Tuesday 11 September 2012
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While there is subsonic and what not for streaming music from your home machine to your work machine. I just came across this no non-sense (free) super easy to setup and use, personal Jukebox tool called musicindex. It is an Apache module so if you are already running Apache then setting this up would...
For those who are scared of the “t” word, lets clarify one thing. Downloading a file using torrents is not illegal, however downloading a software or video or music that is not free or is copyrighted is 100% illegal. Actually torrents happen to be a great way of downloading GPL and open source softwares...
Quick boot OS or Fast Boot OS is the in thing these days and plenty of laptops shipped these days, come pre-installed with some version of it. While Chrome OS is still under development there are a couple of Quick boot “OSes” already out there, these are mostly Linux based and are free to...
7-Zip offers a free (open source) file compression and decompression utility. It supports decompression of rar and zip files and allows you to compress files in zip or 7z format. It is not a trial software and IMHO is far better than any of the popular trial softwares like Winzip and Winrar. Go get...
Digiarty Software recently rebuilt WinX DVD Ripper Platinum with brand-new frame work based on user feedback to maximally conform to common usage. We had reviewed this software sometime back. And most of the issues have been addressed in the latest release which is given out for free. Below are the upgraded features. Digiarty Software...
You can use your iPad / iPod Touch / iPhone to make free phone calls in USA and Canada or make very cheap international calls via your conventional landline or cell phone (calls are redirected and you don’t have to carry ipod / ipad around) with VoiceCentral Black Swan which acts as a “middleware”...
Applications that let you take screenshots are valuable for making tutorials and how to articles or even otherwise (e.g. stealing images that cannot be directly saved or copied ). For Linux Shutter for Linux is probably the best utility that you can get for this purpose. According to their website, with Shutter you can...
Jolicloud is a cloud based OS (sweet combination of Chrome OS concept and Ubuntu distro) and as per the developers “Jolicloud is not a traditional OS. It was build for netbook users to leverage the Cloud and make their life easier”. Well, I don’t have a netbook but the prospects of cloud computing look...
I recently switched to being a happy Nexus One user from a bored iPhone one. I like changing things around me to reflect my mood and needs, and with iPhone its impossible until strangely if you and Apple happen to be in a perfect sync. I have been using Nexus one for about two...
There is no beating Time Machine when it comes to backing up your Mac system. I use both windows and Mac on a daily basis and like to backup all my data to an Ubuntu server. There are many cross-platform softwares that allow you to do so, but I really wanted to stick to...
DVDFab is a well known commercial DVD ripping (decrypter) and encoding software. However, they offer HD Decrypter for free which can be used to rip (backup) any Blu-ray disk to your hard drive after removing any possible protection on the Blu-ray. The software offers several modes for copying the Blu-ray disk, e.g. you can...
Synergy is an open source free software that works like a virtual or software KVM switch allowing one to share one keyboard and one mouse with multiple computers in the LAN. Only requirement is that all these computers must be connected to network. Since Synergy is available for multiple platforms, you can use it...
Streaming of Live TV to multiple computers can be done easily using MythTV on Linux platform (Windows users might want to try Media Portal, which is not yet fully compatible with Windows 7, and I was not able to get it working with my Windows 7 setup, but some users have had some success...
After you have setup your MythTV with a master backend and frontend server setup (both of which are probably located on the same machine), you would like to install multiple remote frontends which can connect to the master backend server to let you view live TV and recording from any computer on your network....
Earlier I had discussed using your iPhone or iPod Touch as Air Mouse for Windows and Snow Leopard, it is possible for Linux as well using Hippo Remote (it supports Mac and Windows too). Look for it in the App store. The Lite version which is ad supported has the basic mouse and keyboard...
After you have installed Compiz Fusion and Emerald or even if you are not using Emerald and prefer Metacity, you can perk up your desktop real estate by installing addition themes from Bisigi Project. To do so run the following commands at a terminal sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi/ppa && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install...
XBMC is a powerful HTPC software that lets you transform your PC in to a multimedia home theater system. You can install it on Ubuntu 10.04 by running the following commands successively from the terminal. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone XBMC supports UPnP portocal that can be used...
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There are several ways command line as well as GUI based which one can use to modify a pdf file. Lets list out the command line approaches to extract a given number of pages from a pdf document, if you are dealing with a large document then the command line approaches are faster and...
While TVersity is a great UPnP server with on the fly encoding capability, it is only meant for Windows platform. This doesn’t make my *nix friends very happy. But not to worry there are plenty of apps from the open source community as well. Here are a few good ones: 1. MediaTomb: It is...
