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Welcome to Jekyll!
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2015
Tox: A Distributed And Secure P2P Instant Messaging Application (FOSS Skype Alternative)
Tox is a secure P2P instant messaging application that focuses on privacy user friendliness.
2014
Easily Record Your Screen With SimpleScreenRecorder
SimpleScreenRecorder is a Qt application that allows you to record your desktop.
2013
Boost Your Command-Line Experience With These Bash Keyboard Shortcuts
A list of commonly used Bash keyboard shortcuts that allow you to enhance your terminal experience.
How To Make VLC Remember The Position Of The Last Played Video [How To]
Make Vlc remember the position of the last played video using the Srpos plugin.
A Review Of Rhythmbox, The Default Music Player Of Ubuntu [Guest Post]
Rhythmbox is the default music player of Ubuntu.
CurseOfWar: A Command-Line RTS (Real-time Strategy) Game for Ubuntu/Linux
CurseOfWar is a real-time strategy game for Ubuntu. It is a command-line game that features a fast-paced gaming style which requires high-level strategic thi...
BitMessage: A Decentralized P2P Network For Sending/Receiving Encrypted Messages
BitMessage is a P2P decentralized network that allows its users to exchange text messages safely and anonymously.
Mumble: A Low-Latency And High Quality Voice Chat For Gamers
Mumble is a low-latency and high quality voice application for gamers.
Parcellite: A Lightweight GTK+ Clipboard Manager For Ubuntu/Linux
Parcellite is a very simplistic clipboard manager for Ubuntu/Linux.
FocusWriter: A Distraction-Free Text Editor/Writing Tool For Writers
FocusWriter is a distraction-free writing tool that enhances your productivity by cutting off visual distractions.
KShutdown: An Advanced KDE ShutDown Utility
KShutdown is a KDE utility that lets you easily shutdown or suspend your machine at a specified time.
Lucidor: An Eye Candy E-Book Reader, Install It On Ubuntu
Lucidor is a beautiful E-Book reader that lets you painlessly read and manage your EPUB collection.
PPA Update: Install Mcomix (Manga Reader) From PPA [TooPPA]
Mcomix is a user friendly comic/manga reader. You can install it using our PPA which supports Precise, Quantal, Raring and Saucy.
Claws-Mail: A Lightweight GTK+ Mail Client For Ubuntu
Claws-mail is a simple and user friendly email application for Ubuntu.
HotShots: A Lightweight ScreenShot Tool For Ubuntu
HotShots is a lightweight screenshot application for Ubuntu.
Easily Rename And Organize Your TV Shows With FileBot
FileBot is a cross-platform application which lets you easily organize and rename your movies, anime episodes and music files.
ChatWing: A Real-Time Chat Widget For Blogger
Chatwing is a real-time chat widget for blogger.
TreeLine: A Hierarchical Note Taking Application For Ubuntu
Treeline is a hierarchical note taking application that allows you to organize and store any type of information such as notes, contacts ..
Vokoscreen: A Screencasting Application For Ubuntu
Vokoscreen is a screencasting application for Ubuntu/Linux.
Jitsi: An Open Source IM And Video/Audio Calling Program For Ubuntu [Skype Alternative]
Jitsi is a cross-platform and Open Source instant messaging and video/audio calling application written in Java.
Browse Wikipedia Offline With Kiwix [Offline Web Content Reader]
Kiwix is an offline reader for offline content. It allows you to download the whole Wikipedia for offline reading.
Listen To Online Radio Stations With Great Little Radio Player
Great Little Radio Player is a desktop application that lets you play online radio stations without using a web browser.
Browse And Access Reddit From The Command-Line With Cortex [Ncurses App]
Cortex is an Ncurses application that lets you browse Reddit directly from the terminal.
jTimeSched: A Simple And Lightweight Time Tracking Application
jTimeSched is a small Java application that allows to easily track your tasks/projects by recording how much time you have spent on each task.
HexChat: A Feature-Rich IRC Client For Ubuntu/Linux
HexChat is an IRC client for Ubuntu. It comes with all the features you might expect from a chat client such as tabbed interface, auto-connect, theme support …
Apply Cool Effects To Your Photos With PhotoFiltreLX
PhotoFiltreLX is a lightweight image editing software for Linux. It lets you apply cool effects to your photos using a huge collection of filters.
Keep Your HOME Folder Clean With Mundus
Mundus is a simple application that allows you to delete the configuration files of uninstalled application, and thus keeping your home folder clean.
