Switching between applications running in the background in your current tty is no longer a problem with this tutorial. Here’s a quick tutorial for how to retrieve jobs to the foreground of your current environment. Continue reading
Weekly development release wine 1.3.34 has been released and available to download. Wine 1.3.34 brings many JavaScript improvements, more Microsoft Visuall C++ runtime functions and several bug fixes. Continue reading
The last stable release Mozilla Firefox 8 is now available for Linux, Android, MAC OS X, and Windows. Firefox 8 for desktop and mobile devices which known as Fennec as well, both brings many enhancements, performance improvements and new features. Continue reading
chown is a Unix/Linux command for changing files and folders ownership.chown become really handy if you want to change the owner for many files or folders using the command line. Continue reading
System Load Indicator is a quick way to keep monitoring your machine CPU, memory, swap, network download/upload speeds, hard disk read/write traffic, and overall load in your system. Continue reading
Simple and Quick way to easily change filenames or folders to lowercase or uppercase using simple nautilus scripts. These scripts become really handy to easily change lowercase or uppercase to many files or folders at the same time. Continue reading
Illumination software creator allows you to easily create software visually without using single code or having any programing skills. Support cross platforms Linux, MAC OS X, and Microsoft windows. Continue reading
If you are a StatusNet user or Identi.ca user you will like to try StatusNet Desktop application, with StatusNet Desktop you can easily check your friends notices, replays, your inbox, personal time line, search on public time line, and connecting multiple accounts for Status.net or Identi.ca. Continue reading
I found this script really handy to convert Ogv to Flv directly, I thought to share it with you guys. helps you to quickly convert out Ogv files to flv with different resolutions.
Download and install Ogv to Flv Converter 1.3 check the installation instructions there.
after you done the installation simply right click on the file you want to convert and select script then convert from ogv to FLV 1.3
then it will ask you to select required resolution for the Flv output file
it will take a while then comes a successful message to inform you that the process done. Thanks “Siafu Linux” for this simple tool.
That’s it for now.
LXDE is really lightweight desktop and that what this desktop name stand for, a lot of distributions right now using LXDE desktop, if you was a windows user you will feel it looks similar to it a little bit. But this is not the idea, LXDE comes with a lot of integrated packages with it for file manager “PCMan file manager”, and music player LXmusic, and many other packages.
LXDE menu panel
File manager for LXDE
Music player and themes manager for LXDE Desktop, also you will be able to change themes and icons
Installation process:
you download it and install it from LXDE website This way recommended to other distribution or
for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Go To Terminal and type:
then it will take some time for the installation process
after the Installation over, Log out and log in with LXDE Desktop
Enjoy LXDE on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
That’s it for now.
it’s quite good to take control of your machine using your phone with bluepad application the idea of the application two packages 1st one installed on your distribution for example Ubuntu 10.04 and the 2nd one the phone and will list the supported phones for this application.
Using Bluepad on your phone will let you to do a lot of things to control you machine such as control multimedia files for playing audio and movies files, presentations files for open office, even games you use this application as game pad.
check this video show how Bluepad working
Here some screenshots
This is the supported devices for BluePad
For more information about Bluepad follow this link
Inform Bluepad community if you tested this application on other devices listed up there.
That’s it for now.