Firefox 3 Review
I have been a Firefox 3 user from day 1. So I thought it might be a good time to write a review. Some positive and negative points about it… The Negative Stuff Stability Issues I am having some random...
View ArticleCreating a Screencast in Linux
RecordMyDesktop is a tool to create screencasts in Linux easily. A screencast is a video capture of your desktop – a video equivalent of a screenshot. Install RecordMyDesktop You can install...
View ArticleAdding Support for almost All Video Formats/Codecs in Linux
There is an over abundance of video formats right now – fortunately, our favorite OS, Linux, is capable of handling all of them. But some video formats are not supported ‘out-of-the-box’ – in such...
View ArticleSMPlayer – Linux Video Player
I have used a lot of video players on Linux – and over the time my favorite video player have changed. When I wrote the post Top 5 Video Players in Linux, it was VLC. After that, the position was held...
View ArticleCreating Custom Service Menus in Konqueror
If you are using Konqueror and have not used custom service menus, you are missing out. Just like the Nautilus Scripts in Nautilus, Konqueror also has the ability to customize the context menus. This...
View ArticleWFTL Bytes
WFTL Bytes “your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show” is a video podcast by Marcel Gagné. Go see it – it is Good – Good with a capital ‘G’. WFTL Bytes does for Linux what Zero Punctuation does for...
View ArticleXOSL Boot Loader: An Alternate for GRUB
If you have a dual boot system, most of you will be using GRUB as the boot loader – since its the default boot loader. A smaller number will be using LILO – an older software. I use neither – I choose...
View ArticleSlow Scrolling in Firefox in Pages With Fixed Backgrounds
I have a unique problem with my firefox – and as far as I know I am the only one who has this issue. Firefox is very slow to scroll pages that has a fixed background image. Ajaxian is an example of...
View ArticleTop 4 Terminal GUI Applications
Terminal GUI Apps? Does sound oxymoronic doesn’t it? Well, there are GUI apps in the terminal – and here is a tribute to ones that I find most useful… top/htop – Process Viewer From the man page… The...
View ArticleCrontab Code Generator
JSL Crontab Generator is a GUI application that can be used to create new crontab entries easily. Its a Javascript application – so it will run from your browser – there is no download/install...
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