Want to loop a video clip or movie on your desktop? I did and found a nice little tool that does just that! Check out this easy howto
Read more »Howto: Loop Movie, Video, and Display Screensaver as Desktop Wallpaper in Ubuntu Linux
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How To Make a Screencast
Learn how-to make a screencast using one of a variety of tools Shawn Powers demonstrates in this video.
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How to make Gnome menus Faster in Ubuntu
If you want to make Gnome menus Faster in Ubuntu follow this procedure
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List of Security Tools Available in Ubuntu
The Ubuntu repositories contain several useful tools for maintaining a secure network and network administration.This security tools include network scanning,attack detection,Virus Detection etc.
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Bacula: backups that don't suck
Good systems administrators know that implementing a robust backup procedure is one of their most important duties. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most complex and least fun. When the phone rings and there's a panic-stricken user on the other end who has just lost a crucial document, you need to be confident that you can promptly recover his missing files.
Read more »In Response to User Demand, Pidgin Forks
Pidgin, the multi-platform open-source IM client that used to be called Gaim, has a lot of fans. The recent version 2.4.0 removed the user's ability to manually resize the input box, and many of those fans got mad.
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OpenOffice.org Extensions: Writer's Tools
One of the perqs of being a journalist is that I often hear about software and events before most people. A case in point is Writer's Tools, an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer being developed by my fellow journalist Dimitri Popov, whose articles about macros have taught me most of what I know on the subject.
Read more »Encode Video for the iPod Touch or iPhone
Now that you have your iPhone or iPod Touch syncing in Linux, how about putting some video on it? These iPods are picky about video formats, but the excellent Avidemux video tool can encode your videos to be compatible.
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Ubuntu Cheat Sheet
With the Ubuntu 8.04 release a few days away, there comes a time when one needs an end-all reference to the system. The time is now, and if you’re an Ubuntu user and liked the original cheat sheet, then do we have a surprise for you
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Eleven Tips for New Xfce Users
Last year's DesktopLinux.com's survey showed Xfce was the third most popular desktop environment. Granted, it was a distant third to KDE's second place and GNOME's first place, but Xfce does seem to be gaining in popularity in the last few years.
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Major Linux Distros Shootout.
Today with increasing awareness of Linux Operating System and Open Source Software developers around the world are now taking the challenge to the next level. Linux is the operating system which evolve with a great speed. Linux is a Unix based operating system which is known for optimum stability and security even in low end systems.
Read more »Media collection software in GNU/Linux
Around three years ago, when I began my adventure with ‘the penguin’, I had been looking for an application to catalog CDs. They were either ugly, or limited in functionality, or simply couldn’t handle all disk types (e.g. DVD)… some other apps were required for installation, and/or involved many “weird” libraries (which I didn’t know what to do about).
Read more »Create a mirror of a website with Wget
GNU’s wget command line program for downloading is very popular, and not without reason. While you can use it simply to retrieve a single file from a server, it is much more powerful than that and offers many more features.
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Exciting arcade action in glorious ASCII!
Low tech games for a high tech world . . . Who says you need a fancy high-end graphics card to play some great Linux games? Heck, who says you need graphics at all? Seriously.
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Wirelessly Sync an iPhone or iPod Touch with Ubuntu
Apple has made it as difficult as they could to sync the iPod Touch and iPhone to any application other than iTunes. As a result, syncing an iPod Touch or iPhone in Linux is still no easy task.
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