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."

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.

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.

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).

LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It’s not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don’t tightly integrate every component.

Ok, the talk lately of cute likening of Linux to other areas and items is interesting but still not getting through to many folks. Here's the guts of it. Linux is, not is like, but IS, a tool.

After reviewing Amarok, a great music player, I’m going to talk today about Rhythmbox. Rhythmbox is the default music player for Ubuntu, so it deserves a little review. I recently installed Ubuntu on a new Laptop and this time, instead of installing Amarok, I gave a little try to Rhythmbox

Getting your collection of pictures into a great-looking Web photo gallery on your Website can be easy. In this "Cooking with Linux", you'll learn about some fantastic tools that let you get the job done with real style. Fire up your Linux desktop and smile!