Linux And Friends

Phatch is a photo batch processor with a nice graphical user interface. It supports all popular image formats and can duplicate folder hierarchies which makes it ideal for identically manipulating 1000s of images in one go. It can also be used to rename exif data in your photos. Phatch is based on Python and will work [...]

My friend who does night shift work tells me he initially found it hard to work at night. Of course the management did make it a point to provide night shift entertainment to its employees to keep them alert. However, nothing beats a sound sleep right ? He went on to provide the following 5 [...]

If you suddenly find that your Internet speed has slowed to a crawl while browsing the net, in all probability it could be because of  problems in name resolution. Resolving web address names to their respective IP addresses where websites are hosted,  is the job of Domain Name System  (DNS) servers.  You can now find [...]

This guide teaches you how to install LAMP server in Ubuntu Linux the easy way. LAMP is an acronym for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP. Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP form the de facto standard for running any content management system – be it WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and so on.

Syntax Highlighting is a method of color coding the code syntax to make it more legible to the reader. For this you embed pieces of code into your website / blog where ever you need to highlight any code in your articles, and the syntax highlighter does the job.

If you run a website, then you may be interested in tracking your website statistics. Such as, detailed real time reports on your website visitors – the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages, who links to your articles and so on.

Google or rather the Gmail team in Google, is offering to send one free Greetings card on your behalf to a person of your choice via snail mail (ordinary mail) this holiday season. To send a card, visit gmail.com/holidaycard and fill up the form. You can choose from 6 different designs for your post card. [...]

Maximus is a command line tool that maximizes the windows of desktop applications that are running. This tool is useful if for example, you have installed a normal Linux distribution in a netbook – a laptop with 10″ inches or less screen size, and you want to utilize the screen to the fullest.

Now a days, you find lots of Operating Systems packaged as a IMG file, meant to be copied to a portable disk like a USB pen drive. For instance, Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Moblin  are available as a IMG files. Now if you are interested in running these operating system flash images  in VirtualBox, you [...]