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Posted in Applications on Aug 28th, 2009
After a great article from hak5 I tried to find a good solution to create a personal bootable usb dongle. The best tool with a GUI seems to be UNetbootin a cross platform application that let the user select an iso image bootable from an usb drive. The interface is simple and easy to use [...]
Posted in Applications on Apr 25th, 2009
This is a special post a bit off topic. Because Ubuntu fails so bad to provide a cool and easy way to manage web radio streams ( Amarok, Rhytbox, Songbird … ) I decided to implement a small easy to use web radio. The features are basic : a manager to add/delete radio streams and [...]
Posted in Applications on Apr 9th, 2009
In the past, I presented a list with what I like to consider the best Linux Apps that work in the Ubuntu distribution. But in time I figure out that a single application might not be the swiss knife I once though of. So the list has to be constantly updated and like always I’m [...]
Posted in Applications on Feb 7th, 2009
After you’ve used Ubuntu for a while you gone understand that not all the default applications are updated to the last version. There is a good reason for this : Ubuntu launches a new OS version every six months and in that time, the team tests and looks for any integration errors. However, if there [...]
Posted in Applications on Feb 5th, 2009
A lot of news and feed activity around this topic. But everybody is just announcing with big letters this great new and powerful software, and forget to really look behind the hood. No 1 : Gnome-Do Repository In order to install the latest version you need to add these repositories for Intreprid deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ppa/ubuntu intrepid [...]
Posted in Applications on Jan 25th, 2009
Two very popular Desktop Environments , that are used by two major Ubuntu distributions. Ubuntu uses as default Gnome and Kubuntu uses KDE. If we are to keep the facts straight we need to also take into consideration the versions. Ubuntu OS taken into consideration is 8.10 called (Intrepid Ibex). Ubuntu 8.10 uses Gnome 2.24 [...]
Posted in Applications on Jan 16th, 2009
This list wants to be : a noob best friend. Start using Ubuntu and enjoy these free and easy to use applications. 1.Internet Brower Firefox [mozilla] 2.File manager Krusader [KDE] 3. Instant messager Pidgin [mozilla] 4.Music Player Rhythmbox [Gnome] 5.Torrent Client Deluge [Gnome and Kde] 6.SSH client Putty 7.Terminal application Yakuake 8.Rapidshare download manager jDownloader [...]
Posted in Applications on Dec 30th, 2008
This post is a bit special. A frequent problem I have is the fact that I need to install so much software on my computers and sometimes I used it just once a month or less depending on the task I need to achieve. What Linux lacks is something similar with Google Pack. A simple [...]
Posted in Applications on Dec 22nd, 2008
One of the great innovation in the last months , from my point of view seems to be DropBox. This software has everything you ever wanted : free storage space, public sharing, great interface, ease of use and best of all : Desktop Integration. There are so many good things about this application that I [...]
Posted in Applications on Jan 18th, 2008
A few useful shortcuts anyone can use in a Linux Terminal Window. CTRL+U = deletes the entire current rowCTRL+L = clears the entire screen CTRL+D = exits the terminal or logs outCTRL+R + command = search history for commands CTRL+insert(shift-ctrl-C) = copySHIFt+insert(shift-ctrl-V) = pasteSHIFT+delete = cut esc-. or alt-. = using the previos argument