Chrome OS Linux is a completely separate project from the original Google Chrome OS. Although they both “revolve” around the Chrome web browser, yet the Chrome OS Linux is an independent GNU/Linux distribution build on the OpenSuse distribution. According to …
Amarok without a doubt is one of the best free and cross-platform music players and is also one of the major components of the KDE desktop environment. It supports few multimedia frameworks (Gstreamer/Phonon and player engines such as Xine), has …
This is another post for the Ubuntu newbies since the average users do know this :). If you’re ‘greeted’ with low disk space warning messages in Ubuntu which can be both annoying and might even slow down your PC for …
I’ve come up with quite a few disc image mounters under Ubuntu lately. Some had decent amount of features and some were extremely simple yet more than capable of serving their purpose, such as “Mounty” for instance. But yesterday I …
S.M.A.R.T (Self-monitoring analysis and reporting) is a fail safe technology that’s built into newer hard disk drives that has the ability to monitor the drive and give feed-back about its health. On most occasions, it should be able to notify …
Unity 3D (the default desktop) is actually a plug-in that runs on top of the 3D graphics rendering manager called Compiz. And I honestly don’t know whether it’s Compiz, Unity or the GPU driver to be blamed here because since …
Ubuntu comes with an awesome photo organizer called “Shotwell”. It can handle huge amounts of photos collection without much of a trouble and even has some decent support for cropping, changing colors or resolutions etc when it comes to editing …
Ubuntu comes with a dedicated app called “sound recorder” which is pretty simple application. But if you want to record, edit (with few effects, etc) and then play the files with all your changes … well that ain’t gonna do …
In Ubuntu we can easily create an ISO disc image of any CD/DVD thanks to the Brasero optical disc burning utility. But what if all you have is nothing but folders and files and wondering an easy way to create …
The container format is the heart of any multimedia file because it’s what holds all the audio/video/subtitle and other codecs related data. Now there are a lot of multimedia container formats around but in my experience although they may not …
Adobe invented the PDF (portable document format) thus their PDF Reader is perhaps one of the most widely used applications for reading PDF files. But in my experience, apart from all of its features and usability, it’s a PC resources …
Usually when you double click on certain types of executable files such as a script (.sh) or a “.bin” file for instance, then Nautilus (default file manager in Gnome and Ubuntu) lets you run them either through the command-line or …
