Linux And Friends

Tweetshell is a command line twitter application which can be used to manage your tweets as well as keep track of what is happening in twitter land. But what is really unique about this command line application is that it runs from within your web browser. Tweetshell allows you to manage your tweets and keep [...]

Here is a simple tip to share your files and folders residing on your Linux machine with anyone across the web. Open a bash terminal and create an alias as follows: $ alias webshare=’python -c “import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()”‘ Next navigate to the directory which you want to share with someone and run the alias command as [...]

Wkhtmltopdf is a command line utility that can be used to convert  a webpage / html to  PDF. Here is how it works… Suppose I want to convert this website home page to a PDF document, I can fire up a terminal and run the wkhtmltopdf command as follows.

Artha is a free GPLed English dictionary and thesaurus for Linux based on WordNet. What is unique about Artha is that it completely works off-line. My search for a Linux based English dictionary similar in features to the proprietary, albeit free WordWeb led me to Artha. If you have used a dictionary on your computer [...]

Hurricanes are a global phenomenon. A hurricane is a powerful, spiralling storm that begins over a warm sea near the equator. Depending upon its location and strength, a hurricane is known by different names such as tropical cyclone, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression and simply cyclone. History is replete with powerful  hurricanes that [...]

Looking into the mirror each time, I was appalled to see my teeth. They looked dirty with stains and of course plaque. But more than that, my tongue was rubbing against the plaque constantly thus causing some discomfort.

Visuwords is a visual dictionary for English. The unique feature of this visual dictionary is that once you search the meaning of an English word in it, Visuwords will turn that word into a bouncing ball containing its meaning and pull related words in similar balls around it.

The other day, I had explained how you can download subtitles for your movies from opensubtitles website using a nifty software called Subdownloader. Once you have downloaded the relevant subtitle file for your movies, it is quite trivial to show subtitles for the movie in Totem media player – the default video player in Ubuntu [...]

SubDownloader is a program for automatic download/upload subtitles for video files (DIVX,MPEG,AVI,VOB,etc) and DVD’s using fast hashing. It sports a friendly interface which allows users to have a better movie experience since searching for subtitles is no longer dull or boring. SubDownloader follows the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle. This utility makes subtitle searching [...]