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Twidge is a command-line, full-functional Twitter client. It supports posting updates, retrieving information, and excellent integration with the Unix shell scripting environment via piping and well-formatted output. Twidge is a tool for interacting with microblogging sites such as Twitter and identi.ca. It can be used to: Simply update your own status and following your friends… Read More »Twidge: a full-functional command-line Twitter and identi.ca client

How to convert our computer screen on to a digital electronic whiteboard, under Linux, could not be simpler. Only need a knob for Wii (Nintendo Console), an infrared emitter (such as a remote control), and the software for it (see the “Linux electronic whiteboard“). Download list: Here is the list of available packages and versions… Read More »Electronic whiteboard for Linux (ubuntu)

Most of us run multiple Operating Systems on our PC’s and are connected to LAN with machines running different Operating Systems. Now, Linux even though is sort of immune to viruses (there are few viruses, and Linux can get infected ) most of Desktop Linux users don’t need Anti virus tool, but there are people… Read More »Scan for Viruses under Linux with AVG Free Antivirus

Get APT anywhere Have you ever felt that there is no life without APT? Well, if you’d suddenly lost conection to the internet, how would you install new packages? What about dependencies? You’ve just finished installing Ubuntu and configured it to a rad look, with all your favorite applications? For some reason you now have… Read More »APTonCD : Get APT anywhere, Create local removable repository of downloaded packages

As news that a series of powerful earthquakes were shaking the coast of Mexico in Baja, Calfornia, no doubt researchers all across the globe were keeping a watchful eye on the data as it rolled in. Many geological research facilities around the world use or are in the process of developing open source software and… Read More »Open Source Tools Help Earthquake Researchers Stay a Step Ahead

Links is a graphics and text mode web browser, released under GPL. Links is a free software. Links runs on Linux, BSD, UNIX in general, OS/2, Cygwin under Windows, AtheOS, BeOS, FreeMint. Links runs in graphics mode (mouse required) on X Window System (UN*X, Cygwin), SVGAlib, Linux Framebuffer, OS/2 PMShell, AtheOS GUI Links runs in… Read More »Links: a graphics and text mode web browser

10.1 Naming Windows (Titles) You can customize each window’s name in the window display by setting it with one of the title commands. Normally the name displayed is the actual command name of the program created in the window. However, it is sometimes useful to distinguish various programs of the same name or to change… Read More »Screen : 10 Window Settings

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms. ELinks is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License.… Read More »ELinks – Full-Featured Text WWW Browser

I found this interesting post by jeremy on KDE It seems as though time is flying by and it was only just yesterday when KDE 4.0 was released and stirred up quite a bit of controversy in the Linux world. Now the latest issue of the popular desktop has arrived in version 4.3. While a… Read More »KDE 4.3.0 (Caizen) Released: Stable, Fast, but Still Not Perfect

Various Usb Camera Chips Support (Sunplus, Etoms, Conexant, Z-star ~ Vimicro, Sonix, Zoran, IcMedia ~ TransVision based): Spca5xx Linux Kernel module. At the moment, manufacturers of usb bridge and camera sensor did not help them. The driver is the result of reverse engineering the protocols and functionality provided by these chips(Sunplus, Z-star/Vimicro, Sonix, Etoms, Conexant,… Read More »Linux kernel webcams Driver for almost every webcam

Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.8 is released. It doesn’t seem to have introduced any new features, but it have improved the Third Party Sources. The number of PPA source from launchpad.net is increasing. A lot of new and updated applications have their PPA source, it’s really useful for users. Ubuntu Tweak includes a lot of popular PPA… Read More »Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.8 released: improved PPA

Problems using WebCam in Skype. I installed Skype on Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bits). After installing, i found that the color webcam display looked ”green”. So I began to investigate the matter and found a solution. To view the webcam properly in Skype use this piece of code: $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

The two methods  below doesn’t work now. Please see http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/11/how-to-download-and-install-skype-for_3060.html for a successfull installation of skype on ubuntu.  I have provided two methods. Please do comment which one is successful. Follow these steps to install skype in ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit).         First add:            deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free        to your… Read More »How to install Skype on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. Greatest featuresYou might be wondering what makes Irssi such an easy and comfortable client to use: Autologging Irssi will automatically log any channels, queries or special windows that you want. The logfiles will be separated per… Read More »Irssi 0.8.13 released: IRC from console (terminal)

I found this in the ubuntu documentation. Tasksel is an installation system that is an integral part of the Debian installer; it is also included in Ubuntu. Tasksel groups software packages by tasks and offers an easy way to install all the packages needed for that task. It provides the same functionality as using conventional… Read More »Tasksel: an installation system for ubuntu (debian)

These are NOT FINAL! THEY ARE ONLY FOR BRAINSTORMING/EXPLORATION! Initial Theme Mockups for Firefox 4.0 Version A – Tabs-on-Bottom Possibly add a Bookmarks widget as an upfront replacement for the Bookmarks menu/Bookmarks toolbar (option to turn those on would remain). Version B – Tabs-on-Top The more contentious Tabs-on-Top concept. Positives Save Vertical Space Efficiency/Remove Visual… Read More »Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Theme Mockups

Looking for an application that would allow you to take notes, draw sketches and insert images, it’s like i have found for you – Jarnal. Jarnal is an Open Source platform and written in Java, similar to Windows Journal. Supports collaborative writing, a feature that allows multiple authors to edit a single file in real… Read More »Jarnal: Equivalent to Windows Journal for linux

I found this native emulator for GNU / Linux called lxdream. lxdream is a new Sega Dreamcast emulator for Linux. To install simply download the file you need for your distro from this link You can also download through the official repositories. For UbuntuFirst edit the list by entering the terminal and typing: $ sudo… Read More »lxdream: Dreamcast emulator for Linux

For this, the easiest way is to use one-click install. Once installed, go to YaST, and as root user remove all matters related to NetworkManager: Afterwards, go to Network Devices> Network Settings, which warns us that the network is currently controlled by NetworkManager and …. Click OK. Changes to the Traditional Method with ifup option… Read More »Wicd on openSUSE 11.1

Here we have created a launcher for applications, operating through the terminal, this may disadvantage those who wish to launch or create links to these applications.To do this follow these three steps: 1. Create a launcher with the terminal of our choice:For example, my favorite is terminal Xterm and I run Moc:The command would look… Read More »Create launcher for applications operating through the terminal