Archive for the ‘Free Software’ Category
Monday, April 7th, 2008
I was looking for something to help me manage my movies collection. Ubuntu comes with many collection manager applications. In this post I will talk about three of them.
GCstar
Predecessor of Gcfilms which is not developed any more. GCstar is not just a movie manager. Basically it is a collection manager ...
Posted in Free Software, Linux, Ubuntu, applications | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Ok so you have installed Ubuntu and loved the pretty and easy Gnome interface, now what? May be you are thinking, that this Ubuntu is just another operating system. It is indeed just another operating system. But, this one is a Debian Linux based operating system. Sooner or later you ...
Posted in Debian, Free Software, Gnome, Tips, Ubuntu, applications | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
I have a 4 year old niece, Minahil. She has an interest in my computer. Her parents don't own a computer at home, so whenever she is visiting us with her mom, she likes to sit with me when I am working and ask me questions. I am not ...
Posted in Free Software, Games, Ubuntu | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
So many people complained to me that they do not enjoy gaim because it does not supports Yahoo! web cam. Personally I don't like web cams, but there are so many people out there who love to use Yahoo! messenger with web cam support. I wanted to assure people that ...
Posted in Dapper, Free Software, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu, Web | 4 Comments »
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
We have recently made little but very significant progress toward the translation of Ubuntu in Urdu. When I joined the Ubuntu community, we already had Ubuntu Pakistani Team and Ubuntu Urdu Translators team. Both had a few members, bad Wiki pages and no community leaders at all. Following the guidelines ...
Posted in Free Software, Gnome, Pakistan, Translations, Ubuntu, Urdu, community | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Once you have Ubuntu GNU/Linux installed and you find it useful then it is the time for you to consider ways to contribute in Ubuntu. Ubuntu Wiki now has a detailed page Contribute to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is most of all a community. All of the software, artwork and documentation in Ubuntu ...
Posted in Free Software, GNU, Linux, Pakistan, Ubuntu, Urdu, activism, community | 3 Comments »
Monday, August 7th, 2006
I was asking myself, if Linux and GNU based software are so good, free and legal then why Pakistanis don't go for them. Some reasons are pretty obvious and others, we will have to figure those out.
Pakistanis who spend their time in front of computers at work are forced to ...
Posted in Free Software, GNU, Information Society, Linux, Pakistan, activism, community | 3 Comments »