Linux And Friends

When ever I ride my bicycle, I always end up buying stuff – mostly groceries, but sometimes other miscellaneous things too. And it has been a hassle to transport the goods back home because my bicycle lacked a basket. There is a carrier / bike rack in the back though, but it is of little [...]

In Linux you have multiple virtual terminals which you usually navigate using the [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Fn] key. [Fn] stands for F1 to F12 keys. But the same thing can be achieved by using a little command in Linux called chvt.

In GIMP, you have access to many scripts which allow you to do complex tasks with the click of a button. When you install GIMP in Windows or when GIMP comes pre-installed in Linux, it comes with a good subset of these scripts installed by default. These scripts are consolidated and are found under the [...]

Personas are light weight, easy to install, and easy to change skins for your Firefox web browser.  It is installed as a Firefox Addon. Once installed, you can access it from the Firefox menu – Tools > “Personas for Firefox”. Personas allow you to  transform the look of your Firefox web browser with just a [...]

Ubuntu Linux searches for fonts in specific locations as listed in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file. A look at the contents of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file indicates the following directories which are searched by Ubuntu Linux for fonts. They are : /usr/share/fonts /usr/share/X11/fonts /usr/local/share/fonts ~/.fonts So if you want to install new fonts in Ubuntu Linux or Debian for [...]

Ubuntu Linux is a multi-user multi-tasking operating system. This means that multiple users can simultaneously use Ubuntu at the same time. This is a video which explains step by step how to add a new user in Ubuntu Linux. Hope you find the video tutorial informative and useful.

Getting things done has become a whole lot easier for Gmail users, now that Google has added tasks management into Gmail.  If you have a list of things you need to do now or in the near future, you can easily keep track of them by entering them in Gmail tasks. Gmail tasks makes it [...]

Optipng is a PNG image optimizer that re-compresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. This command line program also converts external formats (BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections.

Aviary is a website which provides free online graphics tools to manipulate images. Recently the Aviary team released a Firefox extension called Talon which allows you not just to take a screenshot of any web page but also edit them in one of Aviary.com online editors.