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How to install GScrot – Screenshot Tool

posted on January 17, 2009 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

Update [Â Feb 16 2009 ] – GScrot has been renamed to Shutter. GScrot is a popular screen-shot tool for Linux. GScrot is currently at version 0.64. It runs best on GNOME and has a good feature list. Capture a website, whole desktop, individual window or a custom selection. Support for delayed screen-shots. Plug-ins for [...]

Deluge 1.1.0 released

posted on January 16, 2009 in BitTorrent, Linux, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

Deluge 1.1.0 is out. Some of the major changes in the release; Labels. Proxy support. Authentication for the daemon. Per-tracker filtering. Magnet uri/hash. Improved file tabs with file/folder renaming functions. QOS support. For the full change list go to the changelog. Download here.

How to install Dropbox in Ubuntu 8.10

posted on January 5, 2009 in HowTo, Linux, Software with 6 Comments

Dropbox is my favorite online storage solution. Here’s how to install it on Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid 1. Add the Dropbox repository for Ubuntu package source file. I use /etc/apt/source.list.d/dropbox.list file. deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main Either manually add the lines above to the /etc/apt/source.list.d/dropbox.list file or run the commands below to do [...]

Firefox 3.0.5 release

posted on December 18, 2008 in Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 is out. It’s a security release so make sure you get it. Download Firefox 3.05 Fixes with this release; MFSA 2008-69 XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore MFSA 2008-68 XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation MFSA 2008-67 Escaped null characters ignored by CSS parser MFSA 2008-66 Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters [...]

GParted LiveCD for all your partitioning needs

posted on November 18, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

A friend needed to re-size his Windows NT OS partition from the default 4GB to 8GB. The easiest way to do this is with Linux, specifically with the GParted LiveCD. GParted is a Gnome based partition editor which uses the libparted library from the popular GNU Parted package to do all it’s fancy partitioning stuff. [...]

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