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Listening to music is a pretty important part of anyone’s life. With the advent of even more features in media players to recommend music, create playlists, and display large, beautiful album art ““ everyone wants their collection to be as beautiful as this one: artist names, tracks, year, genre and other tags. In this article [...]
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One of the first things I do before watching a movie is add subtitles. Not just with films in languages I don’t speak well, like Japanese, but even with English films or television series, like House MD. Especially with a television series like House MD, if I want to keep up when they start throwing [...]
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Actions? Aren’t all the menus, dialog boxes and commands enough, why would you want actions? Well if you do any kind of task repeatedly inside GIMP – like resizing images to a particular size, adding your site’s watermark or the “friendly admin” to the images like Karl does, or you want to add some functionality [...]
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Have you ever done a thing repeatedly on your computer and wished that you could automate it and get it to run on its own? In Linux, the easiest way to schedule and automate a task is to use the crontab. This is a command line based application that allows you to execute commands or [...]
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Have you ever looked up at the night sky wondering where those elusive constellations are? Do you wonder what that really bright star (or planet) is called? With Stellarium, you will wonder no longer! You may have heard of Celestia, a great program that lets you leave planet Earth and explore space from beyond. Stellarium [...]
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One of the biggest problems still plaguing the environment today are the mass amounts of electronics being tossed out on a daily basis. This goes for everything from cell phones to televisions to your outdated stereo system. While stuff like cell phones and iPods can be easily sold, it’s the personal computer that still lacks [...]
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As the world continues its rapid movement to the Web, things are changing in the field of journalism. Where once newspapers dominated, the world of blogs and online publications are quickly springing up to take its place. One of the cool things about the Web is that there’s nothing holding developers to a particular layout, [...]
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I remember when I first booted up Ubuntu on my computer three years ago that I wasn’t very impressed with the dull black usplash screen. It gave me a feeling that I was back to the Windows 95 era. Three years down the road, even though the Ubuntu team has made changes and improvements to [...]
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Few days back we looked at how to customize Nautilus to get most out of the context menus and write custom menu entries as per your requirement. Today let’s pay some attention to the good old text editor – Gedit. Gedit is the default text editor for most of the Linux distributions using Gnome as [...]
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When I was in elementary school I was very annoyed by all this studying. But my idea and hope was that once I was done with school, I would also be done learning. I couldn’t wait. Thus I was rather irritated when I heard that my dad had to complete training for his job to [...]
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Minimizing the filesize of the CSS stylesheet has been regarded by many as a good way to increase your site loading speed. Indeed, by reducing the CSS file by several kilobytes, the server will take a shorter time to load and result in a faster webpage. In the event that your articles hit the Digg [...]
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Mark has previously described how you can use TrueCrypt to encrypt your sensitive data. While that is a great encryption software, it requires you to pre-allocate a fixed size to the container before you can store confidential data to it. If you are using only 10% of the allocated space, the remaining 90% of the [...]
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My family recently took a vacation – that was all that was originally decided, that they were going somewhere. The timing and price were set, and they decided to wait and see where they would go. It’s a unique way to travel, certainly, but it turned out incredibly well for them. With a bit of [...]
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Ubuntu System Panel (USP) is a configurable Gnome launcher that you can add to your Ubuntu (and other Linux distros based on Gnome) panel for quick and easy access to the various applications and places. When opened up, it displays a broad window containing various information about your computer. You can easily add shortcuts to [...]
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Nautilus, as you know, is the default file manager for Gnome Desktop Environment. It’s where you wander and spend most of your time, when you are not browsing the web or firing commands at the command prompt. So obviously it would be cool and productive to some tools that make your work easier. Nautilus actions [...]
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