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This week I got updated my phone to the HTC Desire. It's a great phone and I was happy when I discovered that I could link my contacts to their Facebook profile so that their photos and information will appear in my phone book. My happiness was short… more »

Last week when I was bored I decided to play around with my Eee PC and was trying to think of a cool use for the built in webcam. If you haven't seen an Eee PC then the webcam has been placed above the screen so it points at the user when the lid has bee… more »

Due to MP3 being a patented format and Ubuntu's policy of not allowing patented software in their default installations K3b isn't able to burn music CDs from MP3s out of the box. Luckily adding MP3 support is very simple and only requires one extra pa… more »

If you have installed Banshee from the Ubuntu repository then chances are the version you have is out of date. It may run fine but be missing useful features or support for your MP3 player. These things are obviously worth having if you are a frequent us… more »

Since my last post I realised that the file sizes of each FLAC file was about 8 times larger than MP3. As I am ripping my entire CD collection using FLAC would fill up my hard drive very quickly. After a bit of research I found that ogg-vorbis was an… more »