‘Limoo’ is an open-source, QT 5 (user interface designer) based image viewer for GNU/Linux users who have a thing for minimalist & a bit fancy looking applications. It is however, is merely an image viewer and is not an image …
Read more‘Limoo’ is a Minimalist Image Viewer for Ubuntu (14.04 LTS etc) & Other Distributions
‘ocenaudio’ is a features rich, free audio editor for Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OS X, operating systems. Although it runs natively under Ubuntu and looks very intuitive, the interface has a native Mac OS X look which is my only complaint. …
Read more‘ocenaudio’ is a Fast & a Free Audio Editor for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Windows & Mac OS X
‘QWinFF’ is an extremely easy to use, ‘ffmpeg’ based multimedia converter for GNU/Linux & Windows. I have been checking it out from time to time & with each release, it gets better and better. With ‘QWinFF’ you can convert a …
Read moreCut, Resize & Convert Multimedia Files on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using ‘QWinFF’
Ubuntu 14.04 (code named ‘Trusty Tahr‘) is the fifth ‘Long Term Support’ release, and being as such, these releases are thoroughly tested & include less features (since they demand too much changes being made to the codes) as the targeted …
Read moreUbuntu 14.04 LTS Review – Stable, Responsive & Polished
I am not a DJ, but after seeing one of my friend’s work as a DJ, I also wanted to try it a bit (just for fun 🙂 ), and that is how I came across ‘Virtual DJ’. It is …
Read moreHow to Install ‘Virtual DJ’ (7.4.1) on Ubuntu 13.10 ?
‘I-Nex’ is a small, but a very handy utility that shows a comprehensive list of hardware (and some software) information of your computer. If you are looking for a ‘CPU-Z’ replacement for Ubuntu, then this is it!. I first came …
Read more‘I-Nex’ Lists PC Hardware Information on Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04
‘Compiz’, the window manager of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop, comes with a set of plugins that add various additional features to the window management. Though most of these do nothing but add ‘fancy effects’ (no disrespect intended 🙂 ), there are …
Read more‘Add Helper’ Helps You to Focus on the Active Window (Ubuntu 13.10)
‘FFmpegYAG’ is a free utility (a GUI for ‘FFmpeg’) that lets you easily convert audio/video files into other formats (including the ability to move into a different ‘container’ — without having to re-encode). It is available for both Microsoft Windows …
Read moreConvert Audio/Video Files in Ubuntu (13.10 …) & Windows 8 Using ‘FFmpegYAG’
Because it is directly associated with the overall responsiveness, any operating system prefers to keep the users’ most frequently used data (programs, files etc) in RAM because data on RAM can be accessed extremely fast when compared to other storage …
Read moreDoes ‘Zswap’ Really Improve Responsiveness ? (Ubuntu 13.10)
The world’s most popular open-source operating system ‘Ubuntu’ has reached the 13.10 (code named ‘Saucy Salamander’) release, although the most anticipated feature — ‘Mir’ (the new display server designed by Ubuntu developers) did not make it into the 13.10 Desktop …
Most music managers and media players come with built-in visualizations, but there are also a few, that does not. Now I am not obsessed with playing a visualization every time I listen to an audio track, however, at times, it …
Read more‘SoundWheel’ Adds a Visualization to any Audio Playback in Ubuntu (13.04, 12.10 & 12.04)
If you have a mobile device with a small screen size, then while reading PDF files it might be necessary to crop out ‘unnecessary’ white space of the pages, as it can reduce the scrolling. If you use Ubuntu, you …
