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Archive for April, 2011
Password Generator for Linux
Apr 19th
Gnome Password Generator is a GUI based secure password generator. It allows the user to generate a specified number of random passwords of a specified length. It requires Python version 2.4 or greater, PyGTK version 2.4 or greater, and Gnome-Python for Gnome 2. This utility is really very useful to Web Hosting companies who daily…
rTorrent – Torrent file downloader
Apr 19th
As we all know how to download torrent files using Transmission, a popular BitTorrent client with GUI (Graphical User Interface). Here we have ultra-lightweight text-based BitTorrent client -rTorrent. Install rTorrent on Ubuntu, $ sudo apt-get install rtorrent For Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat, # yum install rtorrent -y Now, we will start using rTorrent. But first, download a…
Bioinformatics Software For Linux
Apr 15th
Bioinformatics is being used largely in the field of human genome research by the Human Genome Project, which has been determining the sequence of the entire human genome (about 3 billion base pairs) and is essential in using genomic information to understand diseases. It is also used largely for the identification of new molecular targets…
Screen Recorder For Linux – Istanbul
Apr 15th
Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again. It works on GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others. It named Istanbul because, Istanbul as a…
Comix: A Digital Comics Book Reader for Linux
Apr 11th
Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. Comix can read images as plain image files and can even handle archived files like ZIP, RAR, gzip and bzip2. Its user-friendly interface has a handy sidebar thumbnail viewer and library viewer. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings. Download comix and extract…
Screen Recorder For Linux – RecordMyDesktop
Apr 11th
If you are using Linux and are looking for a screencasting or video screen capturing tool that would suit you needs, then you are in luck because there are plenty to choose from. But RecordMyDesktop produces a file (default out.ogv) that contains a video and audio recording of a linux desktop session. The default behavior…
OpenDNS DNS Configuration on Linux
Apr 11th
To speed up your Internet connection, replace your ISP’s slow DNS server with a third party DNS resolver like OpenDNS. Considered by many as one of the best DNS resolution services, OpenDNS is free and is really very easy to set up. It’s free and takes only 2 minutes to get started, with no software…
Set up Google Public DNS on Linux
Apr 9th
Google has recently released their very own DNS resolver with main goals of making web browsing faster and safer. Since Google’s search engine already crawls the web on a daily basis and in the process resolves and caches DNS information, they wanted to make use of their technology to experiment with new ways of addressing…
Convert FLV to AVI in Linux
Apr 9th
To convert .flv (YouTube/Flash videos) to .avi via the Linux terminal, the software that we will use to convert FLV to MPEG in Linux is FFmpeg. This program is not just an audio/video converter, but it can also be utilized to stream and record audio and video files. FFmpeg supports a wide range of formats…
Download YouTube Videos in Linux
Apr 7th
Do you want to Download your favorite you tube video in Linux? No problem! Here I have mentioned all steps to download you tube video using Linux Terminal. Step 1: Install youtube-dl package by executing, On Ubuntu, $ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl On Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, # yum install youtube-dl -y Step 2: After…