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OfflineIMAP – Read, Synchronize and Backup your Email Offline
1 year ago
OfflineIMAP is a command line tool that operates on a remote and a local repository and synchronizes emails between them. Using offlineIMAP, you will be able to read and manage your email from multiple computers – with or without an active Internet connection. Any changes you make in your email folders are reflected on all your machines.
How To Uninstall Truecrypt In Linux
Truecrypt is a very secure file/disk encryption tool which is available as open source, which you can freely download and use. And you can install Truecrypt very easily in Linux too.
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How To : Install KDE 4.7 In Fedora 15
1 year ago
This “How To” explains the steps required to install KDE 4.7 in Fedora 15.
Considering that the latest version of KDE namely KDE 4.7 is out, I am sure some of you must be raring to upgrade your KDE Desktop to the latest version.
Cron – A Job Scheduler In Linux
1 year ago
Cron is a time based task or job scheduler available on Linux/Unix operating systems.
A job scheduler executes tasks on your computer at adjustable regular intervals.
What this means is – suppose you have to carry out a task on your computer that needs to be repeated at regular intervals, then you can pass the task to cron and it will execute the task at the given time and date.
bcrypt – A Good File Encryption Tool
1 year ago
Bcrypt is a cross platform file encryption tool that uses the Blowfish encryption algorithm. One of the chief advantages of using bcrypt (apart from the security aspect) is that it runs on a wide variety of OS platforms and hardware architectures. This includes Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, HP-UX etc. This means, you can encrypt the file in say Linux, and then move the encrypted file to a machine running Windows and decrypt the file over there.
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Easily Find And Replace Text Across Multiple Files
1 year ago
If you are stuck with a bunch of text files which contain a factual error and you urgently need to correct the same, then the obvious recourse would be to open each text file individually and search and replace the text. This process is very laborious and time consuming especially if the number of text files runs in 10s and 100s.
How To: Install Java In Fedora
1 year ago
This tutorial explains how to install Oracle Java in Fedora so that you can run Java applets in your web browser.
The process is quite simple because Java has been released in an open source license.
How to Install Software on Linux Compiling From Source
Two days back while configuring and fine tuning Fedora 15 on my machine, I tried to install one of my favorite plugins in GIMP namely “Save for Web” plugin. To my dismay though, there was no complied version for Fedora. So I had to download the source code of the plugin, compile, and install it.
The following are the steps needed to compile from source and install software on Linux.
How To: Add startup programs in GNOME 3
1 year ago
This is a tip to automatically start any program of your choice while logging into your GNOME 3 desktop.
Create an ordinary file in your ~/.config/autostart directory. If the ~/.config/autostart directory is not present, you will have to create it.
Osmo – A Free Personal Information Manager For Linux
1 year ago
Osmo is a free personal information manager (PIM) for Linux. It consists of a Calendar, Tasks manager, an Address book, and Notes – all integrated in a compact interface. Osmo provides all these functions in different panes/tabs. And your data is stored in a plain XML database.