Convert videos to 3gp, Mp4, Mp3 formats with Mobile media converter in Ubuntu

I have been searching for a cool media converter for my ubuntu box to convert my favourite videos into mobile formats like mp4 and 3gp etc... last week. I ended up with the one called Mobile Media Converter. Here i share my experience with this application.  The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting between popular desktop media formats like MP3, wma, ogg, wav, MPEG video, AVI, wmv, flv, mov and commonly used mobile devices/phones formats like AMR and 3GP...

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python xmlrpc : a simple client server connection mechanism with greater possibilities

A byte of theory . . . XML-RPC is a Remote Procedure Call method that uses XML passed via HTTP as a transport. With it, a client can call methods with parameters on a remote server (the server is named by a URI) and get back structured data. This module supports writing XML-RPC client code; it handles all the details of translating between conformable Python objects and XML on the wire. A byte of surprise . . . Here the xmlrpc library of the python does the magic, by leaving the  programmer...

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python urllib library : the basics

               urllib and urllib2 are Python modules for fetching URLs. It offers a very simple interface, in the form of the urlopen function which is capable of fetching URLs. It also offers a  slightly more complex interface for  handling features like basic authentication, cookies, proxies and soon. urllib2 supports fetching URLs for many URL schemes  such as ftp, http -- for example “ftp” is the URL scheme...

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pgrep command for listing PID's of currently running processes

pgrep is a bash command that looks through the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which matches the selection criteria to stdout.  All the criteria given as parameters to pgrep have to matched. $ pgrep fi          -- List the PID of process names match with "fi".    $ pgrep -l fi          -- Same as above and process name also get             ...

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Setting up CGI-BIN in apache in Ubuntu linux

Defining the CGI... The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a method used for server programming in such a way that, web applications can be equipped with scripting languages like python as their back end, for processing the client requests. CGI are external gateway programs to interface with information servers such as HTTP servers. CGI defines a way for a web server to interact with external 'content generating' programs, which are often referred to as CGI programs or CGI scripts. It ...

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