Easily Tag Your Music Files With MusicBrainz’s Picard
Picard is an audio tagger written in Python. It grabs metadata from MusicBrainz allowing you to easily tag your albums.
ffDiaporama: Create Cool Movie Clips Using Photos And Videos
ffDiaporama is a Qt application that lets you easily create video slideshows from various sources such as photos, music, text and movie clips.
Yacy: A Fully Decentralized P2P Search Engine, Install It On Ubuntu
Yacy is a fully distributed search engine made entirely using a P2P technology. It has over 1.4 billion documents in its index.
How To Find The Right Package Name Of A Given Application In Ubuntu
How to find the right package of a particular application/command in Ubuntu/Linux.
LiveStreamer: A Flash-Free Command-Line Application For Playing Live Streams
LiveStreamer is a flash-free command-line tool that lets you play content from live stream websites such as Twitch/Justin.tv.
QuiteRSS: A Lightweight RSS Desktop Reader For Ubuntu/Kubuntu
QuiteRSS is a lightweight desktop RSS reader for Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
Easily Bulk Convert Your Images With Converseen
Converseen is a simple and easy to use Qt application that allows you to bulk convert your image files to any supported format.
EmelFM2: A Lightweight GTK+ Dual Panel File Manager For Ubuntu/Linux
EmelFM2 Is A Lightweight Dual Panel File Manager For Ubuntu/Linux And BSD Systems.
Automatically Rename TV Episode Videos With TVnamer
TVnamer Is A Simple Python Command-Line Application That Lets You Effectively Rename TV Episodes Using Descriptive Titles From Thetvdb.com.
Easily Access Your Currently Open Windows With Window-List App Indicator
Window-List is A Unity App Indicator That Allows You To Switch Between Your Currently Open Windows.
Jtv-Downloader: A Tool To Download And Record Live Streams From Justin.tv/Twitch.tv
Jtv-Downloader Is A Qt Application Which Allows You To Easily Download Videos From Live Streaming Services Such As Justin.tv/Twitch.tv.
Rainbarf: A CPU/Battery/RAM Usage Chart Bar For Tmux
Rainbarf Is A Small Linux Command-Line Utility That Displays System Resource Usage In The Tmux Status Line.
Guvcview: A GTK Application For Capturing Videos Using Your Webcam
Guvcview Is A GTK+ Application That Allows You To Record Video/Audio From Your Webcam/Mic. It Can Also Apply Cool Effects To Your Recordings Such As Negative...
Play Puzzle Games With Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection
Simon Tatham´s Portable Puzzle Collection Is A Huge Compilation Of Lightweight One-Player Puzzle Games That Run Natively On Ubuntu.
Aseprite: A Pixel Art And Animated Sprites Creator
Aseprite (a.k.a. Allegro Sprite Editor) Is A Pixel Art Editor That Allows You To Create Animated Sprites And Pixel Art Images. It Provides Advanced Tools Su...
SlowmoVideo: A Slow Motion Video Creator For Ubuntu
SlowmoVideo Is An Application That Allows You To Create Slow Motion Videos From Any FFmpeg Supported Video Format.
How To Convert Man Pages To PDF Files For Easy Reading
How To Save Manual Pages As PDF Files.
Turpial: A Cool GTK+ Twitter Application For Ubuntu
Turpial Is A Beautiful Microblogging Client For Ubuntu That Comes With A Nice Interface And A Lot Of Features That Allow You To Easily Update Your Twitter/Id...
TaskWarrior: A Powerful Command-Line TODO List Manager
TaskWarrior Is An Advanced Command-Line TODO List Manager That Lets You Easily Keep Track Of Your Projects Using The GTD Method.
Aria2: A Feature-Rich And Flexible Command-Line Download Manager
Aria2 Is A Lightweight Command-Line Download Manager For Ubuntu/Linux. It Supports Multiple Protocols Such As HTTP, BitTorrent And Metalink.
How To Open PDF Files Inside Chromium Using Evince [How To]
How To Make Chromium Open PDF Files In Evince (Inside The Browser) Using Mozplugger.
EasyStroke: Launch Your Favorite Applications With Mouse Gestures
EasyStroke Is A Mouse Gestures Recognition Program That Allows You To Launch Your Applications Using Mouse Gestures.
FlexGet: Get Email Notifications Of Newly Available Torrent Files [How To] [Part #3]
How To Configure FlexGet Email Plugin To Receive Email Updates When New Content Is Available For Download.
