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Dalle | Tool to put splitted files together

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According to the author, Dalle is a set of utilities to work with splitted files in various formats. But, not only we can put splitted files together, Dalle also allows us to split files in several parts.

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The supported formats are:

  • Astrotite
  • Axman 3
  • Easy File Splitter
  • File Splitter
  • Genérico
  • Hacha (1, 2 y Pro)
  • KamaleoN (1 y 2)
  • MaxSplitter
  • SplitFile
  • Zip

We can download the software as a deb package from the download section of the Sourceforge Website.

Once installed, we can start the programm by executing the following command:

dalle-gtk

Show in Pidgin what you’re listening on Spotify

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Because of a comment we received from Silverwolf, in which he asked us, how to show what you are listening on Spotify, we started a research... and we found a plugin to get it done in Pidgin... (we are still looking for a solution to show what you're listening to on emesene)

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Record calls and conversations in Skype

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Surfing around in the  www we found a little program called Skype Call Recorder that makes it possible to record the conversations we are having with Skype... a really helpful and easygoing software.

We can choose the file type the conversations are saved in (OGG, MP3, WAV), the quality of the recording and the folder the files are saved in. We also can configure the software to start recording automatically our calls.

skype-call-recorder-logo

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Alarm clock on Linux (Ubuntu), “geek style”

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Is there a better way waking up, than listening to your favourite music? If you're one of those guys, that leave their computer running even if they go to bed, this post may be useful for you... We'll use a script and cron to create a "really geek" alarm clock...
We'll start creating the script, that'll be responsible for playing the music files and turning up the volume gradually...
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Control media players via bluetooth

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First we'll need to change our Bluetooth administrator (bluez-gnome) to blueman. So we'll need to add repositories to our source.list, by executing the following command:

echo -e "\n## Blueman\ndeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main\ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

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