You can spice up the look of your GNOME desktop by putting on a killer theme and match it with really cool Linux wallpaper. To greatly enhance its appearance, you will also need some equally good-looking set of icons. I’m going to share to you some of my favorite set of icons.
Read more »10 "Really Cool" Icon Sets for Ubuntu/GNOME Desktop
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Create a Bootable USB Drive or Memory Card
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UNetbootin allows you to easily adapt a Linux CD image to boot off of a USB flash drive or memory card. Have a system without a CD drive? Create a bootable USB drive to run your Linux installer.
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Easy file uploads with Droopy
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Suppose someone wants to send you a large file. They could try to send it via email, but many email servers impose limits on file size. They could try sending it over during an instant messenger or Internet Relay Chat session, but that's slow, as the file actually gets transferred twice: once to the chat server, then to your machine.
Read more »Mozilla Firefox browser gets security boost
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Carnegie-Mellon University Monday announced it's making available a free add-on to Mozilla Firefox 3.0 that's intended to boost browser security.
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10 fundamental differences between Linux and Windows
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Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Jack Wallen has distilled the key differences into one list.
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World's first open source stompbox arrives
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A stompbox claiming to be "the world's first open source digital guitar effects pedal" is now shipping, after over a year of development. The pedal, the OpenStomp Coyote-1, allows users to create their own effects by writing programs for the pedal's operating system, and uploading them to the device via USB.
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Buddi - Personal Finance & Budgeting Program for openSUSE
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Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. Designed to keep the software simpler but still effectively help users to manage their finances. Buddi is released a free opensource software released under GNU GPL license. Buddi will run on almost any computer which has a Java virtual machine installed.
Read more »25 killer Linux apps
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We all know that Linux is about choice. Everyone has the choice of what they use and how they use it, provided they have access to a tame hacker with suitable programming skills. A consequence of this is that there's a huge range of software out there.
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Flock social networking Web2.0 browser in openSUSE
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Flock Web browser is a new kid in the block of browsers built on the codebase of Mozilla Codebase, Needless to say, this project is powered by Mozilla. Flock web browser is built in Web2.0 and social networking as the core theme of the browser
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New Linux-powered Kindle on its way
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The Kindle, Amazon’s Linux-powered electronic paper book will have at least one new version out for the 2008 holiday season.
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A modest Linux USB suggestion
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Did you know that there are two basic kinds of USB 2.0 drives? I didn’t. But, now thanks to Robert L. Scheier’s article, Not all USB drives are created equal, I now know that are significant differences between drives. And, in particular those differences matter a lot to live USB capable Linux distributions like Fedora 9.
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OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks Part III
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If you've read through Part I and Part II of this tutorial series, you ought to have plenty of templates and clip art for OpenOffice.org (OOo), be typing grammatically-correct papers, and know a few more tips and tricks to ease your transition from Microsoft (MS) Office.
Read more »An open source alternative to laptop LoJack
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Car owners know all about LoJack, the service that can use a hidden box to help find your car when it’s lost or stolen, and techies know that it’s also available for laptop computers. But what do you do if you’d really rather not use proprietary software? Or maybe you’d just rather not let a centralized server, which could get hacked, to have info about you and your laptop?... Enter Adeona
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Get Pidgin 2.5 for Ubuntu Hardy
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Pidgin 2.5 will be included in Ubuntu Intrepid, but some of us won’t want to wait that long to start using it. Luckily we won’t have to wait, or compile the source code, as GetDeb already has Debian packages (.debs) you can use to download.
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10 must-have Linux (and not only) cheat-sheets
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Need a quick reference card? Here you have a list you can choose from:
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