Wouldn’t it be useful if your computer could email you? I’d like to be notified by email when my server is in trouble, but I don’t want to run my own mail server. sSMTP is perfect for this; it’s a simple way to send email from your system to an SMTP mail server, like Gmail’s. [...]
Money Manager Ex© is a free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one’s finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a bird’s eye view of your financial worth.
Money Manager includes all the basic features that 90% of users [...]
Unison is a simple tool that allows you to synchronize your files between two locations. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to [...]
From an old mailing list gem, I got the right method to back up your Evolution (mail + calendar + contacts) data the right way:
Step 1:
Shutdown evolution and gconftool-2:
$gconftool-2 –shutdown
$evolution –force-shutdown
Step 2:
Create an archive with the data and configuration files:
Note: To completely save the Evolution data and configuration, you need to save the following directories/files:
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Picasa is free photo software from Google. This version is Linux compatible. Picasa won’t delete your pictures or put them online without your permission. This is a preview of the upcoming release of Picasa 3 for Ubuntu.
Important Note:- This is still in beta version and it might break your System
New Features
* [...]
If you are bothered that you can’t create html signature in Gmail or other web-based email accounts, WiseStamp could probably be the answer to your problem.
WiseStamp is a Firefox extension that allows you to create and insert rich HTML signature for your Web-based email accounts, including Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL mail. After you have [...]
This document will guide you through the necessary steps to configure a Drupal driven mail server. It provides the following features:
Drupal managed email accounts, support for virtual domains, automatic forwarding, Postfix quota support, silent BCC monitoring, anti-spam, anti-virus.
Read more at HowtoForge
Flash Player 10 adds new filters, 3D effects, better typography support, and more. For Linux users this version offers windowless mode support (transparency through Flash, and page elements rendered above Flash), V4L2 camera support, smooth fullscreen video playback, and better performance.
Read more at Tombuntu
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