• GNU/Linux

    Linux Mint 15 ‘Olivia’ (Cinnamon) Review

    by  • June 4, 2013 • GNU/Linux • 16 Comments

    Linux Mint is a GNU/Linux distribution to which I have witnessed a great deal of respect. It is a solid operating system that comes with a desktop environment of its own (though it is based on Gnome Shell & its applications) and when it comes to usability & control, it really puts the users...

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    ‘Skrywer’ is a Distraction-free Text editor (with background ambient sounds) for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 & 12.04 LTS

    by  • May 16, 2013 • Ubuntu • 2 Comments

    ‘Skrywer’ is a new distraction-free text editor for Ubuntu users. It doesn’t have a lot of options, but it comes with few built-in ambient sounds (ocean waves, forest, raining, fireplace & a night outside) and I found them to be quite inspiring . It also lets you change between few font styles & sizes,...

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    Install ‘Stellarium’ (real-time, 3D, night sky simulator) 0.12.1 on Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 LTS

    by  • May 1, 2013 • Ubuntu • 4 Comments

    ‘Stellarium’ is one of the best, real-time, 3D, night sky simulation software available, period . It’s completely free, open-source, runs of GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X & Android. It comes with star catalogs consisting 600,000 stars (more can be added, manually), big nebulae collection, constellations, 3D rendering (360°) with awesome zooming, search, change location...

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    Install ‘wxMP3val’ 2.4 on Ubuntu 13.04 & 12.10

    by  • May 1, 2013 • Ubuntu • 0 Comments

    ‘wxMP3val’ is a utility that scans MP3 tracks & validates them. If problems are found, it can also fix them as well. ‘wxMP3val’ is actually a graphical front-end for the command-line based tool ‘MP3val’. Using it, is pretty simple. Once finished adding files or the folders that contain your MP3 tracks to its main...

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    Install ‘MKVToolNix’ 6.2.0 on Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 LTS

    by  • May 1, 2013 • Ubuntu • 0 Comments

    ‘ MKVToolNix’ is the official ‘Matroska’ multimedia container manipulation utility. It lets you add/remove various types of audio/video tracks, change a lot of settings (including audio/video sync adjusting), split file’s content etc. Recently, it was updated to 6.2.0 version, which according to the developer, includes a fix that reduces the memory consumption by a...

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    Performance Based, Ubuntu 13.04 Review

    by  • April 27, 2013 • Ubuntu • 15 Comments

    The recently released, Ubuntu 13.04, not only brings up-to-date packages (including LibreOffice 4.0), which is pretty usual, but according to its ‘Release Notes’ page, ‘Unity’ desktop 7.0 too brings noticeable improvements, concerning memory consumption & performance. On a side note, I know this might sound a bit weird, but from all the Ubuntu versions...

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