Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Photo Management Applications

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

After disliking camera phones and people using camera phones for a long long time, I finally gave up and bought myself one. I am totally in love with my new camera phone. I love it for making things so easier. I can plugin my phone and share pictures and videos ...

Ubuntu for Bad Guys

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

I am Muslim and we don't really celebrate Christmas here in Pakistan. So Satanic or Christian doesn't matter to me. But since downloading the Satanic Edition was easier I decided to give it a try, besides I was already feeling like downloading some new wallpapers for a change and this ...

Deleting Unwanted Files

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Recently I realized that the Disks utility was showing 8.6 GiB consumed on my Ubuntu partition (I have Xubuntu installed on another partition and have one FAT partition). I decided to free up some disk space by deleting temporary files. I found that there is no tool in Dapper to ...

Troubleshoot Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade

Monday, November 13th, 2006

I haven't upgraded to Edgy yet. I really want to but I am afraid to loose the stability, usefulness and the charm of Dapper that comes with Long Term Support. I was looking around to see what kind of trouble people facing while upgrading to Edgy from Dapper. To my ...

GYachE - Yahoo Webcam on Ubuntu Linux

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 ...

Linux Command Line Interface

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

I have started to like the Terminal. Like all those people who never used anything else other than MS Windows OS, I was afraid of doing things by typing commands manually. I wanted graphical user interface for every thing. Now that I am using Ubuntu for sometime, I have realized ...

Whats New in Ubuntu 6.10

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

I am excited all over again on the new release of Ubuntu. Expected to be released next month but the beta version is currently availabe for download. It has: Firefox 2.0 RC 1 (code named: Bon Echo): New Theme (Tangerine) and user interface have been updated to improve usability. It has inline spell ...