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Access Google from your Terminal
Jun 21st
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 More >
Things to know before Replacing Windows by Linux
May 20th
All those who have been using Windows since Long and want to try linux then you should prepare yourself before facing Linux. Here I have tried to list out some similaritites as well Differences among the two operating systems which will be helpful to when you start with Linux. Here my aim was not to determine which OS is better but to make you aware about the new things which you might not be aware of Linux and might be confusing for you at first but as the time will pass all the things will be clear and you will More >
4 Tools to play Windows Games on Linux
Apr 14th
Playing Windows games on Linux is not really a difficult task. Most gamers are reluctant to migrate to Linux because they have this misconception that Windows games cannot be played on Linux. How wrong they are. If you are one of those avid gamers that I mentioned above, here are 4 ways that you can play Windows games on Linux.
1) Wine
The name “WINE” derives from the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator.. The obvious way to install any Windows applications on Linux is via Wine. At the time when WineHQ released the stable 1.0 version, it has already supported More >
Run linux apps on Windows
Apr 14th
It is a known fact that the Linux community has been trying to woo Windows users to convert to the open-source operating system: The latest version of Ubuntu comes with a Wubi installer that allows you to try Hardy Heron in Windows (without physically install it) and now came Ulteo Virtual Desktop that enable you to use Linux application just like a native Windows app.
Ulteo first begins as a developer of online desktop where its users can access a full KDE desktop on the Web. Using the same suite of its online desktop applications, it further develop the virtual desktop that integrates the More >
Increase Swap Memory in Linux
Apr 7th
In Linux, as in most other Unix-like operating systems, it is common to use a whole partition of a hard disk for swapping. However, with the 2.6 Linux kernel, swap files are just as fast as swap partitions, although Red Hat recommends using a swap partition. The administrative flexibility of swap files outweighs that of partitions; since modern high capacity hard drives can remap physical sectors, no partition is guaranteed to be contiguous. You can add swap file as a dedicated partition or use following instructions to create a swap file.
Procedure to add a swap fileYou need to use More >
