Tag: InTheShop
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Tiny Tiny RSS: Building my own RSS Reader
I finally setup my TinyTinyRSS server following the guidelines on LifeHacker outlined in this article. The original plan, when Google Reader shut down, was to have my own RSS server and not be beholden to someone disappearing. Next on the list is to find a bookmarking tool that wouldn’t go away. While I have the…
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SetUp Your Own Private Cloud Storage Service with OwnCloud
Currently in the shop I decided that although I use Box, SkyDrive, Dropbox, Ubuntu One, and Amazon, I need a bit more storage and my own control. So I have setup OwnCloud. For an overview of OwnCloud look at this article on Lifehacker. Review OwnCloud’s list of features. I am using Fedora 18 which is…
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WinFF: An Open Source Windows Video Converter
WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg’s, flv’s, and mov’s, all into avi’s all at once. WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 ,…
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Jolicloud: Web Based OS
In the shop on my bench today I am working on Jolicloud The main purpose of Jolicloud is to present a web enabled GUI. Under the hood, it’s based on the Ubuntu long term service release (10.04), and the front end is handled by a combination of the Chromium web browser and a full screen…