Easily Download Coursera Videos/Lectures With Coursera Downloader
Coursera Downloader Is A Small Python Script That Lets You Easily Batch Download Online Courses From Coursera.org.
Todo Indicator: Ubuntu App Indicator For Todo.TXT-Style Todo Lists
Todo Indicator Is An Ubuntu App Indicator That Is Capable Of Reading And Editing Todo.txt Todo Lists.
Use FlexGet To Automatically Download New Torrents Using RSS Feeds [How To] [Part #2]
How To Use FlexGet´s Transmission Plugin To Automatically Add New Torrents To The Transmission GTK+ Client.
FlexGet: A Tool To Automatically Download Torrents Using RSS Feeds [How To] [Part #1]
FlexGet Is An Automation Tool That You Can Use To Automatically Download New Torrrents Using Rss Feeds.
Transmission: Automatically Monitor A Directory For New Torrent Files [How To]
How To Set Up Transmission To Automatically Monitor A Directory For Newly Added Torrent Files.
Ubuntu: How To Remove Unused Configuration Files [How To]
How To Purge Unused/Unneeded Configuration Files In Ubuntu.
How To Disable The Global Menu For A Particular Application [How To]
How To Disable The Unity Global Menu For A Selected Application.
How To Enable The BS2B DSP Effect For All Gstreamer Based Audio Players [How To]
How To Enable The BS2B DSP Effect For All Gstreamer Audio Players.
GCstar: A Feature-Rich Personal Collections Manager For Ubuntu/Linux
GCstar Is An Open Source Application That Lets You Easily Manage A Collection Of Books, Movies, Applications, TV Shows And So On.
How To Enable The “Delete File Permanently” Feature In Nautilus [How To]
How To Add A Delete Option To The Right-Click Menu Of Nautilus.
2012
How To Always Open An Application In A Specific Workspace [How To]
How To Always Launch An Application In A Certain Workspace Using Compiz Place Windows Plugin.
DeaDBeef: A Lightweight Yet Feature-Rich Audio Player For Ubuntu/Linux
DeaDBeef Is A Lightweight But Powerful Audio Player For Ubuntu/Linux. It Comes With A Plugin Collection And Supports A Wide Range Of Formats.
Alarm Clock: A Featureful Alarm Clock Application For Ubuntu/Linux
Alarm Clock Is A Small Gnome Application That Lets You Easily Create And Manager A List Of Alarms. It Supports Auto-repeatable Alarms And Has An App Indicator.
RadioTray: Access Your Favorite Radio Stations From The App Indicator Area
RadioTray is a small application that lets you listen to your favorite radio stations right from the App Indicator Area.
How To Determine The Location Of A Binary Application In Ubuntu/Linux
How To Determine The Location Of The Executable Binary Of An Application In Linux.
Batch Resize, Rename And Compress Images With EasyImageSizer
EasyImageSizer Is An Application That Allows You To Easily Batch Resize, Compress Or Rename Images.
FeedIndicator: A Cool And Simple RSS App Indicator For Ubuntu
FeedIndicator Is A Very Simple RSS/Feed App Indicator For Ubunu. It Gives You Instant Updates Using Desktop Notifications.
BleachBit: A Simple And Effective System Cleaner For Ubuntu
BleachBit Is A System Cleaner That Allows You To Free Disk Space By Deleting Unneeded Files.
Quod Libet: A Beautiful GTK+ Audio Player And Tagger
Quod Libet is An Audio Player Written In Python. It Allows You To Play/Tag Audio Files And Make Playlists Using Regular Expressions.
Easily Upload Your Photos To Flickr With Nautilus Flickr Uploader
Nautilus Flickr Uploader Is A Small Tool That Allows You To Upload Your Photos To Flickr By Using A Simple And Clean UI.
How To Remove The ‘Disabled On Upgrade’ Warning In Ubuntu Software Center After Distribution Upgrade
How To Remove The ´Disabled On Upgrade To Quantal´ statement In Ubuntu Software Center/Software Sources After Distribution Upgrade.
SunFlower: A Dual Panel File Manager For Ubuntu/Linux
SunFlower Is A Twin-Panel File Manager That Integrates Easily With The Gnome Desktop Environment.
Foobnix: A Foobar2000-Like Music Player For Ubuntu/Linux
Foobnix Is A Cool Foobar2000-Like Music Player For Ubuntu/Linux That Can Also Play Videos And Convert Audio Files.
