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Install Wine on Ubuntu 9.04 |
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Three approaches to putting Wine on your Ubuntu system...
decided to put up this guide which shows how to install the latest Wine release in Ubuntu 9.04 using 3 different methods. The default Jaunty repositories come with Wine 1.0.1, but the latest release is 1.1.24 and a new version is available every two weeks, so here is a tutorial which explains how to get the last Wine release in Ubuntu or Kubuntu Jaunty. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9985 | -Ray, June 22, 2009 |
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Steganography Tools |
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Hiding information in plain sight...
Steganography is the technique of hiding information within some format in a way that makes it difficult to detect by one who doesn't know it's there. In the computer age, steganography has become quite advanced and allows for information to be hidden in all types of data files, such as images, documents, and space on a hard disk. Learn how potential attackers could employ this technique, and gain some insight on steganalysis, the detection of its use. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9925 | -solrac, June 9, 2009 |
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Linux Find Command Examples |
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Fifteen examples of the find command...
Apart from the basic operation of looking for files under a directory structure, you can also perform several practical operations using find command that will make your command line journey easy. In this article, let us review 15 practical examples of Linux find command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9921 | -Ray, May 12, 2009 |
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The Plasma desktop shell of KDE 4 |
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| KDE, the K Desktop Environment, is a free software project based on a desktop environment for UNIX®-like systems. Learn how to build small but extremely useful applets for Plasma -- the new shell for the K Desktop Environment -- starting with a handy memory monitor applet. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9881 | -solrac, June 15, 2009 |
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KDE 4.3 Review |
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An early look at KDE 4.3...
First visible change concerns the different presentation style of the search results in KRunner. Previously these were presented ‘checkerboard’ style, now however, they are simply listed out. Interestingly, I haven’t found any setting to make it work ‘old style’. However KRunner has an impressive list of available plug-ins expanding its functionality, which is cheering us up. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9866 | -Ray, April 12, 2009 |
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Top Linux Applications |
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Here is a brief overview of ten 'must-have' Linux apps. I don't need most of them, but everyone probably needs a few...
Firefox. Total love/hate relationship with the browser. Despite finding it becoming more bloated with every release, I know every time I browse to a page with it, unlike Opera, it will not toss up some stupid compatibility error at me. That and the extensions are highly addictive, despite me keeping only two of them to avoid bloating my browser. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9859 | -Ray, July 18, 2008 |
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SMILE: Linux slideshow video creator |
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| SMILE, Slideshow Maker In Linux Environnement is a free opensource slideshow creating tool for GNU/Linux, although it also works on Mac OS/X. SMILE helps to create video slideshows from images, that can be played on almost all medias. The numerous features and the simplicity of use make it possible to create dynamic and rich slideshows in just a few clicks, without having to worry about technical issues or complicated settings. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9842 | -Susenator, August 21, 2008 |
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Screen: Manage multiple sessions on one terminal |
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| Screen is a program that allows you to have multiple logins on one terminal. It is useful in situations where you are telnetted into a machine or connected via a dumb terminal and want more than just one login.screen-profiles includes a set of profiles for the GNU screen window manager. These profiles are quite useful on server machines which are not running a graphical desktop. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9841 | -gg234, June 16, 2009 |
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Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs in Debian 5.0 |
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| MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9830 | -gg234, May 22, 2009 |
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Digiband: Drum, Guitar Simulator |
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| DigiBand is a full home version Drumming/Guitar simulator. It isn’t just intended to be a simulator, but a uniquely refreshing new experience. It is much different than simulators already out there. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9829 | -Susenator, February 12, 2009 |
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Swiftfox: A faster Firefox |
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| Swiftfox is yet another free browser which is an optimized build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The browser is fully compatible with any existing themes, extensions for Firefox. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9827 | -Susenator, May 15, 2009 |
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RealPlayer 11 available for Linux |
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The RealPlayer 11 for Linux and its underlying fully open source Helix Player 11 are now both available. The RealPlayer 11 for Linux has many new features including support for playing Windows Media content on Linux. There is an integrated Playlist Editor and support for Perfect Play (Superbuffer). ALSA and surround sound playback are now supported also.
You can download the new RealPlayer for Linux from real.com
You can download Helix Player 11 (RPM, BIN and Source) from the Helix Community Downloads page read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9826 | -Umakanth Puppala, April 17, 2008 |
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24 Netbook apps |
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These applications are all open source...
Eighteen short months ago, Taiwanese manufacturer Asus debuted the Eee, the netbook that launched the latest craze for small, lightweight, inexpensive laptops. When the original 350,000 units – all equipped with Linux – sold out in just a few months, the open source community rejoiced.
And then they got to work – creating new open source apps specifically for the Eee and similar netbooks. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9819 | -Ray, May 2, 2009 |
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Free FPS Linux Games |
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Open source and free First Person Shooter games that run under Linux...
I have collected some quality free/open-source first-person shooter games. From this list, I have only tried ActionCube, which I really had fun playing with. Hence, I would love to try all of these games someday. Just a little warning to parents though; most of these games are indeed violent. You better let your little kids sleep first before splurging with these games. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9819 | -Ray, October 8, 2008 |
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Free versions of Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman fonts |
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Red Hat releases free replacements for Windows core fonts...
Available for immediate download, the Liberation fonts are intended to let users share documents between free operating systems and Windows without involuntarily reformatting the documents because the fonts don't match. The Liberation fonts are designed to be metrically equivalent to the Windows core fonts, with each letter occupying the same horizontal space as its equivalent in a proprietary font.
Red Hat has a long history of interest in high-quality fonts that allow interoperability between operating systems. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9797 | -Ray, May 19, 2007 (Updated: May 20, 2007) |
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Pytube: Video downloader and converter for Ubuntu Linux |
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| PyTube is a GUI for various command-line tools such as:youtube-dl, sox, mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg and others. It allows you to resize, rotate, apply an external mp3 into a video, generate a 10 to 30 seconds mp3 ring tone. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9785 | -gg234, September 16, 2008 |
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Highlight Domains for SSL websites in Firefox |
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| When you visit a Secure website in Firefox chances are that the FavIcon for the website is replaced with a Green bar with the details of the company. This is because of the default properties in Firefox to display detailed information of the website from the Extended Validation Certificate on the website. However, if the website doesn’t host a Extended Validation certificate then the website URL (link) in the address bar is not highlighted or in otherwords shows as a normal website URL. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9774 | -Susenator, May 28, 2009 |
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cutmp3: Command Line MP3 Editor |
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| cutmp3, as the name implies is a simple command line tool to edit and cut MP3 files without loosing any quality. cutmp3 can edit the mp3 files interactively or selection (start time and end time) can be provided from the command line or even better can be used with a timetable fiile specifiying different start/end times from the same MP3 files. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9763 | -Susenator, May 16, 2009 |
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MOC: Command line audio player |
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Play your music from a text interface...
Based on ncurses, MOC (music on console) is a popular, text-based audio player which can play various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, MP4, WMA and WAV. The release I'm going to talk about in this article is 2.5.0-alpha3, as it comes with Debian Lenny. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9744 | -Ray, April 27, 2009 |
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Linux music apps |
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Short descriptions of ten music-making applications for Linux...
Ardouris “the new digital audio workstation”. It aims to be a professional DAW, and offers features like “multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal.” read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9720 | -Ray, April 10, 2009 |
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