How to Reduce Computer Eye Strain
You might suffer from eye strain if your job involves working on a computer for long hours. This is especially true if you stare at the computer monitor sitting in a dimly lit room. One of the best ways of reducing computer eye strain is to change the colour of your monitor in relation to [...]
Read moreEasystroke – Control Computer Programs with Hand Drawn Mouse Gestures
Easystroke is a gesture recognition application for Linux. It allows you to control computer programs with hand drawn mouse gestures. Gestures or strokes are movements that you make with your mouse while holding down a specific mouse button. The default in Easystroke is the middle button of your mouse. But you can change it to [...]
Read moreHow To Reinstall GRUB2 – Chroot Into A Linux Partition
This guide teaches you how to install/re-install GRUB2 in Linux. GRUB2 is a boot loader that is used to install Windows and Linux on the same PC.
Read moreHow to add a taskbar in Ubuntu 11.10
If you are using Ubuntu 11.10 as your Linux Desktop, then you will find that when you minimize any application, there is no visual cue where the application has been minimized. And the only way of bringing the minimized application to the front is to use the application switcher [Alt + Tab] key combination.
Read moreOfflineIMAP – Read, Synchronize and Backup your Email Offline
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 [...]
Read moreHow 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.
Read moreHow 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. [...]
Read moreHow To: Add startup programs in GNOME 3
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.
Read morePandoc – A Document Conversion Tool For Linux
Pandoc is a command line tool that converts text from one markup language to another. The markup languages supported by pandoc are – HTML, Text, Markdown, LaTeX, ConTeXt, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, MediaWiki markup, S5 (An HTML slide show similar to Slidy) and so on. However, it doesn’t support PDF conversion. So if you [...]
Read moreFBReader – A versatile E-Book reader that works on multiple devices
FBReader is a Free and open source e-book reader targeted at Linux, Windows, and Android users. Currently, FBReader works on Linux desktop, Windows XP/Vista/7, FreeBSD, and various Linux based mobile devices. FBReader also has a clone named FBReaderJ which is an e-book reader for the Google Android platform. FBReaderJ is a Java based software as [...]
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