it does a great job too. It fades some covers, while making others more prominent. It definitely has a collage feel to it.

Here’s a simple way to get it installed (from the lastCollage website) for Linux users:

mkdir lastCollage
cd lastCollage
wget http://ledazibao.free.fr/lastCollage/lastCollage
wget http://ledazibao.free.fr/lastCollage/parse_pictures.xsl
chmod a+x lastCollage

./lastCollage (To run the script)
** Ubuntu users should type sudo before all commands, exluding cd (just changes current directory).

To see how to change parameters and other stuff, head on over to the official site: lastCollage.