Recent Posts Tagged With 'applications'

• Install Backtrack Applications On Your Ubuntu

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 14:04 in applications, distributions

  Backtrack is one of the most top rated Live Linux Distributions (meaning you can run straight from the CD). Backtrack is focused on penetration testing, and comes pre-packed with many applications to analyse and test your LAN, Wifi, Bluetooth... th...

• GetDeb V2 Beta

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 10:21 in applications

  For the past three years, GetDeb.net has been the home to newest updates of many of the popular applications available for Ubuntu. In the past, the only real way to obtain any of the software is to go onto their site, download, and install. There was...

• The Falling Sand Game

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 07:23 in Games, applications

  Be Warned! This is a very addictive game! I am not normally a fan of any type of computing games, but I found myself playing on this for hours on end.I'm sure most of you would have heard and played the flash version of this game somewhere on the Int...

• Save A List Of Installed Applications

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 17:49 in applications

  Firstly I would like to apologize for the lack of updates to this site over the last few weeks. This is down to some personal problems I have been having, and due to Jaunty messing with my display on my MSI Wind. All is back to normal now, and I'm re...

• Twittering With Ubuntu

  Posted on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 20:52 in social networking, development, applications, command line

  Over the past 6 months, the popularity of Twitter has sky rocketed, with the worlds most biggest celebrities using it - With @Obama being one of the top users with the highest amount of followers.So what is Twitter? Twitter is known as a 'micro-blogg...

• Using wget To Download Entire Websites

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 08:20 in internet, applications, command line

  Basic wget Commands:To download a file from the Internet type:wget http://www.example.com/downloads.zipIf you are downloading a large file, for example an ISO image, this could take some time. If your Internet connection goes down, then what do you d...

• Top Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 10:36 in tweaks, multimedia, applications

  You have just installed Ubuntu, and you are staring blankly at the human themed desktop... Now what?1. Enable Multiverse RepositoriesThe first ting to do on any new install is to enable the Multiverse Repositories. This will then give you access to t...

• Add/Remove Applications Shows No Applications

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 in applications

  It's not often that I use this feature, but this morning when I tried, It would not show any applications.[Click To Enlarge]After a little bit of searching online, I found out that many people have had this problem after installing Adobe Air. I am no...

• Alternative Web Browsers

  Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 13:52 in internet, applications

  I'm quite a big fan of FireFox. All the extra add-ons you get, and the themes has to make FireFox one of the best browsers out there. Luckily for me, FireFox comes installed by default on Ubuntu.There are of course people who do not like Firefox, and...

• Dynamic Clock Background

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 13:09 in applications, appearance

  This is a very cool feature that I have on my Ubuntu. A background that automatically updates according to what time of day it is. Want to see what I mean? Then have a look at the image below:As you can see at the moment, the background image is disp...

• L33t Sig

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 19:11 in internet, applications

  This is a must have application if you are a member of any type of forum. the image below is in my signature on many of forums. The information will update when I a using more RAM, or more CPU power. To have your very own signature like this, you wil...

• Goodbye Rhythmbox, Welcome Songbird!

  Posted on Wednesday December 31st, 2008 at 05:01 in multimedia, applications

  Although I don't like to admit it, I have always liked the iTunes media player. I know it hogs so much RAM, and that it loves to crash half way through your most loved song - but it is so sexy. I wasn't too keen on the idea of installing and running ...

• The Best Pidgin Hacks & Mods

  Posted on Sunday December 28th, 2008 at 08:47 in internet, applications

  Pidgin is a cross platform chat client which is both free, and easy to use. You can connect to many different networks at the same time. Pidgin supports all the major chat networks like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and also supports a lot of the less well used n...

• Xmas Xsnow!

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 13:37 in applications

  Merry Christmas to all of my readers!I have been really busy getting everything ready for tomorrow, as I am sure all of you have been. So something short just to get you that extra 1% ready for Christmas!sudo apt-get install xsnowxsnow is a fun littl...

• Installing & Using Adobe Air

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 in internet, applications

  Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that enables web developers to use their existing web development skills, code and tools to build and deploy rich web applications and content to the desktop.From: http://onair.adobe.com/airTo download Ad...

• Installing & Using Winetricks

  Posted on Sunday December 21st, 2008 at 05:18 in windows, applications

  Winetricks is a quick and simple way of installing a number of different Windows Runtime Libraries that are often needed to run Windows applications within Wine.To download Winetricks, you can find the package here: http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetric...

• The Best Hacking Tools For Ubuntu

  Posted on Thursday December 18th, 2008 at 11:15 in hacks, Networking, applications

  NmapNmap is one of the best network security scanners out there. Nmap will scan for all the computers and services that are currently running on the network. This application will not only scan for the available services on the network like most othe...