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What should be the colours of Gnome-Terminal?

Written on March 8th, 2010 at 05:51 am by shredder12

While clearing out the big pile of emails today, I came across this huge discussion on ubuntu-dev -discuss list about the colours of gnome-terminal. Honestly, I never thought this could be a point of discussion at all , but I was wrong. This article is just a brief summary of that discussion. This might not look of any use but its always good(and a little fun) to know other's opinion about such issues.

Unite Media Player, A Widget for Opera

Written on March 4th, 2010 at 19:39 pm by shredder12

There is now a Media Player widget available for Opera Browser, its Unite Media Player. The applications aims to provide a lot of simplicity to the user.  You can directly browser yours or your friend's music and play it right from their devices. No need of uploads/downloads or third party stuff, the music will be streamed from anywhere for you.

VLC is used in Formula One

Written on March 2nd, 2010 at 14:09 pm by shredder12

I read a blog post of Jean-Paul Saman, a VLC developer, about the use of VLC in the most popular motorsport of the World, Formula One. According to the blog, a big VLC fan, Dan Dectis, posted a message on the vlc mailing list mentioning this picture from the Formula One Photography. This is indeed one of the examples showing the power and extent of VLC media player.

About.com's Readers voted Opera as the Favourite Desktop and Mobile Browser

Written on March 1st, 2010 at 21:46 pm by shredder12

Results of About.com Reader's choice Awards for Browsers have been announced and Opera holds the crown for both the Desktop and Mobile browser categories. Opera was already being expected as a winner for the Mobile category but it came as a surprise when this browser with a very little share in the market, beat all of the popular Desktop browsers. Call it less voting from other browser's followers or more enthusiastic Opera users but Readers have said it, Opera FTW!.

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Developing with HTML5

Written on March 7th, 2010 at 17:13 pm by chia

HTML4 has served us for more than 10 years now and there hasn't been any major update in it, there is XHTML that has done a little more by making code more strict, if at all you are concerned with HTML compliance. Work on HTML5 was started in 2004 by a group called WHATWG founded by Apple, Mozilla and Opera. Most new browsers are now supporting new HTML5 tags. In this article, we will have a look at some HTML5 features which will make your web development easier and organized.

Howto: Use logrotate to manage log files

Written on February 20th, 2010 at 17:02 pm by shredder12

Logrotate is a great utility to manage and adminster log files in a system. It provides you with a lot of options, namely, automatic rotation, compression and mailing of log files. Each log file can be rotated hourly, daily, weekly or monthly. In this article, I will show you how to manage your log files using logrotate.

How to add/remove User accounts in Linux?

Written on February 19th, 2010 at 04:15 am by chia

Most of us need to work with creating/managing user accounts on a regular basis. System Administrators have to deal with this stuff on a regular basis. In this howto i will go through the basics of creating and deleting user accounts on a Linux-based system.

How to make gnome-dictionary work offline

Written on January 29th, 2010 at 00:10 am by shredder12

So, I guess I was wrong about gnome-dictionary, it can be configured to work offline . All you have to do to make it work is, install the server packages, some dictionaries, a little tweaking in the configuration and there is your gnome-dictionary working in offline mode. It might not provide all the features of stardict but it does the job.