Linux and UNIX based operating systems have had all the basic ingredients for relatively painless automation built in for ages. You can make it do anything at any time, by any schedule or any trigger. Your wish is its command! These basic ingredients are shell scripting in bash, a few key configuration files, and cron. […]
20 Great Free Code Editors for Linux
Probably the most important tool for any developer is the code editor. This is where you spend the vast majority of your development time so you want an editor that has the functionality you need, and that feels right for you. Often it’s about the right balance of features, simplicity, and speed, which is why […]
Control Your Phone with These Open Source Linux Apps
If your phone can be connected to your computer with an USB cable you can do a lot more through this connection than just recharging it or transferring files to and from your phone’s storage. For example, you can make phone calls, read and send text messages, and see a bunch of other information from […]
Control Your Phone with These Open Source Linux Apps
If your phone can be connected to your computer with an USB cable you can do a lot more through this connection than just recharging it or transferring files to and from your phone’s storage. For example, you can make phone calls, read and send text messages, and see a bunch of other information from […]
Control Your Phone with These Open Source Linux Apps
If your phone can be connected to your computer with an USB cable you can do a lot more through this connection than just recharging it or transferring files to and from your phone’s storage. For example, you can make phone calls, read and send text messages, and see a bunch of other information from […]
Create Animations with Inkscape, ImageMagick and FFmpeg
One way to create animations in Linux is to use the GIMP Animation Package (GAP). It allows you to create each GIMP layer as a frame and export it as an animation. This is great, but what if you wanted the flexibility of vector graphics while designing your frames? That’s where this tutorial comes in. […]
Create Animations with Inkscape, ImageMagick and FFmpeg
One way to create animations in Linux is to use the GIMP Animation Package (GAP). It allows you to create each GIMP layer as a frame and export it as an animation. This is great, but what if you wanted the flexibility of vector graphics while designing your frames? That’s where this tutorial comes in. […]
Easy Linux backup software with Time Machine like functionality
It’s easy to be impressed by Apple’s Time Machine backup feature. It works in the background, is seamlessly integrated, and when you need to get to restore something whoa.. you’re all of a sudden in space, travelling back in time, bringing something back to the present. There are two key things to this system. First […]
Comparing the Window Managers: Which is Best for You?
The idea that you could just change the way your computer’s user interface looks like and behaves is pretty foreign to most people that typically use Windows or Apple’s OSX. In the world of Linux operating systems, as well as other open source UNIX based systems like FreeBSD or openSolaris, this capability is a given. […]
Auto shutdown your computer in Linux
When going to sleep I sometimes like to leave my computer on playing ambient music from an internet radio station. It’s a really good intro to the dreams. However I don’t want to have the computer play and be turned on all the time so I use a simple auto shutdown program to set the […]
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