Recently I released a few wallpapers for Linux Mint and lots of people loved the simplistic design .. Though the techniques was very easy still I got lots of request to create a detailed tutorial on How To create Simple/Funky wallpaper. Since I am a Gimp user, this tutorial will be based on Gimp.. So here I am again writing my second wallpaper tutorial for Gimp..
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Sign & Encrypt your Emails with Thunderbird/Enigmail
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Thunderbird is a great and well know open source email client brought to you by the same group that puts out Firefox. But like Firefox, there’s extensions we can add to it to make an already secure application more secure. Welcome to the world of signing and encrypting your emails
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Best Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts
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Best Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts (both are Firefox extensions). How to modify the look of websites like gmail, google, google reader, last.fm, lyrics and other stuff to make youtube better and some other cool greasemonkey and stylish scripts.
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9 Steps: Make a ultra cool and good looking desktop for your Ubuntu Linux machine in 30 minutes
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A clean install of Ubuntu is not look very slick at all. To be frank, its pretty boring. But relax, if you follow this guide you will be able to get a ultra cool desktop like this one.
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Notebooks. With Linux. Pre-installed.
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Tomorrow morning, I'm giving a talk/tutorial at the IT360 Conference in Toronto. The subject is getting a Linux notebook (or laptop, if you prefer) to do it all
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Language translation from the command line or clipboard
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Web-based automatic translators such as translate.google.com are great for getting the gist of what a document is saying, but it can be cumbersome to have to open a new tab in your browser, load that URL, and copy and paste the text you want to translate into your browser.
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Well, all of our readers can now create contents in Free Software Magazine’s site, starting from now.
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Making Animated GIFs With Free Software in Four Steps
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MPlayer is a pretty powerful tool for processing video files. It has a built-in command line option that will export specified movie frames to a GIF. Such a feature seems like it would make the guide I'm presenting here obsolete, but the problem with the feature is that the resultant GIF looks terrible: too few colors.
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Distribution Release: Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R3
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"...It's a 100% free multimedia operating system intended for music production, graphic design, audio and video edition, and all kind of tasks. It contains an enormous collection of free (as in freedom) programs that can replace Windows or Mac OS X..." -- via http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04827
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Enable Metacity Compositing in GNOME 2.22
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In GNOME 2.22, included in Ubuntu 8.04, the default Metacity window manager has compositing built in. This means that you can get your eye candy effects without switching window managers!
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Forced File System Check After 30 Boot Ups - How to Improve it.
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Ever want to boot up your Ubuntu Linux system really quick to look something up? Sure, I think we all do that from time to time. Hate it when you get the forced file system check because you’ve booted up 30 times? I do.
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Firefox 3 beta 5 reached Hardy’s repositories
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Ubuntu users, Firefox 3 beta 5 (3b5) has reached Hardy’s repositories.
To be able to install the extensions that are not supported by this version of firefox, here’s what you must do to bypass it:
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Play YouTube Videos from the Totem Movie Player
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GNOME’s Totem Movie Player now includes a plugin for searching and playing YouTube videos without leaving the player, and without Flash. It’s installed by default in Ubuntu 8.04, and works fabulously!
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Apturl: Install software by clicking a link in Ubuntu!
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Imagine the next time you are trying reading a great list of Ubuntu programs. One of them catches your eye, and you want to try it. Instead of either using Add/Remove or opening a terminal to install the program, you simply click a link. A message box pops up asking you if you want to install the program, and then you enter your password.
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An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
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"This tutorial an elementary introduction to teach non-programmers how to customize their work environment; it can also be used as an introduction to programming basics. It includes numerous exercises and sample programs; the author also walks you through the actual source code of several GNU Emacs commands. A handy reference appendix is included..."
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