Sooner or later, we all end up installing new software on our computers. Whether it’s a new version of Firefox, or a cool game, or a video editing package, there comes a time when you want to make your system do more than it can do now.
Under Linux, installing new applications isn’t a particularly hard [...]
Skype is software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.
Skype is a very popular closed-source [...]
Skype is software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.
Method 1
Preparing your system
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In order to make your application appear in the Add/Remove tool (gnome-app-install), there are two steps to make:
* add a “X-AppInstall-Package” line to your .desktop
* and run “update-app-install” to update the database
Setting up the .desktop
The application presents to the user a list of applications which can be installed or removed. These applications are either [...]
LedgerSMB is a fork of a popular general ledger software package called SQL-Ledger largely written and maintained by Dieter Simader. SMB is an acronym for Small Medium Business.
I need to upgrade my LedgerSMB installation, but I dint find any easy tutorial, how to made this upgrade. But is very simple.
I have LedgerSMB installed at my [...]
InkScape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, [...]
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Read more at www.susegeek.com
aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone for Windows,Linux,Unix & Mac with features like offline messaging, voice clips, picture display, custom emoticons, webcam support, full speed file transfer, chat logs etc
Read more at www.susegeek.com
You can go to a particular line or word in a file using vi in several ways:
* To make vi start at a particular line in a file, add +line_num to the command you use to start vi. Replace line_num with the line number, for example: vi +36 foo.c
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Amarok gained its huge popularity due to a vast number of features and very good functionality, like a complex collection management, support for iPod and several other MP3/Ogg players, integration with Wikipedia, lyrics fetching, support for scripts, cover manager, dynamic playlists, podcasts. And these are to only list a few. The latest Amarok version, 1.4.9.1, [...]
Amarok is a wonderful application for managing and playing your music collection, but the default settings aren’t optimized for speed when it comes to large collections of music. The problems are especially noticeable while trying to use the search box.
The problem is that the default embedded database uses sqlite to store the collection information, which [...]
This guide explains how you can install Joomla 1.5.6
on a lighttpd web server on Debian Etch. Joomla comes with an .htaccess
file with mod_rewrite rules (for Apache) (to enable search-engine
friendly URLs) that do not work on lighttpd. Fortunately Joomla has a
built-in method to make search-engine friendly URLs work on lighttpd as
well.
Read more at HowtoForge
vitetris is a free opensource Tetris clone for the terminal that doesn’t use ncurses. It features configurable keys, a high score table, and 2-player mode. Gameplay is much like the early Tetris games. This build of vitetris does not have support for X11 terminal resizing but has no dependency on X11 runtime libraries to be [...]
AbiWord is a free opensource word processing program like Microsoft Word or Openoffice. Abiword is a light weight multi-platform word processor and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun.
Some of the features apart [...]
Celestia is a free opensource space simulation software that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia provides photo-realistic, real-time, three-dimensional viewing of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe and has become a valuable tool for education in Astronomy. Celestia is used in homes, schools, museums and planetariums around the world, it [...]