"In case you haven’t heard Songbird is a great open source media organizer and content scraper. With a couple of small tweaks you can set it up to anonymously download (backups of your existing) media or stream media from millions of sources online..."
Read more »Installing Compiz Fusion -- Total Newb Version
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Use this guide for installing with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04).
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Install any Linux distro directly from hard disk without burning any DVD
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After you download any Linux distro from the internet, you have to burn it to a DVD, CD or a number of CDs to install it. You generally only use each CD/DVD once so What a wastage of disks! But with a little trick you can install any Linux directly from the hard disk without burning a single CD or DVD.
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Backing Up Your Linux
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Backing up your computer is important. Don't be the sucker who loses important files and has to deal with it afterwards! In this how-to, you will learn about using rsync and lftp, writing your own scripts and adding them to crontab and of course, backing up to your external storage, NAS and also a remote server running Linux.
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Setting up a FreeBSD File and Fetching Mail Server
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At some point in your life you may find yourself in a situation where you are in need of either control of your own mail server, or a file server where you can host files for the whole family, or share them with ease. This tutorial will teach you how to setup both a file and a mail server on the same machine at the same time.
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Removing Backgrounds Quickly in the Gimp
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After publishing an article about removing backgrounds quickly in Photoshop, many have asked me how to do the same thing with the Gimp. While there is no equivalent to the Extract filter in the Gimp, you can still remove backgrounds fairly quickly. At Linux.com there is a good explanation of some techniques. Here, I will show you how to do it with the Create and edit paths tool.
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Building Your own Custom Linux PC
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Hardware compatibility was a major issue with Linux some years ago, but it's quite safe to say that we have gone past that point.
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Top 10 Gnome Desktop Tweaks
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The desktop environment for many Linux users, Gnome, is fast, organized and very easy to learn. But Gnome is also very powerful and highly customizable. Today's top 10 lists the various ways you can tweak Nautilus and the Gnome desktop to turn Linux into a productivity powerhouse.
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Building a JavaScript Library
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"This past Friday I gave my first Google Tech Talk on Building a JavaScript Library. [...] Please let me know if this talk interested you as I’m trying to gauge what interests other web developers - because all of this stuff fascinates me (JavaScript programming, open source projects, etc.)."
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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Etch)
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"This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos)..."
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How to get local email under Linux
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IF YOU'RE a Linux user and, like yours truly, not really a professional full-time Unix/Linux sysadmin, you might also be puzzled like I was about how to set up Postfix to route local system-generated email to your email client. If you're not a Linux user, or not curious, you can stop reading here, because this article is about how to solve that problem.
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Making My Grandparents Leet Linux Users - Part 3
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I use some common Linux tools to remotely support my Grandparents’ PC. These tools are SSH and X11vnc. X11vnc lets me take over the display, and the VNC traffic is tunneled with SSH.
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GIMP Tutorial: Hot text on flames / fire
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"There are many ways to create fire text, but believe me, no other text is looking that cool and real as this one ;) Of course it maybe a lil' more effort to get it. I will show you how to create such a hot flames text with GIMP..."
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Emacs: where programs evolve!
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"I have been using Vim editor for past ( almost ) four years, but now I have switched over to Emacs. I find it more intuitive ( just a personal opinion ). While I was learning Emacs I had few queries. So, I have prepared a small HOWTO which might help a new emacs user..."
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Howto Setup Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse in Ubuntu
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If you have a Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse here is the procedure to follow howto setup in ubuntu
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