Category Archives: Linux

[How to ] Download video and other media on Linux (graphically)

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Many Linux user who have migrated from windows must be missing a GUI download manager and  accelerator  like Internet Download Manager aka IDM. Using IDM one can very easily download videos and other medias from sites like YouTube. In this post

Geany: a powerful and light weight editor for GNU/Linux

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However most of the geeks prefer command line editor like Vim , nano etc or simple GUI like Gedit on Linux systems. But many of us miss a light weight yet effective editor like GNU/Linux system. Notepad++  is an example

Make your GNU/Linux interface beautiful: Cairo-Dock

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Tired of monotonous look of  your system panel of your GNU/Linux desktop? Like Ubuntu’s Unity or GNOME? If you want to replace your  old system panel to something new and beautiful then Try Cairo-Dock! Cairo-Dock  very beautiful, elegant and light and convenient interface to your desktop. It come with a lot of

Make Fedora live bootable USB

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The reason behind this post is that I googled a lot for the solution for this problem. Even I mined fedora project website but couldn’t find it directly. At last through Wikipedia page I found the solution. To create live

TOR: Defender of online privacy and anonymity

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Web is not a very safe place, big brothers all over from giant companies  and government watching  your each and every step.  It is very easy to them to track your every activity, what you browse, what you search, to whom you chat. As

Using TOR on GNU/Linux [Screenshots]

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Using TOR is very easy on Linux. Process is same on Linux as well as on Windows, but for your convenient we are discussing it using screenshot, which is easier to understand than words.  Click her for windows  and here for Android

Truecrypt: Unbreakable disk encryption software

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In this cyber age data security and privacy is a big concern. Every one has some personal data, which they don’t want to share with other. I have seen many people searching terms like “Folder Lock” , “Folder Password” etc

Remastersys: awesome backup and image distribution tool for Linux

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If you are a Linux user then at a point of time you must have thought of a backup tool, which can backup all you personal stuffs along with the software and packages installed on the system. Or you may have faced a situation when

Back to Genome Classic from Ubuntu 11.10 in 2 step

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Against my previous post Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Desktop to classic Genome in 3 steps I am getting response that they can’t find log in Screen, hence they are unable to switch back to Genome Classic Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu

Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Desktop to classic Genome in 3 steps

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  Ubuntu 11.04 , codename‘Natty Narwhal’ is  the major release of Ubuntu which changed the classic Genome desktop environment to new Ubuntu desktop environment, named ‘Unity Desktop’. Ubuntu Natty Narwhal official video   For few, including me this new desktop