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List of useful backup Utilities for Linux

Written by Emily Cartman on . Posted in Software

Backup is absolutely necessary. If you think you don’t need backup, wait till a calamity hits and you lose all your data. It might be utter redundancy, but we all just need it. There are several tools for easy backup, … Continue reading

Minitunes 1.0 has been released!

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

Minitunes 1.0 has been released, The new release added a  new search box that allow you to search music in your collection , added  drag’n’drop, which let us to add songs or entire albums simply by dragging them within the … Continue reading

Super boot manager – Great tool to Manage Burg, Grub2 and Plymouth in Ubuntu

Written by Ayesha .A on . Posted in Linux tutorials

The SBM is a gui based on buc with the main aim to manage Grub2, Burg and Plymouth.  Using this tool you can install and configure Burg,  change burg theme using many beautiful themes from a  gallery and more.

Minitube 1.4.3 is Released! | PPA Ubuntu

Written by Ayesha .A on . Posted in Software

Minitube 1.4.3 is Released! This is a bug fix release that comes to fix some important bugs in the previous version. like  videos not starting, especially in languages different than English.Hide toolbar and playlist in fullscreen on mouseleave , Fixed … Continue reading

Installing Gnome Tweak Tool on Natty

Written by Convexity on . Posted in Ubuntu

If you’ve been a follower of the Gnome Shell development, you’re most likely aware that there isn’t any ‘GUI’ tool available to customize the interface itself. Some of these customizations may include changing the basic GTK+ theme, or perhaps, switching … Continue reading

3 New IT tools by Start-Ups you need to watch

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in News

IT tools are critical to operations of small as well as large organizations. As new technology and innovation merge, newer tools emerge enabling complex computations to become smoother, swifter and secure. Most new IT tools are developed in domains such … Continue reading

Pidgin 2.7.11 is releaed! | PPA Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

Pidgin 2.7.11 has been released, this is a maintenance release that includes a variety of bug fixes and updates. Some of the bugs that has been fixed in this version,we list: MSN: Fix bug that prevented added buddies to your … Continue reading

Mediadownloader- Search, watch and download items with Google Image and YouTube

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Software

Mediadownloader is an opensource software that lets you search, watch and download items with Google Image and YouTube. It grabs video streams while browsing with firefox (only linux). Videos can be converted automatically using ffmpeg.  

Shutter 0.87 is released!

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

Shutter 0.87 is released!  this new release comes with many new features and fixed bugs, some of the great features of this release is the  capability of resizing window to a specific size before capturing – and restoring the initial … Continue reading

Gimp Paint Studio(GPS)- A collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets for GIMP

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Software

GPS (Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP.