You can make MPlayer play h264-encoded video files a lot faster on multicore machines if you graft some libraries from the ffmpeg-mt project into the resulting mplayer binary. We need to recompile for this. First, use Subversion to download the code for MPlayer: svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer Then the code for ff-mpeg svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk… Read More »
If you miss the LibNotify functionality in Mozilla Thunderbird and want top have it in Ubuntu Jaunty, all you have to do is install this AddOn. Right click here, select Save As, download the extension and install it through Thunderbird. Restart the application and enjoy the new notification system that will pop up whenever you… Read More »
A drop-down terminal can save you a lot of time. Always handy, it appears when you press a combination of keys on your keyboard (usually a plain-and-simple F12 key). KDE has Yakuake. Since some people chose to use only GTK-based applications and are GNOME-bound, similar applications for GNOME users would be Tilda and Guake. They… Read More »
To hide the icons that show up on the Gnome desktop, launch gconf-editor and go to apps > nautilus > preferences. Uncheck the box at the right of show_desktop and close gconf-editor.