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Poll: What’s the memory usage of your empty Linux Desktop Environment ?

Apr 302011

In these days there is much talk about Unity, the new default desktop environment of Ubuntu one of the most popular Linux distributions, and so Unity will become the normal desktop environment for many users, there is also a lot of talk about Gnome 3 with its new features and capabilities that usually you love or hate. Others Linux distributions point on minimalism on their desktop such as Bodhi Linux or CrunchBang.

But how much memory your desktop really uses, just to getting started and give you the chance to do something?
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Izulu – Change Linux background according to weather condition

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Apr 282011

In a previous article I introduced some programs to automatically change your desktop to show for example your own photo gallery , today I’ll show you a program that change the background, depending on the time of the day and also depending on weather: Izulu Continue reading »

Get updated with facebook-notify

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Apr 222011

As the name suggest this small python script use your notification area to show you what’s going on in your Facebook account.

It notifies you when any of the following events occur

One of your friends changes their status, profile picture, or profile details
You receive a friend request, event or group invitation
Someone writes on one of your friends walls
One of your friends is tagged in a photo

Humble Bundle – part 3

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Apr 122011

I’ve talked of the Humble Bundle 2 in this post, and now you have around 14 days to buy 5 good games and choose the price you want to pay for them, this seem too good to be true?

Then I add also that you can decide whether, and to what percentage, allocate part of the sum for the charity in two associations.

Yes The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle is arrived !
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QR Code in Linux

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Apr 032011

Probably you have already saw these small black and white image in some sites or while walking around your city, or if you have a smartphone probably you have already used them; they are QR Code.

From Wikipedia: A QR code (short for Quick Response) is a specific matrix barcode
(or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones.
The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background.
The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.

In this article we’ll see how to create these image in Linux and some uses of these images.

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