So, I finally decided to release my computer from the grip of Mr. Bill Gates. I installed the free and fast Linux Ubuntu 10.10 netbook operating system.

If you are connecting your server or desktop through putty and if you press Ctrl-S accidentally it will send Xoff the only way to recover is by pressing Ctrl-Q. (…) Read the rest of How to disable the Ctrl-S (XOFF) keystroke in Putty (34 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop , disable the Ctrl-S (XOFF) keystroke in Putty

Screencast overview of Tim from OSGUI’s Favorites Applications and Games for Ubuntu Linux 10.04 64bit, this is almost the full Kitchen Sink worth of Apps and Games available for GNU/Linux. Tim’s Top Picks for FOSS. Original video production by the www.OSGUI.com Tech Show.

Ubuntu 11.04 will be arriving in less than two months and when it does, there will be reactions. Big reactions.

Peyote is an audio player with friendly MC-like interface.Peyote is designed specifically for work easy with cue sheets.Peyote supports wv ( wavepack ), wav, flac, ape, ogg and mp3 formats. (…) Read the rest of Peyote – Audio player with friendly MC-like interface (99 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011

WOSH (Wide Open Smart Home) is a message-oriented middleware for controlling and automating a smart home. It comes with working services and devices. WOSH is an open multi-platform C++ framework. Its architecture is service (bundles) oriented and designed for distributed (cloud) computing. WOSH ships with library source, many services, and some applications (a server, a [...]

Banshee is an open-source media player, originally called Sonance until 2005.Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players, including Apple’s iPod, Android devices and Creative’s ZEN players.Other features include Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support

RSS feed updates in the indicator area. Features: * Editable, sortable list of feed URL’s * Notification popups of new feed items * Adjustable update timer * Adjustable number of items to show per feed * Option to run on system startup * Mark all items as read / unread * Uses standard XDG desktop directories and Gconf for settings (…) Read the rest of Feedindicator – RSS feed updates in the indicator area (92 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop , Feedindicator deb package , Feedindicator ubuntu Related Articles FoxTester – Install and launch multiple versions of Firefox (0) Rapid Photo Downloader 0.3.2 released and installation instructions included (0) nautilus-wallpaper – Add a “set as wallpaper” entry in context menu (3) glChess now supports themes in SVG Drawings (0) How to change network card speed and duplex settings in ubuntu (3) How to Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) using PPA (18) How to Change The Bootsplash In Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) (13) Photostory – Take a picture of yourself every day, and compile them into a video, showing the story of your life as photos of you (1) Howto Make Link to Filesystem on desktop or panel (3)

Release News Screencast Overview of the Maverick Meerkat 10.10 64bit & 32bit for Ubuntu Linux & Kubuntu with KDE & Xubuntu with Xfce & Lubuntu with Lxde. I show you all of them in this First Look Review. everything is updated, the kernel is better, better support for hardware, less bugs, more polish, new font, [...]

Mozilla Thunderbird is a total redesign of the Mozilla mail component to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. It has many new features, among them the ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them

Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine. (…) Read the rest of Synapse – Semantic launcher (104 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop , install Synapse ubuntu , Synapse ppa , Synapse ubuntu Related Articles Debianpackagemaker – A simple and straight forward ubuntu package maker (2) Super Ubuntu 2008.11 – Ubuntu Based Linux including Your Favourite applications (17) keylaunch – A utility for binding commands to a hot key (1) Howto install eee-control in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)/9.10 (Karmic) (27) nethogs – Net top tool grouping bandwidth per process (2) Timeline – Cross-platform application for displaying and navigating events on a timeline (0) How to get iOS 4 (iPhone OS) to sync with rhythmbox in ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) (18) BAR – Backup archiver program (9) Ubuntu Hardy/Intrepid Intel3945 Wireless (11)

It’s funny that seven years and a bit after Ubuntu came to life in October 2004, people still write about the project in a dreamy wide-eyed way, even mentioning the word “love” in doing so. Naive is the description that immediately springs to mind. More here

FlashVideoReplacer offers several video replacing methods. The original method, which gave the extension name, replaces the video embedded on site, without disrupting the viewing experience. It basically replaces the flash object with a regular video object and streams a mp4 file when available or a flv file. Since version 2.0, FlashVideoReplacer also offers other replacing [...]

TagPlayer is a Boffin like application.

A utility to help rename various files at once, using a text editor. This script will open the list of files in a directory in a text editor (by default, vi)

Are you annoyed with the unneeded Ubuntu on your computer, wanting to uninstall it but have no idea? If so, maybe my experience here helps you to force uninstall Ubuntu from your computer. If you have some knowledge about computers, you will know that you can uninstall Ubuntu in two ways: manual and automatic. First, [...]

Photostory is an application written with Python and using GStreamer and PyGTK.

This extension is meant to create more native Webkit notifications on Linux Operating Systems which use the notify-osd notification framework.

Do you really think you know how to efficiently locate and get a display driver for ubuntu? It’s worth your while to scan the following quick article – it’ll surely have an impact on your present techniques. Most pc users who encounter problems with their windows haven’t realized the fact that what is often to [...]

With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents and Web sites for broken links. It features recursion, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, HTTP proxy support, i18n support, multithreading, regular expression filtering rules for links, and user/password checking for authorized pages. Output can be colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, or a sitemap graph in DOT, GML, [...]