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Google Chrome for Android vs Opera Mini

Today is the day! Finally my favourite browser Google Chrome has hit the Android Market; well, when I am already quiet in habit of its rivals...

PlayOnLinux 4.0.16 now can start exe from terminal, support for Desura...

PlayOnLinux 4.0.16 has been released, the new release comes with some exciting now features, improvements and bug fix. PlayonLinux can now start an executable...

Top Linux Distributions, 2012

2013 is just around the corner and it’s time to wrap up the Linux world’s happening for 2012. So let’s start with a most...

Apple orphans Linux CUPS features- handicaps open source printing

CUPS, is the printing standard that open source projects have used successfully to convert desktops and computers to become printer servers, allowing plug-in, modular...

Commercial & Movies built in Blender!

Open source softwares have long been undervalued for their potential, nevertheless today; the scenario seems to be changing in favor of Open source softwares...

[Quick Tip] How To Re-enable Save And Quit Feature In Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a great browser, we all use it. In fact as I type this post am using a Firefox browser. In this...

Setup A Full Featured ITIL Management System Using Integria IMS On...

Integria IMS is a fully featured ITIL management system, featuring a ticketing system, inventory/CMDB, CRM, Wiki, Time tracking and Project management. Integria IMS is...

Pebble. The smartwatch with Linux at its heart!

Do you think the wrist watch era is over and soon the wrist watches will be doomed to the graveyard of floppy disks, cassettes,...

Getting One Time Password for FreeBSD using OPIE

Introduction Secure Shell, or SSH, is a cryptographic (encrypted) network protocol for initiating text-based shell sessions on remote machines in a secure way. This allows a user...

Interview with Jonathan Thomas of Openshot

Openshot is the most successful open source video editing tool right now. On this interview, we meet the founder of the project Jonathan Thomas,...

Rdesktop: Access Windows Desktops Remotely From Linux [Quick Tip]

Introduction Most of you know about rdesktop which is used to view and access Windows desktops remotely from any GNU Linux systems. rdesktop is an...

Cool Indicator Sticky Notes for Ubuntu

Indicator-sticky notes is a very cool and nice application for holding notes compared to that of Windows 7 sticky note software. I am currently installing indicator...

pfSense: Open Source Firewall Distribution

Ok guys, a firewall can be a software or a piece of hardware, but what does it do and why do we need one? Ok...

Installing Cairo Dock 3.2.1 in Ubuntu 13.04

Recently Cairo Dock 3.2.1 (bug-fix version) was released. You can read about Cairo Dock 3.0 in this previous post. Some new features in Cairo Dock 3.2.1...

VLC 2.0 "Twoflower" has been released! PPA Ubuntu11.10 and LinuxMint12

VLC 2.0 "Twoflower" has been released, this  is a major release of VLC that comes with faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware,...

How to Disable/Change Default PDF Viewer in Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox browser comes with a PDF viewer/PDF plugin by default. Here is a simple tip to disable default PDF viewer in your Firefox. Method...

Networking in Python, Sockets

The key to networking in Python is the socket module, which provides a library for making network connections using Python. The socket module is used...

[QUICK TIP] Fix VLC Player Opening in New Windows

Hi Guys, VLC Player as we all know it, is a very good player that rocks our multimedia files for us anytime anywhere, be it...