The following guide allows you to wirelessly sync an iPhone with Amarok in Ubuntu 7.10, including:

• adding, editing and playing songs to the iPhone
• creating and copying playlists to the iPhone
• copy songs from iPhone to the Amarok library

It takes less than 10 minutes, and is completely graphical. Read the rest of this entry »

Need to access your Mac files from Linux? Downloaded something on one OS and need to put it on the other? Sharing files between OS X and Ubuntu is easy. The following guide takes 10 seconds and doesn’t involve any terminal usage or extra software.

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Amazon’s new digital music store just launched in the US. Major label music that plays anywhere on any device, for 89-99c per track. 2 of the majors are there at launch, 2 are yet to come, but we found the new Kanye West album and that’s all that matters.

Non-US customers will be pleased to know they can buy and download songs just fine with their Amazon.com account - even if their credit card is from another country. Just enter a non-US shipping address (if you’re not from the US, try ‘AL’ as your state and 36310 as your zip). Amazon will quickly ship a fat box of nothing to the non-existent address, and let you download your mp3s.

Linux users can download individual tracks, and albums are on the way soon. According to Amazon: ‘a Linux version of the Amazon MP3 Downloader is under development, and when released will allow entire album purchases’. We’d prefer to fetch the album zipped via our browser, but the downloader offers a few more options that could be fun.

Although Distrowatch may say your mate’s homemade Linux rules the world, we’ve always been Google Trends fans. When reconfirming that the big three - Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSuSE - are still the most popular Linux distros, we noticed that Ubuntu has reached another milestone entirely.

Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution to overtake Jesus in Google Trends, establishing a firm lead over the bearded one since the end of Q1 this year.

To help explain the results (and to help distinguish the two if you’re confused) we’ve produced following handy comparison chart.

Miro is a tool to discover, subscribe to, and watch high definition video feeds. We’ve been using it for a month, and today we realized we’ve been using it more than Firefox. If you use Linux, and want to be entertained, you want Miro. Here’s why.

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The new VirtualBox brings seamless virtualization to Linux. This puts Linux on par with the Mac - users can run their native desktop but still launch the odd Windows-only program when they need to. The VirtualBox manual doesn’t give much detail on the new feature, so here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly of VirtualBox 1.5

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Despite all the noise made about improving the cross-platform image editing tool, people seem to have missed that GIMP’s own developers are planning on UI improvements.

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Popular Linux desktop application Avant Window Navigator received a large amount of flak for using the same depth effect as Apple’s upcoming release of OS X. But things aren’t always what they seem, and the example proves two important truths about the technology industry.

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Here’s a simple guide to using your existing Windows install inside Ubuntu - and still being able to start it from your hard disk if you need. Unlike previous guides, it takes around 15 minutes and doesn’t require any terminal use.

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