Google webfonts is an excellent resource of free fonts that is used by web developers to get better fonts for their websites. Some popular fonts include droid sans, pt sans, noto sans and open sans. They are not only used on webpages but also on desktops. I wrote a post about getting using these google… Read More »
Flareget – The flashget for linux Flareget is a featureful file download manager for linux. The conventional file download managers available for ubuntu/linux are kget, wget, curl etc. But each of them has some sort of limitation or lacks certain features not making them easy for common users. This is where flareget comes in. It… Read More »
Softmaker Freeoffice Softmaker Freeoffice is an office suite that is available for both windows and linux, with a free and paid version. The free version can be downloaded from the website The suite provides the following 3 applications Textmaker This is the wordprocessor. Supports microsoft formats like docx and doc. However the free version can… Read More »
Gedit is the default text editor on gnome desktop. If you notice that it takes quite some time to launch after clicking the menu icon, then here is a simple trick that can speed it up. 1. Open gedit. 2. Go to Edit > Preferences, Plugins tab. 3. Disable the plugin named "File Browser Panel"…. Read More »
VNC – Virtual Network Computing VNC is a remote desktop sharing protocol that can be used to control the desktop of a remote system over the local network of internet. To setup desktop sharing with vnc, a vnc server has to be installed on the remote desktop that shall be controlled. And a vnc client… Read More »
By default google chrome would keep webgl features disabled if your gpu driver does not support 3d acceleration. However there are options to force enable it. To enable webgl in Google Chrome launch it with the following flags –enable-webgl –ignore-gpu-blacklist Here is the command: $ google-chrome –enable-webgl –ignore-gpu-blacklist Now test webgl by opening the following… Read More »
WebGL WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D graphics and 2D graphics[2] within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. It is analogous to a 3D graphics api like OpenGL but runs inside a web browser and programmed in javascript instead of C or C++. The important thing… Read More »
I recently needed to convert some mp3 audio files to ogg format so that the html5 audio tag could play them in mozilla firefox. Had to search a bit to find out how to do this easily and here are the results. There is an excellent application called soundconverter ( soundkonverter for kde users )…. Read More »
Open ports When running any kind of server application like http or ftp server, or doing socket programming, it might so happen that a server program when recompiled/rerun fails to bind to a particular port number because that port number is already in use. In such a case, you can either restart the system or… Read More »
Nameservers are special servers running a DNS service to provide the ip address of a particular domain name. Different domains have different nameservers. Usually the nameservers are hosted and managed by the hosting server provider. If you are hosting your website on Bluehost for instance, the nameservers would be those of bluehost. Whereas if you… Read More »
Dropdown terminal is a very useful utility that shows a command line terminal in a dropdown popup on the screen just by pressing a button like F12. These provide easy access to the command line and enhance productivity on Linux Desktop. There are multiple packages available for Ubuntu and similar distros, that provide a dropdown… Read More »
Netcat is a commandline utility like telnet but with much more features. Learn to use netcat with these simple commands examples.
Arp-scan Arp-scan is a commandline utility for linux that can be used to scan the network of a certain interface for alive hosts. It shows the ip address and mac addresses of all the hosts/nodes found. Project website Install on ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install arp-scan The documentation can be found at Usage Quick example… Read More »
The most common compressed archive file format in Linux is the tar.gz format. Tar file is an archive file format. Tar.gz is a compressed tar file. Create tar.gz archives The tar command can be used to create tar.gz archives. tar czf new-tar-file-name.tar.gz file-or-folder-to-archive Here is the command explanation: c – create new archive. z -… Read More »
SQLite Database Browser is a freeware, public domain, open source visual tool used to create, design and edit database files compatible with SQLite. It is meant to be used for users and developers that want to create databases, edit and search data using a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, without the need to learn complicated SQL commands…. Read More »
Here is a list of most popular puzzle games on Ubuntu Linux Marble Arena 2 Excellent graphics and colorful. This is a game where a marble is to be moved around and points to be collected. Project website http://www.marble-arena.com/ Install on ubuntu 1. Download Linux version from http://www.marble-arena.com/ 2. Install libwebkit1.1-cil from synaptic 3. Extract… Read More »
There are a lot of IDEs for ubuntu for doing php related web development. Lets see a few. Aptana Studio Supports PHP, Ruby, Python and more. Autosuggest dropdowns available, Integrated preview available. Project website http://www.aptana.com/ Install on ubuntu Download from http://www.aptana.com/ Quanta Quanta is the Dreamweaver of Linux. However it is not developed anymore. As… Read More »
How to setup a jailed shell on Ubuntu using jailkit.
Quick guide on how to compile and install jailkit on Ubuntu/Debian based linux systems.
I upgraded my ubuntu few hours back from 11.04 to 11.10 ; it all went fine. After the upgrade I noticed that Quanta – my favorite php development tool had vanished. Doing few searches on google lead to the information that its now deprecated and not maintained in the repos anymore. So I got it… Read More »