#KWPOW : Jay’s Sliders World
Oct 02This weeks picture of the week comes from listener Jay as he shows us a cross-platform setup that would probably rip a hole inside a proprietary universe. However it does make us proud as Jay lines up his Windows phone, his Nexus tablet and his 13 inch Macbook pro running Ubuntu 12.04. Quite a setup if you also consider that Jay manages to “slide” his productivity from OS to OS without breaking a sweat.
Do YOU have a picture you want to share with us ? Feel free to tagg it #kwpow on twitter or shoot us the link via the well known email address.
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Ubuntu 12.04 : Mount that iPad : Play .Avi : No iTunes :-)
Sep 21We are very happy to line up one of our new guestbloggers on Knightwise.com. Its @McVries_ who kicks of the series with a great article on “sliding” from Ubuntu to IOS and hooking up your iPad .. without iTunes .. on a Linux machine.
Ubuntu 12.04 : Mount that iPad : Play .Avi : No iTunes 🙂
iTunes has some disadvantages, and one of them is a rather serious one for any linux user. It just isn’t available. Although some older versions are said to be Wine compatible I have a Windows virtual machine setup to be able to use iTunes (amongst other tasks). But since spotify I don’t sync that much music anymore and for my daily dose of podcasts I’ve dumped iTunes a long time ago. But what about movies? Well, i recently figured out that it’s a lot easier for an Ubuntu user to transfer them to an iPad then for, let’s say, a Mac or Windows user. How? Directly from the Desktop! And in a lot of cases you don’t even need to bother to convert it to a native iOs format. Een .avi or a .mkv plays very well.
The Recipe: An iOs device, in my case an iPad, one USB cable, your computer running Ubuntu and (for example) OPlayerHD Lite (Free as in beer in the appstore).
After connecting your iOs device you will see two mountpoints pop up in your filebrowser. One of them facilitates your photo import and the other one with a name like “Documents from {Username}” is the one we want now. This is the one that will help you ‘inject’ a file in almost any off the applications you have installed on your device. If you open it you’ll see something like this:
And OPlayer is in there as well. (Why do i use OPlayer? It supports .avi, mkv, and dvd-folders, locally and over the network). Double click it’s icon and finally you’ll find a folder called Documents and a folder “Inbox” within. Now just paste the movie you want to watch and watch it dive into your iPad at an enjoyable speed. Start the applicationon on the iPad, browse to the My Documents folder and Enjoy. Offline!
Some caveats: Copying a 8 GB Matroska (.mkv) would prove to be rather pointless, the iPad isn’t hefty enough i found. Take a more modest one, around 2 GB for 90 minutes and it seems to work well. Avi is no problem at all.
Links : oPlayerHDlite
A post by Guestblogger McVries http://www.mcvries.nl A blog about my experiences using an opensource OS while working as a Windows sysadmin, and being the techno advocate for the organization i work for.
@McVries_ Skeptic IT Manager with a liking for open Source.
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Kc307 : "A Sliders workstation"
Aug 12We take a deep technical dive into the “sliders workstation” and how you can “do your computer thing” independant of hardware, operating systems and software and slide from OS to OS. We talk about hardware, browser platform, desktop productivity, communications, entertainment and storage and how to do it between all of your different devices. This is the “sliders 101” of cross platform computing.
Shownotes
- Intro
- Hardware
- Operating System
- Browser platform
- Applification Software to “applify” Webapps
- Extentions
- Office and Wordprocessing
- Google Docs
- Google Apps
- Gliffy
- Mindmeister
- Openoffice.
- Todo :
- Multimedia
- Content Consumption
- Music
- Podcasts
- Downcast IOS (Tablet and Phone)
- Doggcatcher
- Screencasts
- Ted – Revision Three – Kahn Academy
- eBooks
- Calibre (IOS – WIN – LIN )
- Ebook Library on Dropbox or shared partition
- RSS
- Content Creation
- Communication
- Storage
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Portable Storage
- Shared Partitions
- Central File storage (Samba – NasDrive – SSH mounts)
- Offline Life ?
- Gmail Offline Chrome extention
- Googledrive + Dropbox for offline sync
- Signoff
- New Google Voice number for US listeners : (218) 262-9237
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Kc305 : "Running your own home Linux Server".
Jun 14In this episode we give you some ideas and possibilities when it comes to building your own home Linux server. While putting an old clunker back to good use or using a VM, we give you tips and tricks on using the command line, CLI applications, web based interfaces remote desktop sessions or even terminal servers. Let technology work for you and build your own home linux server with this podcast as your loyal companion.
Shownotes.
- What hardware to choose.
- What to consider.
- Installation
- Start out with ubuntu server install
- Set static ip and DNS.
- Choose packages
- Services
- Ssh
- Samba
- MiniDLNA.
- Dhcp. Dns etc.
- Command line applications
- Web based interfaces
- Webmin
- Owncloud
- Apache
- Transmission
- Vuze
- Jdownloader
- Graphical user interface
- Choose your graphical desktop
- Lxde
- Xfce
- Gnome shell
- Unity
- Hook it up to a screen
- Use it as a workstation
- Hook it up to your tv
- Install xbmc
- X-forwarding
- Free nx
- Choose your graphical desktop
- Automating
- Automate scripts with cron
- Signoff
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Desktop porn : Ubuntu 12.04 on my Macbook Air 11.4
Jun 07Time for some desktop porn here : The Ubuntu 12.04 install on my 11.4 inch Macbook Air. Specs are : Stock 12.04, Launcher tweaked with Myunity and some added Conky Dials.