How To Animate A Series Of Images Using ImageMagick [How To]
How To Use ImageMagick To Create An Animated GIF From A Series Of Images.
Easily Control The Screen Brightness With Indicator Brightness
Indicator Brightness Is A Small Utility That Allows you To Change The Brightness Level Using An App Indicator.
Dynamize Your Desktop With Variety Wallpaper Changer
Variety Wallpaper Changer is a Python Application That Allows You To Change Your Wallpapers Dynamically and Apply Fancy Effect To Them.
Use Bash Script Uploader To Easily Upload Your Images To Imgur
Use Bash Script Uploader To Easily Upload Your Images To Imgur (Command-line tool).
How To Uninstall A Python Application (Setup.py) [How To]
How To Uninstall A Python Application (Setup.py).
Mcomix: A Simple And User Friendly Comic/Manga Reader [PPA]
Mcomix Is A User Friendly Comic Reader That Allows You To Read Manga/Comic Archives Without The Need Of Extraction.
How To Enable Multiple Snippets In Vim [How To]
How To Enable Multiple Snippets In Vim (SnipMate).
gPodder: An Eye-Candy Cross-Platform Podcast Manager
gPodder Is A Cool Cross-Platform Podcast Manager.
Top 10 Random Linux/Ubuntu Commands [SlideShow]
This Is A List Of 10 Random and Useful Linux/Ubuntu Commands.
Extract Images Easily From PDF Documents With Pdfimages [Command-line Tool]
How To Extract Images From PDFs Using Pdfimages [CLI Tool].
Liferea: A Lightweight And Beautiful Feed Reader For Ubuntu
Liferea is a simple and lightweight feed/RSS reader for Ubuntu/Linux.
SoundConverter: A Fast And Powerful Audio Converter
SoundConverter is Lightweight Sound Converter For Ubuntu.
How To Use cURL To Find The Meaning Of Any Word
How To Use cURL As A Dictionary Lookup Tool.
Create A Custom Command With Alias
How To Create Custom Commands Using Alias.
Hugin: A Cool Panorama Photo Creator
Hugin is a tool which lets you create a panorama from any series of overlapping pictures.
Gimp: How to Add Stroke To Images [How To]
How To Use Gimp To Add A Stroke To An Image Or Text.
How To Convert M4a Files To Mp3 Files Using Avconv [How To]
How To Convert M4a To Mp3 Using Avconv (Libav Library).
How To Select Files Using A Pattern
How To Select Files By Pattern.
SubDownloader: A Lightweight And Fast Subtitles Downloader
SubDownloader Is A Fast And Easy To Use Subtitles Downloader.
Bulk Rename Your Files Easily With ‘Rename’ (Command-Line Tool)
How To Bulk Rename Files Using The Command Line Interface.
FreeFileSync: Synchronize, Compare And Backup Data
FreeFileSync helps you synchronize files and backup data.
How To Hardsub Videos Using Mencoder [How To]
How to use Mencoder to burn subtitles into a movie.
Uget: GTK+ Download Manager
Uget is a cross-platform download manager.
Vym: A Feature-rich Mind Mapping Tool
Vym is an open source mind mapping tool.
TileMill: Open Source Map Creator
TileMill is an open source map designer.
Plowshare: An Easy To Use Command-Line Download Tool
Plowshare is a command-line download/upload tool for websites such as rapidshare.
Top 10 File Sharing Applications For Ubuntu [SlideShow]
Top 10 File Sharing Programs For Ubuntu.
Lifeograph: Private Digital Diary
Lifeograph is a private digital diary program.
Synergy: Share Your Mouse Between Multiple Computers
Share your mouse between multiple computers.
How To Disable The Guest Session in Ubuntu 12.04 [How To]
How to disable the guest session Ubuntu.
Nanoshot: Linux Screenshot Program
Nanoshot is a screenshot program for Linux.
Impro-Visor: Music Notation Program
Impro-Visor is an educational application designed to provide jazz musicians with a way to create and play a lead sheet.
Speed Dreams: Open Source Racing Game
Speed Dreams is an open source racing game.
Deluge: Lightweight BitTorrent Client
Deluge is a cross-platform torrent client which supports protocol encryption.
Anki: Spaced Repetition Memory Program
Anki is a cross-platform application which implements the Spaced Repetition Memory technique.
Zim: Wiki Style Note Taking Application
Zim is a note taking application which helps you keep a collection of linked notes.
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