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Deja-dup, a great Backup utility

Written on February 10th, 2010 at 00:44 am by shredder12

We all need to take backups from time to time. A few months ago I wrote an article about doing so using Rsync. This was a command line way and didn't have any provision for data encryption. So, while looking for a tool that would let me encrypt as well as backup data, I found this really cool GUI application deja-dup which does far more than I was looking for.

Use Tucan Manager to download files from various file hosting sites

Written on January 23rd, 2010 at 00:59 am by shredder12

Don't you just hate when you have to wait and download files from various 1-click hosters. Wouldn't it be great if we had a single place where we could manage all our downloads from various such websites. Tucan Manager seems to be a solution for this problem. It can manage all your downloads for most of the popular 1-click file sharing sites.

Manage your podcasts using gPodder

Written on January 11th, 2010 at 00:05 am by shredder12

So, the application I have been using a lot recently is gPodder. In simple words, its a podcast aggregator or a podcast manager or even simpler it may be considered as a rss reader which deals with audio and video feeds rather than textual content. In addition to being simple and easy to use, its very flexible. Keep reading and I am sure many of you will replace your podcast client with gPodder .

Mount Windows partition automatically using PySDM

Written on January 8th, 2010 at 23:17 pm by shredder12

It's always a headache to mount windows partitions manually everytime you login. I have tried almost all the possible methods to automatically mount them. Starting from manually editing fstab file to running scripts that do it to using ntfs-3g and a lot more. But PySDM is indeed the fastest and the simplest way to manage partitions.

Gnome-open, open files and URLs from terminal easily

Written on January 7th, 2010 at 18:12 pm by shredder12

I mostly work on the command line. So, whenever I want an application to open a file I mostly do it running a command. But this requires you to know the name of the application which I can hardly remember, bad memory . But gnome guys have a solution for people like us. Its called gnome-open.

StarDict, a great Dictionary Program

Written on January 27th, 2010 at 18:49 pm by shredder12

Most of us will be aware of the default dictionary application that we get with GNOME. It works fine but without Internet its useless. StartDict on the other hand, not even solves this problem but also provides far more features than any Dictionary program I have ever used or heard of. There are 1000+ stardict dictionaries in multiple languages that you can use, making it a really powerful Dictionary program.

AptUrl, Install packages using apt protocol

Written on January 14th, 2010 at 18:10 pm by shredder12

This is a small howto cum help page to help those linuxers who are having trouble installing packages from the links we mention in our blogs. I guess when you try to open the link you get this error message "firefox doesn't know how to open this address". Basically, it means that firefox doesn't know how to handle the apt:// protocol. In order to make it work, you will have to install apturl.

Run this command in the terminal

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install apturl

How to download mms streaming videos in Ubuntu

Written on January 9th, 2010 at 18:11 pm by shredder12

Yesterday, a friend of mine came to me looking for a way to download a mms stream. Forget about the direct download I wasn't even able to stream it on the available players at the moment. But later after some searching I found out that there is an application for Ubuntu called mimms which can directly download the mms stream for you.

Tasksel Installation System

Written on January 8th, 2010 at 00:37 am by shredder12

Tasksel is an installation system that is an integral part of Debian installer. Its in Ubuntu too. Unlike apt-get or aptitude it doesn't install individual packages but group them as individual tasks e.g a lamp-server. Yes, you got it right we don't have to install mysql, php and apache individually anymore, just ask it to install lamp-server directly. Doesn't it make life easier. Keep on reading to find out more about Tasksel.

Proposed Photo managers for Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

Written on December 19th, 2009 at 13:11 pm by shredder12

All of you would know by now that Ubuntu Devels are planning to remove GIMP as a default program. This has led to a lot of discussions among them about the default photo manager for Ubuntu Lucid that will compensate for it. They are not supposed to be as powerful as GIMP but should be able to handle some minimal image manipulations. In this article, we will look into the 3 top competitors F-Spot, Shotwell and Solang.

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