Linux

DeaDBeeF Music Player – How to install DeaDBeeF on Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:January 7, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a free and open source audio player for Linux and Windows. It plays a variety of audio formats like Mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/m4b/mp4 (aac and alac), mpc, tta, cd audio and converts between them. You can also extend its features via plugins. It comes with playlist support, you can sort and group the tracks, ALSA and PulseAudio support, cuesheet (.cue files) support and full tag reading and writing support.

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MediaInfo Get Technical Data of Multimedia Files

Post last modified:March 16, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

MediaInfo is a free and open source multimedia software for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS. Using MediaInfo application you can easily view all technical and tag information about video and audio files. It comes with many video and audio…

GoldenDict Dictionary Lookup Application

Post last modified:January 26, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

GoldenDict is a free and open source dictionary lookup application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It supports multiple dictionary formats and online dictionaries. Currently it supports StarDict, Babylon, Lingvo, Dictd, AARD, MDict and SDict file formats. Also supports Wikipedia, Wiktionary,…

Linux 3.3 released

Post last modified:March 20, 2012
Post category:Linux Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Linux 3.3 is now available.what’s new in this release?

Android merge
Btrfs: restriping between different RAID levels, improved balancing, improved debugging tools
Open vSwitch
Better bonding of network interfaces: teaming
Bufferbloat fighting: Byte queue limits
Per-cgroup TCP buffer limits
Network priority control group
Better ext4 online resizing
New architecture: TI C6X
EFI boot support
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Ubuntu Builder – build your own distribution

Post last modified:March 14, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Author’s description:
Ubuntu Builder is a simple tool to build your own distribution. It allows to download, extract, customize in many ways and rebuild your ubuntu images. You can customize i386 and amd64 images.

Download the latest .deb package.
Double click on it and intall via ubuntu software center or dpkg or gdebi.
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Lifeograph – private digital diary

Post last modified:March 9, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Lifeograph is a free private digital diary software for linux.

Main features:

supports encrypted and unencrypted diaries
automatically logs out when not used for some time
automatically formats entry titles and subheadings
basic searching/filtering
favorite entries
entry tagging
spell checking
links between entries
links in URI form (http://, file://, mailto://, etc…)
automatic backups
printing individual entries or whole diaries
basic statistical charts
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How to install HandBrake on linux mint

Post last modified:March 5, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

HandBrake is a free multithreaded video transcoder for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
To know more about HandBrake click here

To install HandBrake on linux mint

1.Open terminal.To open terminal in linux mint, click Menu button and select terminal or type terminal in the search field and click terminal.

2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
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How to create bootable linux flash drives/USB drive/pen drives

Post last modified:January 8, 2016
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

To create bootable linux flash drives/USB drive/pen drives download and install LinuxLive(LiLi) USB Creator.
LinuxLive USB Creator is a free software for windows and it creates portable, bootable and virtualized USB (flash) stick running Linux.

Program: LinuxLive(LiLi) USB Creator
Linux distro:Ubuntu 11.10
Difficulty: Beginner
Estimated Completion Time: 4 Minute

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How to Install VLC 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 11.10

Post last modified:March 5, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

To install vlc media player 2.0.0 on ubuntu 11.10

1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field. And click Terminal.

2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc

3.Type your ubuntu password if needed.

4.Then press enter to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding the ppa.

5.Type below command and hit enter
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How to install Ubuntu Tweak on ubuntu 11.10

Post last modified:February 20, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier.

To install Ubuntu Tweak on ubuntu 11.10

1.Go to ubuntu tweak download page and download the latest version deb package file.

2.Double click the .deb package file or open with ubuntu software center and click the install button.

3.Type your ubuntu password if needed and wait until the installation is complete.

4.To open Ubuntu Tweak, click dash button from unity launcher. And type ubuntu tweak in the search applications field and click Ubuntu Tweak.
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