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MakeUseOf » Linux http://www.makeuseof.com Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:00:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Gramps Lets You Print Free Customised Family Tree Charts [Cross-Platform] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/gramps-lets-you-print-free-customised-family-tree-charts-cross-platform/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/gramps-lets-you-print-free-customised-family-tree-charts-cross-platform/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:30:39 +0000 Angela Alcorn http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=157035

At some point in your life, you've probably considered looking into your family tree and making sense of it all. If you're the technical guru of the family, you've possibly also considered how you might digitise all the information your family has collected in order to make a neat-looking family tree to pass around to all the relatives. Gramps is free, open-source family tree making software which makes this part of the process is easy and completely free. Today we'll focus on building the best family tree printouts for you.

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Organize your life with your own private wiki. GNotes is a simple Linux note-taking app that allows you to quickly link one thought to another, turning your research or journaling into an inter-weaving database that's easy to reference. It's your own personal desktop wiki. Wish you were better organized? Start writing things down. GNote is an application you can use to outline and store your thoughts.

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I’m a big fan of voice communication when it comes to gaming. Wearing a headset while gaming adds a social element that makes the gaming experience that much better. While TeamSpeak may have started off as a solution for competitive gaming teams to discuss strategy and tactics in real-time, it has evolved into something beyond the bare essentials. It is used by casual gamers and fierce e-sports enthusiasts alike. TeamSpeak is a great program for talking with your gamer friends.

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]]> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/teamspeak-3-the-original-cross-platform-voice-chat-for-gaming-teams-and-clans-cross-platform/feed/ 0 Should You Use AMD Proprietary Graphics Drivers & How Do You Install Them? [Ubuntu] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/should-you-use-amd-proprietary-graphics-drivers-how-do-you-install-them-ubuntu/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/should-you-use-amd-proprietary-graphics-drivers-how-do-you-install-them-ubuntu/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:01:42 +0000 Danny Stieben http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=158882

If you have an AMD or nVidia graphics card or chip in your desktop or laptop, you have some serious graphics processing power under the hood. However, these highly respected graphics vendors like to keep their secrets, which includes making their drivers proprietary software. Ubuntu and other Linux distributions use open source drivers to make them work. But what’s the difference between the two, and how do you install the proprietary driver in Ubuntu if you decide to use it?

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Regular television sets are a thing of the past. These days, if you set out to get a new TV, it'll likely be a smart TV. That TV will be 'smart' the same way your smartphone is - it's connected and it's extendable. Just like your smartphone, a lot of new televisions tune in to a sizable application ecosystem, adding the imaginings of third-party developers to your television's standard feature set.

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Ever since its invention, the mouse has become an extremely useful tool that makes using a computer much easier to learn when coupled with a graphical user interface. However, some of you may feel like the mouse should be capable of doing more work for you. Then there are some of you who like the keyboard better and may want to be able to use mouse functions without actually invoking a mouse.

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Clementine Music Player Intro

Sometimes you don’t really know what you want until you’re holding it in your hands. There are not-so-resource-intensive music players out there that are bland and there are monster RAM hogs that provide tons of eye candy and aesthetic pleasure. What if you want something in the middle of the road? Oh, hello Clementine! I recently stumbled across this music player and let me tell you: it offers the best of both worlds and there’s no other music player like it.

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If you discover that Windows 8 isn't quite your cup of tea, and you have no feasible path to downgrade, it may be a good idea to dual boot with Linux to have an alternative operating system you can use. For most people, using Ubuntu is an excellent choice because of its popularity, software selection, hardware support, and ease of use. However, if you want to dual-boot, you need to do a few things before you’re ready to enjoy your Linux installation.

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Fellow reader Dado asked us, "How can I run multiple operating systems from a single USB?" This becomes practical if the different operating systems are Live CDs, i.e. designed to access a PC from outside of the computer's own operating system. This can be handy if the native operating system is corrupted through misuse, poor maintenance, or worse, malware. There are several tools that can help you create your multiboot USB stick. We tested three of them: XBoot, MultiBootUSB, and YUMI.

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On April 25th, the newest version of one of the most popular Linux distributions was released -- Ubuntu 13.04, codenamed "Raring Ringtail". Unlike previous releases of Ubuntu, 13.04 doesn't bring extraordinary new visual features which may make some people even more skeptical about this release than others. So what exactly is new, and should you really upgrade?

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Linux gaming rigs? Yup, they’re happening. With Valve’s Steam on Linux and a forthcoming Valve Steambox using Steam to run Linux games, the future is looking up for gaming on Linux. You can even install Ubuntu and Steam on a computer today, plugging it into your TV and using the big picture mode interface. The missing piece of the hardware puzzle is a controller. Luckily, Microsoft’s ubiquitous Xbox 360 controller functions well with Linux.

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There are plenty of features that make Linux special, but one of them that makes it so secure is its permissions system. You can have fine-grain control over all the files in your system and assign permissions to users, groups, and everyone else. The terminal utility "chmod" helps you control all the permissions on your system, so it's vital to know how chmod works in order to get the most use out of this feature, especially if you're planning on building your own Linux server.

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It's increasingly rare, but still occasionally true: sometimes you just don't have Internet access. Whether you're on a plane or your grandparent's place in the country, life occasionally brings all of us to places WiFi and 4G can't reach. With a little preparation, however, you can have the data you need on your hard drive, waiting for you.

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Bloated operating systems bogging your system down? Is waiting for software to load on an older computer ruining your entire freaking life? Try something lightweight. Crunchbang is a minimalist OS built on Debian Linux, but don't worry if you don't know what any of those words mean – it's also easy to use and runs well even on older computers.

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Waste your time the right way - shoot bubbles at similarly colored bubbles, in the hope of freeing the entire board of bubbles just long enough for more bubbles to show up. It's called Frozen Bubble, and it's more than a game. Actually, it's not more than a game. It's a game, and for a long time it was one of the best put together games for Linux. That's not been true for a while – the platform has grown leaps and bounds for gamers since then.

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