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WinFF – a media convertor for (almost) any format

By Sharninder | Published: August 24, 2009
How many times have you come across a movie or a video clip and wished that you could put it on your iPod and watch it on the go ? Or came across a DivX encoded video and wished that you could burn it to a DVD and play it on an old style DVD [...]
Also posted in Open Source, Windows | Tagged convert video, ffmpeg, iphone, ipod, winff | 1 Comment

Download youtube videos to your computer on Linux

By Sharninder | Published: July 28, 2009
Youtube is by far the most popular site for sharing videos. The only problem with uploading your videos to youtube is that there really is no easy way to download those videos back to your computer. Your only option than is to view them online. There are also times when you watch a video so [...]
Posted in Linux | Tagged download videos, Linux, ubuntu, youtube | 2 Comments

How to create a secure and private network

By Sharninder | Published: July 16, 2009
Picture this – You’re out on the road for work or pleasure and have this sudden urge to listen to that one song from your collection which is stored on your desktop back at home. Or you’re a freelancer and need access the draft proposal you made for a client which is again on your [...]
Also posted in Useful Utilities, Windows | Tagged Linux, Networking, VPN, Windows | 4 Comments

How to schedule tasks in GNOME using gnome-schedule

By Sharninder | Published: April 6, 2009
Most Linux/Unix veterans use cron to schedule tasks on their machines and it is a very powerful utility for what it does. The problem with cron is the cryptic syntax which tends to scare away most new users and the fact that a user has to use the terminal to create a new job. In this tutorial [...]
Also posted in Tips and tricks | Tagged howto, Linux, schedule tasks, task scheduler | 2 Comments

Elisa – Open Source Cross platform Media center

By Sharninder | Published: March 5, 2009
Ellisa is an open source media center that can play DVDs, VCDs, video files and even display your photos. The support for video files is extensive and the player can handle almost any video that you might throw at it. Elisa is extensible and is based on a very neat plugin architecture, which means that [...]
Also posted in Windows | Tagged Linux, opensource, Windows | 2 Comments

Play Space Invaders in Openoffice Calc

By Sharninder | Published: March 4, 2009
Who said open source developers were a boring bunch of people. I’m quite sure that person hasn’t met the developers of Calc. For those of you who’ve been living under a rock until now, Calc is the Spreadsheet part of the OpenOffice.org suite and today we are going to unearth a very cool easter egg game [...]
Posted in Linux | Tagged easter egg, Linux, opensource | Leave a comment

How to install *.rpm files in Ubuntu

By Sharninder | Published: February 25, 2009
Ubuntu (and all Debian based) distributions use the .deb format for application packages and these days most developers writing applications for Linux provide a .deb package. But, even then there might be times when you want to install an application which is available only in the .rpm format. If you use Ubuntu or any other Debian [...]
Posted in Linux | Tagged Linux, ubuntu, useful tools, Useful Utilities | Leave a comment

Disable spatial mode in GNOME’s Nautilus file browser

By Sharninder | Published: February 8, 2009
I’m a big GNOME fan and have been using it ever since it was first released. Ofcourse, like all software, not all is good with the GNOME project also and some of the decisions made by the developers are just plain absurd to me. One such decision was making the Spatial mode on Nautilus as the [...]
Posted in Linux | Tagged gnome, Linux, Tips and tricks, useful tricks | 5 Comments

Clone an Ubuntu system using Synaptic Markings

By Sharninder | Published: February 5, 2009
How many times have you had to reinstall the OS on your computer and then had to install all your favorite pieces of software by hand. I’m sure it’s quite painful. And even more so when you forget to install a couple of software and then have to install them in a crunch when you [...]
Posted in Linux | Tagged Linux, Tips and tricks, ubuntu, useful tools, Useful Utilities | 2 Comments

Recover data from an iPhone backup

By Sharninder | Published: February 3, 2009
My sister lost her iPhone a couple of days back and with that all her contacts, notes and calender entries that she had painstakingly stored on the device. Her only hope of getting all that important data back was the backup that she had taken a couple of days earlier and she asked me to help [...]
Also posted in Mac OS X | Tagged iphone, iTunes, Linux, Mac OS X, opensource | 53 Comments
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