Author Archives: Ayesha .A

How to customize your VLC hot keys!

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VLC is indeed the king of multimedia players, yet light in weight and free. As in our previous post that discussed about the best features of VLC, we mentioned that you can effortlessly control VLC with your keyboard using hot … Continue reading

Canonical abandons ShipIt program! NO MORE FREE CDs

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Canonical has announced, “with some regret” that it is terminating the ShipIt program and for Ubuntu 11.04, users will no longer be able to apply for a free CD claiming “Technology moves on and as we look at ways to … Continue reading

Color it by Numbers – educational software for kids! | Linux

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This article is specially formulated for unixmen readers who like to seek out engaging as well as educational software for their kids. In this post, I will review a coloring software “color it by numbers” available here. The software is simple … Continue reading

FireSSH- A Firefox add-on to run SSH client in your browser

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FireSSH is a free, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Mozilla Firefox. Written entirely in Javascript!, if you are for example under windows and you want to use ssh, the best is to install this firefox  extension.

30 Great tutorials for GIMP

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It is certainly inspiring that a free piece of software gives you so diverse possibilities, comparable to any paid software you can get in the market. In this post I have attempted to collect the best tutorials of GIMP, in … Continue reading

VLC 1.1.8 is released! PPA For Ubuntu and LinuxMint

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VLC 1.1.8 is released, this new release comes with small features and fixing important bugs and a security issues.

Talk to your computer with chrome 11 beta!

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Chrome 11 beta is loading with a handful of amazing features. In this post we will review them briefly! Chrome has introduced support for the HTML 5 speech input API. What does that mean? Developers can now develop web applications … Continue reading

Shotwell 0.9 Released! PPA Ubuntu

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Shotwell 0.9 has been released, this version of the popular digital photo organizer comes with some new features and improvements, extensible plugin framework for Web publishing and slideshow transitions, TIFF support, Improved rendering of underexposed RAW photos and more.

Install Firefox4.0 in Ubuntu via PPA

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Firefox has been released today, if you are an ubuntu or LinuxMint user, you can install the new release via PPA.

A look at Firefox 4!

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Finally Mozilla released its most anticipated Firefox 4! Since its release…. the browser has already been downloaded over 100 million times giving a tough fight to its competitors notably, Microsoft’s IE9 and Google Chrome freshly updated to its 10th version. … Continue reading