One commonly-stated barrier to Linux adoption is that it looks different to the regular computer environment people are used to. Yet, one of the strengths of Linux over other operating systems is that its user interface can be totally replaced to suit any occasion. Here is how to trick it out like MacOS's Leopard, and trick your friends.
Read more »Katapult - KDE application launcher in openSUSE Linux
Inspired by QuickSilver for Mac OS X, Katapult is an application launcher for KDE designed to allow faster access to applications, bookmarks, and other items. It is plugin-based, so it can launch anything that is has a plugin for. Its display is driven by plugins as well, so its appearance is completely customizable. It was inspired by Quicksilver for OS X.
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15 Linux Music Players - Download your Favorite
I’ve compiled a list of most used Linux based music/media/audio players. The list is not in a particular order, whatever you think is your favorite, mention it in the comments
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3 Classic First-Person Shooter Games for Linux
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
A true classic and one of the most played online first-person shooter games, Wolfenstein: ET was supposed to be released as a new mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but the single-player part of the game was abandoned and it was released at no cost, as a standalone multiplayer game.
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Fun with Linux Commands-I
From now onwards I will be posting 5 Linux commands weekly and mostly targeted to Linux newbies or to those who are not much comfortable with Linux commands.
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3 Best Video Players for Linux: SMPlayer, VLC and Kaffeine
Review three of the most popular video players available for Linux, with screenshots.
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Hands on: Revive an old PC with Linux
A few months ago we looked at running Linux on older machines and how this can make a computer that has been confined to the bottom of a cupboard for a few years useful again.
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5 Gmail Notifiers For Linux
Gmail is undoubtedly the best web-based email around. Unfortunately Google doesn't have any Gmail notifier for Linux. However thanks to the open-source world there are many alternatives out to choose from and whats better is that all of them are better than their windows counterparts and are free. Here is a list to help you chose one.
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The netbook newbie's guide to Linux
Thanks to their design as appliances, you can get down to useful work straight away with any of the new breed of Linux-based netbooks. But sooner or later, a fair few folk come up against the unfamiliarity of Linux.
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Names, Games, and 150k Wardrobes
Bloodmasters, Thousand Parsec, Theme Park Builder 3D, and an Unnamed but lovely looking platform game are the Free Software game goodies for today - 3 nice looking games and 1 for the future.
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Opera 9.60 - Awesomeness, Great Features and a Few Annoying Crashes
I must say that I think Opera is doing a great job supporting its browser on Linux. Even though it's closed-source, it's still one of the most powerful web browsers out there, and each release comes with packages for every major distribution out there.
Read more »GNOME Do - Launcher tool to search and launch applications files and more
GNOME Do (Do) is an intelligent launcher tool that makes performing common tasks on your computer simple and efficient. “GNOME Do” not only allows you to search for items in your desktop environment (e.g. applications, contacts, bookmarks, files, music), it also allows you to specify actions to perform on search results (e.g. run, open, email, chat, play).
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The great Ubuntu experiment
Many months ago, some very non-tech savvy friends where having trouble with their computer. Being someone that does ‘IT stuff’ meant I got called to help out their failing machine.
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Gaming Fropper hit system
This one is freshly unearthed from my archives, its a nifty macro script that helped me win a bet. Fropper is India's leading social networking site, it features a 'Hit' user rating system. The idea of this hack is to increase your hit count by visiting and hitting as many profiles as you can. Web automation Imacros plugin for firefox is used here.
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How to install Picasa 3.0 beta in Ubuntu
Picasa is free photo software from Google. This version is Linux compatible. Picasa won't delete your pictures or put them online without your permission. This is a preview of the upcoming release of Picasa 3 for Ubuntu.
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