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Archive for January, 2009

Sockso Personal music server in openSUSE to share music with friends

Posted by admin on 31st January 2009

Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server for everyone! It is a simple and easy to use music server with which you can share your own collection of music with frends online or with people using computers in your home network. A simple GUI on your PC allows you to setup you collections users, webserver settings etc and for the users it is a simple web interface to register or logon and create use playlists and play the music from your collection. If you are behind a firewall at home and are trying to share it over the internet then you need to open the port on which you are sharing your music (default:4444).

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Convert DVDs to xvid (avi) using dvd2xvid in opensuse

Posted by admin on 28th January 2009

Dvd2Xvid is free opensource simple easy to use utility to convert DVDs into Xvid video formats. dvd2xvid is a simple GUI for MEncoder aimed at converting DVDs to xvid formats.

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PC Man File Manager for Linux in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 22nd January 2009

PC Man File Manager is a simple elegant fast light weight and a very user-friendly File manager for Linux with tabbed browsing and support for file drag n drop between the tabs.

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Gparted – Gnome Partition Editor in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 20th January 2009

GParted, GNOME Partition editor is a free opensource Partition Editor for Linux and can be used as a Live CD to boot a system and edit the Hard Disk partitions. GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
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DivFix++ – Preview/Fix broken AVI files in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 20th January 2009

DivFix++ is a free opensource GUI utility to repair/fix broken AVI files.  DivFix++ is designed to repair broken AVI file streams by rebuilding index part of file. This is very useful when trying to preview movies which has no index part. DivFix++ can check AVI files for errors,strip the index of the AVI files and ofcourse fix AVI files with errors. DivFix++ also has a CLI interface that can included into scripts and perform batch checks or fixes in the background. DivFix++ is a complete rewrite of the original DixFix and is a multi-platform software as it is written by cross-platform API, wxWidgets.

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