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How to install GNU Emacs on Ubuntu – Extensible and Customizable Text editor

Post last modified:October 9, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

GNU Emacs is a free open source Emacs text editor from GNU Project founder Richard Stallman. It is available for GNU, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Windows. You can extent its feature its feature using a Turing complete programming language. The important features are syntax coloring, built-in documentation, full Unicode, customization using Emacs Lisp code, project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar and extensions support.Using this you can display files in multiple character sets, and has been able to simultaneously display most human languages. It is released under GPLv3+ licence.

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How to install Writefull editor on Ubuntu – Automatic Text Suggestions to the User

Post last modified:October 7, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Writefull editor is a free app for Linux, Windows, MacOS and chrome that gives automatics suggestion to your writing by checking it against Google Books, Google Web, Google Scholar and Google News language databases. Using this you can check writing in language database, Hear how your written is pronounced, translate your writing from any language into English, Find out which words are used most often in your writing. You can launch this desktop app via shortcut key in any writing app like office suite and Gmail.

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How to install Tux Paint on Ubuntu – Drawing tool for kids

Post last modified:October 7, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Tux Paint is a free open source kids drawing application for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. This program mainly target kids under 12 years old. This is really fun app for kids. It comes with good sound effects, full-screen mode to hide other things from kids and fun cartoon Tux to guide kids. The drawing tools are various type of paint brushes, Rubber stamp with photographic and cartoon images, line tool, shape tool, Text and Label tools and Eraser. And one of the important tool is Magic tool. Using this you can do more than 50 tasks like blur parts of the picture, make parts of the picture look like a cartoon, Throw confetti over your image, flip the image vertically, draws curvy-stalked flowers and lots more. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

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How to Remove applications in Ubuntu – All Methods

Post last modified:October 4, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

In Ubuntu you can remove the installed applications in may ways. But for beginners removing the applications are still confusing. In Ubuntu there is a not a single control panels to remove applications like Windows. In this tutorial we will see the methods of removing the installed Ubuntu applications one by one.

Remove applications using Ubuntu Software:

This is the easiest and the best way to remove installed Ubuntu application. Using this method you can remove Ubuntu Software. Using this you can remove or pre-installed, manually installed applications, Flatpak applications and Snap packages.

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How to install FlightGear Flight Simulator on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 3, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

FlightGear is a free and open source Flight Simulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS-X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX. FlightGear Flight Simulator comes with 3 primary Flight Dynamics Models and you can also add new dynamics models. Available Flight Dynamics Models are JSBSim, YASim and UIUC. It support standard 3d model formats and xml based ascii files. Some of the important features are more than 20000 real world airports, Sloping runways, accurate and detailed terrain and sky model like lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, sun, moon and stars.

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How to install Mr.Rescue fire fighting game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 2, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Mr.Rescue is a free and open source an arcade style fire fighting game for Windows, MacOS and Linux. In this game players need to rescue civilians from a burning building by picking them up and throwing them out the window. You will also get a water gun and it will help you to go way through flames in the game and collect coolants to cool down your against fire. This game is build on Love framework. Using this framework you can make 2D games in Lua. It is released under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 unported License.

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OpenResizer Bulk image resizer – How to install OpenResizer on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 30, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

OpenResizer is a free and open source easy to use bulk image resizer for linux and windows. Using this you can resize your images one by one or in batch very quickly. It comes with three image resizer mode Do not resize, Resize by pixel and Resize by percentage. Using this Do not resize mode you can just rename the files in bulk with same ending. Resize by pixel allows you to resize the image by using the pixel value. Third and the final option provies resize by percentage. It also comes with width and height conditions, output image quality and cpu utilization features. You can save files in jpeg, png, BMP or in original source file format

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How to install PowerShell on Ubuntu – PowerShell task automation Tool

Post last modified:September 28, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

PowerShell is a task automation command-line shell tool and scripting language from microsoft built on .NET framework and the open source version is build on .NET core and called Powershell Core. You can download and install Powershell on Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. PowerShell is a very powerful tool .Using this you can manage your computer from CLI easily.

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How to install Shattered Pixel Dungeon game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 28, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a free open source pixel art type Roguelike RPG game for Android and Linux. This game is based on Pixel Dungeon game but with many new features and improvements. It comes with 4 playable characters with unique play style, randomly generated unique levels, and enemies, and over 150 items to collect and use. It is released under the GPLv3 License. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a very popular game in android and it is officially available for android only. But unofficial snaps are available for Linux to install this game.

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Vidiot Video Editor Software – Install Vidiot on Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:March 23, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Vidiot is a free and open source non-linear video editor for Linux and Windows. It is a simple and easy-to-use video editor for home users, with features such as video converter, video compositing, trimming, titles, key frames, transitions, speed changing,…