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FLVMeta Adds Metadata In FLV Video Files

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FLV files are a great and popular method of sharing videos online, but a key element lacking is metadata. The usefulness of such can not be underestimated; metadata stores a lot of useful information about any kind of media, be it images, videos, music etc. Hence such information in FLV files can be similarly beneficial. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do that. Adding metadata to these files is for advance users, and if you are willing to take the pain, FLVmeta is a tool that can help you. Read More

Instant Screen Capture, Upload And Sharing

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Screen captures are one of the most widely used features from a computer user’s point of view. In some capacity, they are used by almost everyone. We have covered a few tools in this category, and yet there is always a new tool that offers something new, something different. So holds true with Gyazo. Read More

Convert Your Images Into HD Videos With Photo Film Strip

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Photo slideshows are rather fun to watch, but they are not that friendly when it comes to compatibility over various viewing media. Photo Film Strip takes this concept to a new level, and created stunning, beautiful movies out of your images in few simple and easy steps. A tool that would appeal to both amateur and professional photographers. Read More

Linux Live USB Creator & Virtualization Tool

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There are already many tools which allow users to create a bootable USB drive with any version of Linux distro; UNetbootin, MultiBoot, and Ubuntu Live USB Creator, being the popular ones and Fedore Live USB Creator, Free USB Installer, and PendriveLinux’s being the lesser popular ones. Linux Live USB Creator is a powerful all-in-one tool to rule them all. Read More

Chrometric – Browser For The Color Blind [Vision Deficient]

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According to Wikipedia, color blindness is more frequent than people know. People can have some degree of color vision deficiency and not realize it throughout their lives. This may affect various aspects of life; stopping at traffic lights, reading stock charts, and ever online browsing experience. You may not be seeing what the developer of a website intended you to see, because your eyes cannot differentiate. Read More

Track And Find Your Stolen Laptop With Prey

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It is always a pain to lose something, both financially and in terms of the emotional stress that a person goes through. And if it is something as valuable as a laptop, which contains your personal data, the damage becomes even more pronounced. Laptops come these days with Kensington lock slots, but you cannot find a Kensington lock everywhere as well. So what is the solution? Read More

Android Ported To iPhone

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Yes, it is possible and it is here! The famous iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing has successfully ported the Android OS to iPhone 2G, bringing something to the device that users have waited for a long time. In his blog post made yesterday, planetbeing shared a video with the world that shows an iPhone 2G successfully running Android OS. Check out the video after the jump. Read More

SecurStick – Encrypt USB stick data without administrator privileges

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Data encryption tools like TrueCrypt, BestCrypt or FreeOTFE are perfectly well suited for encryption of USB drives or putting encrypted container files on USB sticks. Unfortunately, this does not guarantee a safe and completely portable storage facility. The problem lies with the necessary evil of a driver that needs to be installed in order to mount the encrypted files (or partitions) on the system. If one does not have administrator privileges on the operating system, the only way to be able to use an encrypted volume is to ask an administrator to pre-install the software... on every single computer you might just want to use your encrypted data. Well, not anymore. Read More

Avoid Password Prompt When Executing The Sudo Command

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If you have experience of working on the command line in Ubuntu then you are probably familiar with the sudo command, whenever you run the sudo command as a non root user then the system prompts you to enter the administrator's password. This is a seriously annoying process. Read More

Ubuntu Derivatives

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Ubuntu is one of the best community developed operating systems and is a great choice for laptops, desktops and servers. There are several operating systems in the market which have been derived from Ubuntu, so such operating systems are called Ubuntu Derivatives. Read More

How To Get Line Number Count In Vim Editor

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Vim is one of the most commonly used editors in all Linux based systems. Home users and Server administrators both use the Vim editor to create/edit files. If you have ever edited a large file with Vim then you probably have faced the problem of finding some particular line number. Let me share an easy way to display the line number count in Vim. Read More

Speed Up OpenOffice With Simple Memory Tweak

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If you are a Linux user then the best available native tool for word or document processing is OpenOffice. It works great and has fulfilled the needs of industry professionals over the years, lets see some great tweaks which you can apply. Read More

Shred – Permanently Delete Files In Ubuntu Linux

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In case you want to delete some confidential data from your computer just to make sure that it is no longer accessible to anyone, then do not delete the file using the regular rm command because there will still remain a chance that someone might use a software to recover your deleted data before the specific storage area is overwritten by new data. The proper way to permanently dispose of such data in Linux is the shred command. Read More

Reduce The Boot Menu Time In Ubuntu Linux

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Whenever Ubuntu boots up, you see a GRUB menu, it stays on the screen for some time, if you have any other secondary operating system installed then you can choose to boot that operating system from this Boot Menu. This is basically a timeout setting, if you think that your Grub menu display time is more than necessary, then its very easy to change the value of this timeout parameter. Read More

Slurm – Linux Utility For Resource Management

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Slurm is basically a network monitoring tool. It lets you monitor the traffic on your network interfaces, this traffic monitoring and analysis becomes very vital in many situations, particularly if you are performing analysis. It is a real-time, command line utility so it comes in handy for those who work on remote Linux servers and have to take care of such things often. Read More

EPDFViewer – Lightweight PDF Viewer For Ubuntu Linux

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Most  PDF Viewers consume a lot of time  to render PDF files especially if the file has high resolution images. If you want a faster lightweight version then you can try viewing your PDF documents quickly with the help of ePDFViewer.  It has a very simple user interface,  is extremely fast, and does not consume much resource of the system. Read More