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VLC 1.1.0 for Linux – Complete Review

Ashik — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:48:39 +0000

As always, VideoLAN has come up with interesting tweaks, updates and enhancements to its all popular VLC media player with the release of version 1.1.0. Among some of the new features introduced by the VLC 1.1.0 player we can mention: GPU decoding using VAAPI for H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1 DSP decoding using OpenMax IL Improved seeking for

Access Google from your Terminal

Ashik — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:39:42 +0000

This weekend, Google proudly announced GoogleCL, a set of new command-line tools for some of its popular services, such as Google Calendar, Google Docs, Blogger, YouTube and Picasa. GoogleCL will allow you to upload photos to Picasa and videos to YouTube, add Google Calendar events or contacts on Google Contacts, edit Google Docs documents or post on your Blogger blog... all straight from the Linux terminal. Well, you will say now... "Who needs this stuff? We are in mid 2010 and command-line is for geeks only." You are right! But this is a very good opportunity for some developers to create a nice graphical user interface (GUI) for this command-line tool.

Enable Automatic Login in Ubuntu Server

Ashik — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:13:03 +0000

Ubuntu makes it easy to enable automatic login if you’re using a login manager such as GDM. But what to do in case you don't have GDM. Here’s how to enable automatic login.

How to Keep Your Ubuntu System Clean

Ashik — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:49:09 +0000

If you are an geeky user who keeps installing various software and updates then with the passage of time you will feel that your system is messed up. Ubucleaner is a shell script which lets you clean your Ubuntu system by removing the following:

apt cache
Config file for Uninstalled .deb packages
Unused Kernels

Prevent Accidental Shutdown/Reboot in Ubuntu

Ashik — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:28:40 +0000

If you are a command line geek then you would have often entered the wrong commands many times, some of which could lead to accidental shutdown/restart. Molly-Guard is a command line script which prevents you from accidentally shutting down or rebooting your Ubuntu system.