NYPD Siren Sounds
A nice collection of all available siren sounds in a NYPD police car can be found at the NY Times. The “Air Horn” sound going through a horn loudspeaker should give the typical horn sound of ambulances.
Wallpaper Changer
Desktop Drapes Has some problems under Karmic Koala (e.g. the thumbnails are not shown, crashes if you delete a selected image). The list of enabled images is kept in ~/.gnome2/drapes.xml. Wally Seems to not work in Karmic. Wallpaper Tray It is a panel applet which shows a small thumbnail of the current active image. It… Read More »
memup Pop Key
Homepage: http://www.memup.com/ I just bought a 4GB Pop Key in a local supermarket. This device not only works as a simple flash disk but also brings a CD-ROM-Partition with a small security software with it. This just calls for modification… CD Partition After some searching, I found a posting on the usboffice.kr blog. Luckily, the… Read More »
AVM Fritz!Box 7270
Homepage: http://www.avm.de/de/Produkte/FRITZBox/FRITZ_Box_Fon_WLAN_7270/index.php Fritz Fun If you want to receive facsimilies (fax) via your Fritz!Box, you can do that via the internal fax receiver. If you want to send faxes from Ubuntu, you can install the ffgtk-package. The original homepage of the project is tabos.org. With it installed, you will get a new “Fax” printer to… Read More »
PC Speaker in Linux
Enable in Ubuntu If you want some scripts to emit beeps, e.g. because you don’t always have your headphones on, you first have to enable the pcspkr module. This is per default disabled in Ubuntu. To enable it again, do the following: After that, you can play around with the beep program.
Aquire video from DV-camera
If you can’t aquire any video from a DV camera connected via Firewire/IEEE1394, check if you have these symptoms: The reason seems to be a faulty IEEE1394 driver in Windows 7 64-bit. Check the Device Manager whether you have the Texas Instruments 1394 Controller installed. If so, right-click and choose Update driver…, search your computer… Read More »
Rip YouTube videos/audio
The tools you need are described on blog.joff3.com. There’s also the nice youtube-dl package. One thing I noticed: the ffmpeg command there re-encodes the audio which might loose some quality. To just dump the audio off the Flash video, use: This is for 240px videos. All larger ones use AAC format. Use this: If you… Read More »
SIEMENS S1621-Z220-A 🇩🇪
Dieser WLAN-Router wird von Alice unter der Bezeichnung Alice Modem WLAN 1121 ausgeliefert. Die Standard-IP im Auslieferungszustand ist 192.168.1.1. Weitere Informationen gibt’s im alice-wiki.de. Telnet-Zugang Die Web-Oberfläche ist auf’s nötigste kastriert, da Alice die Router via Fernwartung steuert. Die Fragezeichen müssen durch die letzten 3 Bytes der MAC-Adresse des Routers in Großbuchstaben ersetzt werden. Diese… Read More »
iOS Emoji Keyboard
Emojis is the Japanese term for emoticons. Every mobile phone in the Japanese area has a fixed set of emoticons included and they are all compatible between different manufacturers of mobile phones. Apple chose to include them as well, but didn’t use the defacto-standard encoding for them but decided to encode them in the private… Read More »
DealStreet.de 🇩🇪
Vor zwei Tagen kam im TV eine Werbung für DealStreet.de. Dort wurde beworben, wie leicht man doch Schnäppchen machen kann und, dass man Artikel für etwa die Hälfte bekommt, als im Laden. Natürlich hat niemand etwas zu verschenken, also habe ich mich mal schlau gemacht. Spielprinzip Das Prinzip selbst ist auf der Homepage von DealStreet… Read More »