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Linux is all about choices. Therefore, Linux has many software tools that perform the same functionality. As an example, one may like Chrome browser as the Internet browser while some others preferring Firefox. So, the top 10 applications for year 2011 is just my selection of tools. For you, you may have your own selection […]

High Definition is everywhere nowadays. There is a huge demand for high definition media content and everything is now available in high definition. If you are a Linux user and have not been up-to-date with HD hype, you may be missing a lot of things. In case if you have tried playing HD content in

For some time, Linux was popular to be geeky. People were reluctant to come and try out Linux, thinking that it needs a lot of technical knowledge for one to just operate Linux. Therefore, people were not aware of the facilities offered by Linux, specially the free and open source software programs that did cost

VoIP, in other words, Voice over Internet Protocol, is one of the smartest innovations in the field of telecommunication. VoIP not only made the ridiculous telecommunication charges low, it also enabled the connection of many communications channels together. In VoIP, telecommunication is performed through the Interne. Therefore, almost all Internet connected devices could be connected

If you are into Linux, I’m sure that you would have heard about FreeBSD as well. Same as Linux, FreeBSD is one of popular UNIX like platforms available in the open source world. In this article, we try to understand the difference between FreeBSD and Linux. FreeBSD is based on Berkeley Software Distribution, which is

This is one of the Linux distributions with a funny name. But this is not the only one. This Linux distribution, Damn Small Linux, is what its name says. It is damn small in its size. That’s the very purpose of this Linux distribution; to be ultra small. Why Damn Small Linux? This is one

Often, you are required to access a Linux PC from a Windows PC. Depending on the requirement, you may have to access Linux PC’s command line or the graphical user interface (GUI). For the purpose of accessing Linux PCs, there are many methods and tools. In this article, we use just a couple of tools

A cron job in Linux is an automatic scheduled task. Say for instance you want to run a system maintenance operation that would remove unwanted files. You might not want to do this when you are actually using the system for it would intervene with your (more important) work. Instead of spending your working time

Although the monopoly of the desktop market is still dominated by Microsoft Windows, Linux has long since established itself as the most viable option for server based computing environments. Therefore, most of the network systems nowadays, regardless the number of hosts that are always connected through one or more Linux servers. Due to this multi-infrastructural

You may have been a regular user of Linux for some time and may have heard of compiling the Linux kernel. Your friends who are more tech savvy may have boasted about compiling Linux kernel and you might have wondered whether you will be able to do it by yourself. If this is the case,

Step by step guide to sync your iPhone in Linux Since iPhone was originally designed to be synced with iTunes in both Mac and Windows platforms, the Linux users found it hard to sync this device with Linux boxes. Although the iPhone and Linux relationship was bit shaky at the beginning, things started getting smoother

Sync your Android Phones with Linux After you got your shiny new Android based smart phone, you may have surely felt a relief due to the fact that you are no longer a prisoner of a proprietary mobile operating platform. Since Android comes with a variety of mobile phones, you have a wide collection to

Linux Scripting Linux has been a powerful platform for scripting languages. Therefore, shell programming or shell scripting has become one of the powerful parts of working in Linux. Of course, Windows systems too have the scripting capabilities, such as scripting in command prompt using DOS commands, but it was never able to compete with the

An Introduction Regular expressions are quite frequently found by Linux administrators and users. It does not have to be BASH or any other shell for using regular expressions, but you can also use any scripting language on Linux to make use of regular expressions. The regular expressions match stings of text. Yes, this is all

Man pages are Linux’s inbuilt help system for referring to commands and other technical and usage details. Man pages stands for ‘Manual pages’ and it is an extensive and comprehensive documentation system available for Linux systems. There is one man page for each and every Linux command and this man page is a self-contained document

The computer is the most ingenious device man kind invented as far as the world of multimedia and digital entertainment is concerned. The lifeline of the computer has been altered in tremendous ways with the advent of multimedia applications. Hardware has been revamped, high performance processors have been designed, software has been optimized and people

Linux is one of the best development platforms available for application development. No environment will be good for development if it does not have the right set of tools. Integrated development environments, in other words IDEs, are the popular type of developer tools at present. Since these tools have everything integrated (such as the compiler,