Geany is a lightweight text editor for Linux based on the GTK2 toolkit. Geany supports internal and external plugins, and it excels as a source code editor, since it includes basic integrated development environment (IDE) functionality. Here's an introduction to using Geany's built-in features, including the IDE and built-in development capabilities.
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Download videos from Youtube,Google and other video sites in Ubuntu
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Clive is Command-line and fullscreen console program that extracts videos from YouTube, Google Video and other video sites. It supports embedded video extraction, and can be used with an external encoder (e.g. ffmpeg) to re-encode the extracted videos to different video formats (e.g. avi, mpeg, flv).
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Trackmania United + Forever on Linux with Wine!
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It's the ultimate version of TrackMania and it's designed to provide a maximum of content and gameplay possibilities to players. With this edition, you can enjoy racing with players around the world whether they own United Forever or the free game Nations Forever. TrackMania United Forever also allows you to play solo or online on the 7 incredible TrackMania environments.
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A case for text-based DVD rippers
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At a time when graphical DVD rippers and encoders propose to make the backing up of your movies just a click away, a text-based application may actually be the best tool for the job.
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In A State Of Flux
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I CAME quite late to the Fluxbox party, and now I am here I wish I had arrived earlier. Fluxbox is a lightweight window manager for the X window system used by Linux distributions. When I say “lightweight”, I mean it is not resource-hungry like, say, the KDE and GNOME desktop environments, and that once it is installed on your machine and configured properly, it is both stable and very quick.
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The Difficulty Divide Redux: Linux vs. Windows
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Previously, I introduced my theory of the Difficulty Divide. It’s a concept that I’ve used for several years when talking about why I use Linux, and why some people may give up on it. I also promised that I would present on how I’ve modified it in recent years to reflect the current state of things. Before I do that though, I think some clarification is in order.
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HP Mini-Note a Sound Choice
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HP's entry into the sub-Mini-Notebook arena comes in the form of the HP 2133, a sleek-looking, brushed aluminum finished, lightweight but well built beauty. You can see the attention to detail in the engineering when you first open it up. From the sturdy hinge to the scratch resistant display and connectivity options you'll find just about everything you would expect in an ultra-mobile laptop.
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Auto-Hide Your Mouse Pointer When Idle With “Unclutter”
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The purpose of Unclutter is very simply. From the man page: "unclutter removes the cursor image from the screen so that it does not obstruct the area you are looking at after it has not moved for a given time."
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Using UbuntuTweak to keep programs up to date
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I use UbutuTweak to help me set options in Ubuntu, including my GTK login splash. But while reading the latest posts on a thread in the Ubuntu Forums about installing Google Gadgets I came across a post that surprised me.
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A Journey to Ubuntu
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My first Linux installation took place circa 1992, I pulled my hair out for a month or so while I was trying to figure out how to install this very interesting and FREE operating system. I considered myself an intermediate level user who at this point was trying to learn how to program using the C programming language. Why not C++?
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Firefox Users Most Secure on Internet, Study Reveals
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Mozilla Firefox fans might rest a little easier these days after a study released Tuesday revealed that its users are most secure on the Internet.
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The Swiss Army Distro - Might Someone Finally Be Getting It?
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One of the things that's bothered me to no end for quite a while is the ridiculously huge number of Linux distributions out there. 350+ active or semi-active and nearly 200 dead distros is rather pathetic in my opinion.
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Google is doing WHAT?
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ts motto is 'Don't do evil' -- but it looks like anything and everything else imaginable is pretty much fair game
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KDE4 KWin has new Cube plugin!
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The Linux Saga: Preface
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This story begins – as usual – long long time ago, far far away, behind the Ocean, in United States of America, in Bell Laboratories building. In that firm a computer stood. Nothing special about it, but in 1969, when those events started, computer wasn’t commonplace at all.
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