Archive : Open Source

Memory Cards are as much a part of our daily computing as hard disks and RAM is. The Digital cameras that we use everyday, the mobile phones that we rely on and even some of those tiny netbooks that we use, more often than not use some kind of memory card based storage to store data. Improvements in...

Apple’s iPod music player is the most popular music player on the planet. The iPod along with the iTunes store has revolutionized not only the music industry but also the complete music distribution business. It is this music business that has brought back Apple, the company, from the brink of...

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 player ? With the increasingly fast broadband connections that...

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 hilarious/interesting...

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 desktop...

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 we will...

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...

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...

Most websites these days use rounded corners for almost all website elements. Creating rounded corners isn’t easy since it requires creating perfectly aligned images and well, you need to be a photoshop or a GIMP ninja, which I’m definitely not. So, I went looking for a better solution and...

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...