News

How Secure is Your Password? Create a Strong Password and Sleep...

Our on-line content, bank accounts, shopping accounts and social network accounts are as safe as our passwords are. Most people don't  consider password security...

Unreliable Battery Indicators on Android Phones?

The accuracy of the Android battery indicators has always been in question. And it may extend to smartphones on all platforms. The arguments, for...

Plymouth Manager- A nice tool to change plymouth resolution and boot...

Plymouth Manager is a software written in Python, through which we can correct, change or modify our boot screen ( Plymouth ) in Ubuntu....

Wine 1.5.13 has been released!

Wine 1.5.13 has been released, this bi-weekly developent release comes with some new features and bug fixes. What`s new in Wine 1.5.13? Client-side window rendering using...

Empathy 3.10.3 Stable Released With Two Bug Fixes

Empathy is a GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file transfers and inter-application communication over many different protocols, including: AIM,...

Pear OS 8 Beta 2 Available For Testing

David Tavares, the creator of Pear OS and Mac user for about 10 years has announced the release of Pear OS 8.0 Beta 2,...

Curlew 0.1.22.3 Has Been Released

The open-source multimedia converter for linux Curlew has reached version 0.1.22.3 bringing some missing dialog icons, a "Português - Brazil" translation and an updated...

Midori 0.5.8 Web Browser Has Been Released

The Midori 0.5.8 web browser has been released with a large number of improvements and features, a release that is dedicated to Adblock and...

Short Introduction to Netcat

Playing with tools has always been fun for me. You enjoy and learn at the same...

Introduction to LanyFS

Back in July 2012, I had the privilege of talking with Dan Luedtke. He was busy working on a new project for his studies,...

GNOME Shell Theme Pack- A nice collecion of themes for Gnome...

This is a nice pack of themes for Gnome shell, the pack contains 6 nice themes : deviantart theme that is based on the...

Larry Page, “Dear Google Users”

Internet media has reported that the NSA, the secretive United States Government Organization, has direct access to servers of some of the biggest web...

Why It Is Better To Program On Linux

You have probably heard a lot of times that it is better to program on Linux, and programmers use it more often than Windows....

How Businesses Can Benefit from Using Linux

Many businesses spend a lot of time weighing up the benefits of cloud automation and orchestration, without spending too much time considering operating systems....

galculator: Scientific Calculator in Algebraic Mode and RPN

galculator is a GTK 2 / GTK 3 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic mode as well as RPN. Features include arithmetic precedence handling, mathematical...

The Text-based Web Browser: The Alternative

We live in a flashy world when it comes to the world-wide-web. With most websites carrying a lot of flashy graphics, banners and advertisements....

PengPod 1040: Quad Core Linux-Android Dual Booting Tablets

What is PengPod 1040? Pengpod 1040 is the latest Pengpod tablet which can dual boot GNU/Linux and Android, all from internal memory. This tablet...

How to install Univention Corporate Server

Preface Most of the IT or non-IT organization/companies generally possess hybrid environment .i.e. they have Linux based as well as Microsoft based desktops or servers.It...