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There is a war going on. The rules are not clear, the participants might be slippery, and there is a lot of code involved, but in the end there is a single winner. This war is the CMS competition game and WordPress 3.x, Drupal 6.x and Joomla 1.x are the players.

You need to know from the start that this comparison is not from a strict technical perspective. It’s more like a general overview, and based on experience of building plug-ins with the same functionality for all three of them.
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If you use YouTube a lot you might notice on Ubuntu 10.10 that the browser ( Firefox or Chrome ) is freezing when you click on the full screen button.

In case you have this problem the solution is simple

  • disable compiz
  • create a file /etc/adobe/mms.cfg with this content :
OverrideGPUValidation = 1

Maybe restart the system if it’s not working instantly.

There is one interesting tool you could use to save a youtube video on your storage device. It’s called youtube-dl.
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There are a few scripts out there that run out of the box to convert a mysql database to a postgresql database. Until now I only found two real solutions but both of them have some ups and downs. Continue Reading »

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If you need to convert a youtube video to an mp3 file the swiss knife of audio/video conversion ffmpeg will help you again.
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Joomla has a very interesting base code comparing to drupal and worpress. The first problem I found while working on a
component was : how to save a parameter and make it persistent. I won’t get into much detail regarding what this is because for some of you that had or will encounter it, I’m sure the problem is very clear.
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Radio Playlist for Winamp

This is a playlist for winamp that contains 50 popular radio stations. All you have to do is load the playlist in Winamp and start listening to some good music : Pop , Rock , Ambient , Chill , Dance , Trance , Techno , Hip Hop , Urban ,House and more.
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Google Reader has some hidden gems.
For example you can use the “starred item” feature as a Read It Later alternative.

via Flickr
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Convert FLV to MP3

Update 2010

- If you are interested on a Linux solution read this post : Linux Solution
- If you need to download a Youtube video you can read this post : Download Video
- An update solution for online flv to mp3 conversion can be found at this site Online conversion


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