SMPlayer is a free and open source media player for Windows and Linux. It is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer. SMPlayer is a very good alternative to VLC media player. It is faster than VLC and can play almost all video and audio formats. You don’t need to download and install [...]

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04. It went successfully. After I restarted my computer, I get a black screen at the time of login. Hence, I am unable to insert my login to my computer. However, I was able to login in recovery mode. I googled for solutions. Used the keywords like [...]

VI is a display oriented interactive text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. It is available by default on all UNIX systems. It is supplied with all Linux distributions. Here is a simple and quick VI command tutorial.

CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, that consists of a collection of HTML pages and an index. CHM files are not recognized by Linux and they cannot be open using any default application.

CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, that consists of a collection of HTML pages and an index. CHM files are not recognized by Linux and they cannot be open using any default application.

Zip is the most common archiving format. It is avialable on all operative systems such as Linux, Windows and Mac. However, it does not offer the best level of compression as compared to tar.gz and tar.bz2. Tar is very common archiving format in Linux. Tar.gz is better than tar compression. And, tar.bz2 is the the [...]

Here are some linux commands to change the permission of files and folders/directories. chmod is used change the file system mode / permission of files and folders.

Here are step-by-step commands about installing apache, php, mysql, and phpmyadmin on ubuntu. 1) Open Terminal – Press: CTRL + ALT + T

PHPEclipse is a PHP development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework. And, XDebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. I am using Ubuntu Operating System. This article provides a step-by-step guide on installing and setting up XDebug in PHP Eclipse in Ubuntu.

There are different ways to get RAM size, Hard disk size, processor size, etc. in Ubuntu. Here are some:- 1. From System -> Administration -> System Monitor

Change current logged in user’s password Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal, then run the command below:- passwd

RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. It supports most Subversion and Git functionality. Checkout the screenshots:- http://wiki.rabbitvcs.org/wiki/about/screenshots

I was in search of a good screen capture tool to be used in Linux. More precisely, for Ubuntu as I use it. You can take the screenshot through ‘Print Screen’ keyboard button. But, I want some more. I was in search of a program which could take capture any specific area of my screen. [...]