A Video Editor for Ubuntu: Cinelerra!

Cinelerra is a very powerful (although not the one with the best GUI though, lol) non-liner video editor for Ubuntu. Well, not just for Ubuntu ... it supports a lot of GNU/Linux distributions by default. But for this review, I'm gonna be using Ubuntu.Cinelerra actually come from a previous project called "Broadcast 2000" but around 2002, the developers made the decision to release it using this name. And ever since, the Cinelerra community, slowly...

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Flush: A Torrent Client for Ubuntu

Although original idea behind the BitTorrent protocol has nothing to do about "illegal" stuff but all about sharing legal (also known as legal torrents), online file sharing between computer users using this revolutionary and awesome protocol.Anyhow, I don't actually remember the exact data, but it was said that BitTorrent protocol has its fare share of the Internet bandwidth (more than a "fare share" :D) thus some ISP even had to come up with their...

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PDFedit: A Powerful PDF Editor for Ubuntu Linux!

These days finding a decent PDF editor for GNU/Linux ain't that hard mainly due to the popularity of Ubuntu (I think :D). Although I'm not a PDF editing dude my self and have a very little knowledge about the subject as well. When Adobe first released the PDF standard it was actually a proprietary standard and it was like that until recently (around 2008) that they realized to make it an open standard. I think it also must have helped the open-source...

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How to Read Ext4/Ext3 File Systems in MS Windows?

Ext4 is the latest version of the "Ext" journaling file system of GNU/Linux. I think it was Ext2, few years ago which was the main file system. It was really a big pain in the as* because at that time you had to like, check the file system after a certain number of mounts or system boots. It also used to take a long time to check for errors where MS Windows XP was also around at that time with the impressive NTFS file system too.Anyhow, it's quite...

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How to Mount an ISO Disk Image in Ubuntu?

ISO image file is actually a form of an archive. That's why if we have an archive manager installed in whatever your OS is, we can read the content of an ISO disk image file with ease.Although unlike other standard archive formats such as .tar.gz, .rar, .zip, etc the data inside an ISO disk image is not compressed thus we can make an ISO image out of any CD/DVD or even Blu-Ray disk by using a disc authorizing software on-the-fly, without having to...

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KeePassX: Best (free) Password Manager for Ubuntu (GNU/Linux)!

Not that long ago... all I had for my online accounts was my primary e-mail account and, well, I think that was it actually!. But these days I have a lot of online accounts, stored in my PC (I arrogantly refuse to store them using apps like Dropbox, 'cause I feel threatened by the idea of the Cloud computing :D) but I do make sure to keep then encrypted nonetheless. While using the MS Windows I use the excellent Roboform utility which basically saves...

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Recuva: Recover Deleted files for Free!

It's a bit sad that even after all these years still I haven't come up with a deleted file recover GUI tool for GNU/Linux other than the command-line utilities (so if you know one, please tell me about it :D). But luckily if you use MS Windows, there a huge list of free applications that lets you recover deleted files but after using for a long time, I'm quite fond of the one called "Recuva".But the point is, no matter what utility that...

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Speccy: an Excellent, System Information Utility for Windows

Apparently, apart from GNU/Linux, there's this whole other operating system called MS Windows :P and I thought that I should write a few articles for the MS Windows users from time to time as well. So, if you use Microsoft windows and searching for a free tool to get advanced system information about your PC, although I'm pretty sure there's a whole bunch of 'em out there, but this one called "Speccy" is an excellent little utility in my experience.To...

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How to Create a USB, Bootable ISO image in Ubuntu?

Although the optical disk ain't gonna be dead anytime sooner ;-) yet because of the popularity of netbooks or Tablet PC type electronic gadgets and when it comes to installing Ubuntu operating system in on them, USB devices (such as pen drives for instance) is the least expensive and sometimes the only way to perform the installation.Even if you have an Optical drive, still trying a GNU/Linux liveCD on a USB drive is the best option in my opinion...

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How to Install the Stack Exchange Network Applet (StackApplet) in Ubuntu?

If you're a part of the Stack Exchange Network and already trying to keep up with all the questions and answers like crazy ;-)... which probably ain't the most easiest job in the world at all. But yes, you can manage your accounts within the SEN network with ease but you'll always have to keep an eye on the web browser to know whether you've been asked of something (yikes! :P) or anyone is in need of your expert advice, etc.Wouldn't it be nice if...

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How to Remove the "Ubuntu Modifications" in Firefox Web Browser?

Ubuntu uses the highly secured Firefox :) as the default web browser... but Mark Shuttleworth did say that in the future Ubuntu "might" switch to the faster, more simpler Chrome web browser.Anyhow, as a way of branding and giving/enabling the users more optimized Ubuntu experience, Ubuntu developers make sure to add their own customizations to the Firefox web browser that comes in the default ISO image + in the repositories which you'd use to install...

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Startup-Manager: A Utility to Edit GRUB Boot-loader related Options Easily in Ubuntu

Startup-Manager is a graphical tool that's written in the GTK+ toolkit which was developed for letting the users of Debian GNU/Linux OS to easily edit few "boot-related" options such as GRUB menu delay, Splash screen, other security related settings, etc.But since Ubuntu is based on the awesome Debian ;-), SturtupManager can also be installed and used to edit few of those settings in Ubuntu as well. The reason I said, "few of those settings" is because,...

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How to Install GIMP 2.7 in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 11.10, 10.10 and 10.04?

Without A doubt, GIMP is one of the best raster image editors for GNU/Linux (also available for other operating system such as MS Windows and Mac OSX, etc as well).It also has quite a history with GNU/Linux too, especially with the Gnome desktop since, if I'm not mistaken, GTK toolkit (which is the building block of Gnome desktop interface) was actually designed for the purpose of creating the GIMP at the first place.Although apart from its popularity,...

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Fedora 16 Alpha is Released!

Well, the stubborn boys and gals :) working in the Fedora community has made the official announcement of the availability of the Fedora 16 Alpha 1 which the first step towards the upcoming Fedora 16. Fedora was actually one of the first distributions to include the Gnome 3.0 (yikes!) by default with the introduction of the current version 15.Just like with Ubuntu where you have certain different desktop versions aimed at different users such as...

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Nautilus-Actions: Adding New Functions to Nautilus Right-Click Menu has Never been this Easy!

Gnome desktop didn't used to like this simple you know. Apparently it used to come with a huge list of features and configuration options which were cleaned up about 80-90% when the made the switch to the Gnome 2+ back in the day (around 2000-2001 I think).These days it's pretty much simple and it has been heavily criticized by many + by myself too (apparently someone called Linus Torvalds was one of them :)). Although I wrote that post few months...

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