Thursday 13 September 2012
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We had tried earlier to mimic the look and feel of Mac OS (Snow Leopard) for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04, but with only limited success. The process was not only cumbersome, the final product wasn’t as perfect as you would like it to be. Things have changed and changed for good, with the advent...
Splashtop Remote is the clearly the best and most affordable Remote Desktop App for your iPod Touch / iPhone / iPad. There are plenty of remote desktop apps based on VNC and other protocols. But what Splashtop Remote has taken remote desktop sharing to the next level and it is only priced $0.99 which...
If you are using Ubuntu 10.04, or 10.10 see the updated post here for simpler one step installation. You can make your linux (Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.10, 10.04 etc.) desktop look like Mac OSX. You can do this in few simple steps. The steps described below need that you already have Compiz Fusion and...
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...
This is incredible! XBMC+MythTV rock!! I have been trying all kinds of crazy solutions to be able to stream Live TV over the LAN. MythTV does offer an easy way out, but then you are stuck with Ubuntu at all times. Not that I have any issues with that, but I do indulge myself...
If you have been intrigued by the hype surrounding Snow Leopard but could afford buying a Mac to check it out. Here is you chance to do it, that too without having to mess with your existing system as we are going to install it using VirtualBox which now with its v 3.2 offers...
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...
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...
Windows 7 has good inbuilt UPnP capabilities as long as you try to stream your music and video to XBOX or another Windows Media Player or Dedicated clients like XBMC or GeeXboX. But if you want to stream your media (musiv, video, pictures) to PSP or iPod touch/iPhone or Blackberry or PSP or Wii...
Update: See the changes to be made to the code for Subsonic 4.1 see this post. All other steps remain the same. Subsonic is a free to use, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. It can be used to share your music with family and friends, or to listen to your own...
μTorrent is the best software for downloading stuff via torrent, it is very light and fast software. Currently it is only available for Windows and the Mac version is in beta stage. Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 users have Transmission installed for them by default, if not then install it by: sudo apt-get install...
I found it the hard way that the windows compatible external drive (NTFS formatted) is read only in Snow Leopard. Mac OS X 10.4 and higher can only read and not write to NTFS format volume. Among other messy ways to make NTFS volumes writable, easiest is to install MacFuse. As per the description...
Safari Adblocker is a must-have plugin for anyone using Safari. It is based on the famous Adblock Plus addon for firefox. People using Adblock on earlier version of Safari running on Leopard found that update to Snow Leopard comes with 64-bit version of Safari and the Safari Adblock doesn’t work with it anymore. You...
Update: Simplify Media would no longer be developed or supported by its developers. So instead consider Subsonic, which offers lot more possibilities than Simplify. Consider the situation around me; I have a Windows based PC in the office, a personal Mac running Snow Leopard and a Windows 7 based HTPC at home which primarily houses all...
Often times we have to quickly resize an image, mark and add labels to a picture and then import it in some word processor like MS Word or Latex. Preview, the versatile document viewer for snow leopard has a very neat feature called Annotate to quickly facilitate such an editing. Preview supports all the...
It is a very common query as to how the notebook batteries be handled to maximize their performance in terms of backup time as well as battery life. I recently researched for best battery usage habits. A few smart tricks and you can extract maximum out of your battery! hmmm…….Laptop battery? Laptop batteries...
Audacity is the cross platform sound editing tool, which is free. It is a very good replacement of Goldwave which sells for $50. You can use it for editing mp3 or ogg or and sound clip. You can use it to make (crop) small clips from your music (mp3) files to use it...
It is a great feature and now I will share it with you guys. MacJournal offers you rich text editor environment and lets you write and save the draft even when you are offline and upload it later on. Also, this way you have an offline backup of all your posts! I really like...
Incidentally, lifehacker cannot afford mac, but babyhacker can! So, here is the list of useful applications for mac users. These apps work well in snow leopard and work just the same way for leopard or tiger users. 1. Anxiety (freeware) – Its a lightweight to-do manager and allows you to sync your to-do list...
There are several video transcoding softwares available online and among the ones I have used, I have found Handbrake to be the best. Handbrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multithreaded, multiplatform video transcoder–you can use it on Mac, Windows and Linux. The conversion is quite fast–around 30 minutes for a full-feature film (around 1.5-3...
