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How to set up gedit for web development

Sat, 2009-07-11 09:44

gedit is one of the little gems that you can find in the default install of any of the major Linux distributions in which you have/can choose to install the Gnome desktop environment (Fedora, Mandriva, Mint, openSUSE, Ubuntu etc.)

You usually find it in your Applications menu, under the Accessories category, with the name of Text Editor.

As you can see in the screenshot the default layout and functionality is pretty basic.

We're going to change it to provide additional functionality needed for the daily usage as a web development editor.

Author: CoolGoose

How to fix VirtualBox 3 cpuload when running CentOS 5 guest

Fri, 2009-07-10 16:55

The problem

I was trying to run more than 8 Centos 5.3 virtual machines using VirtualBox 3 on Ubuntu 9.04 and I was running into high cpu load (80-90% cpu load when the virtual machines were idle).

Author: CoolGoose

Google announces Google Chrome OS

Wed, 2009-07-08 23:54

About Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

Facts

  • Lightweight, web focused OS
  • Will work on x86 as well as arm pc's
  • Initial targets the netbook market
  • It's a separated project from Android
  • Uses the Linux kernel

Supposedly even if Chrome OS and Android overlap this won't present a problem. Android remains a mobile phone / smart-phone / netbook operating system and Chrome OS will target netbooks and regular PC's.

Resources

Announcement

Author: CoolGoose

VLC media player 1.0.0 Release

Tue, 2009-07-07 19:48

VideoLAN project announced the release of VLC media player 1.0.0
VLC media player 1.0.0 Ubuntu Linux
For those of you that don't know

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Resources:

Announcement | Download

Author: CoolGoose

openSUSE 11.1 Review

Sun, 2009-07-05 17:26

openSUSE is one of the few Linux distributions which seems to evolve by leaps and bounds with every new release. Although numbered as an incremental upgrade from version 11.0, openSUSE 11.1 contains enough improvements and new features to be well worth an install, even by users already running the previous release.

Author: John Doe

Battle of the Twitter clients: TweetDeck vs Seesmic Desktop

Sun, 2009-07-05 14:37

Anyone who is connected to the Internet knows that the most of the current business models should be modeled around social networks to provide a good PR, and Twitter right now is one of the most talked about platform.

Now with this in mind many companies brought forward many social platform applications that can connect and manage multiple accounts with popular networking sites.
TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop are two such applications,both offer a good set of features but which one is better? Lets take a look at both applications.

Author: John Doe

Wine 1.1.25

Sat, 2009-07-04 10:22

The Wine development release 1.1.25 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • A ton of translation updates.
  • Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad.
  • Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL.
  • Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically.
  • Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementation.
  • Various bug fixes.

Announcement | Download

Author: CoolGoose

10 windows security tips for beginners

Fri, 2009-07-03 17:54

Well, aren't you tired of using tools that should offer you improved security but just make your system slower ?
Well here are a few tips for you to make your Windows a bit more safer and smoother.

Author: John Doe

3 Alternative CD Ripping applications on Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Wed, 2009-07-01 23:54

The age of the "mighty" Blu-ray discs is here but still ever wondered where you can get those free cd ripping softwares for your PC or Mac?
Well here's our choice of some alternative ripping software that you may or may not know about.

Author: John Doe

Firefox 3.5 Released

Tue, 2009-06-30 22:48

After several delays Firefox 3.1 3.5 is released.

Download | Firefox 3.5 Features

Author: CoolGoose
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