Sep 092011
 

Alias are a great tool to help increment your productivity on the terminal with bash (or any shell program you’re using), but usually we are too lazy to think at what are the most common, or long commands that we use frequently and prepare an alias for them.

And so someone has done a small piece of software to do this job: aliaser

Aliaser helps you identify frequently typed commands and creates bash aliases for them. Aliaser analyses your bash history and helps you identify commands that you use frequently.
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Aug 312011
 

pax_britannicaPax Britannica it’s a One-button real-time strategy that puts you in control of a deep-sea “factory ship” that is immediately under attack. One button gives you the power to deploy an attack force of your own: Try to destroy your enemies before they destroy you.

The game can be played with one player versus the computer, or choose the best option and play it with 3 friends head-to-head.
It’s an open source game, developed with Lua and it’s fun with highly atmospheric sounds and music.
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Aug 282011
 

nfuploader Back from vacation? now you’ll have probably a lot of photos and video to show to friends on facebook, but loading them by hand from the web interface is not exactly the easiest thing to do.

There is a small program that can help you: NFuploader, which allows you to load one or more images from Nautilus, but some are also used by Thunar the XFCE file manager, directly to Facebook.
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Aug 252011
 

Original article by Craciun Dan published on Tuxarena, the article is based on the installation and use within a distribution with packages .deb

For this tutorial we’ll use the genisoimage utility, developed as part of the cdrkit project. genisoimage is a command-line tool for creating ISO 9660 filesystem images, which can be burnt after to a CD or DVD using wodim or some other burning tool. To install it open a terminal and type the following as root:

apt-get install genisoimage

Now, let’s use the simplest syntax to create an ISO image out of a directory and its contents:

genisoimage -o output_image.iso directory_name

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Aug 242011
 

This is an utility to clean junk to free disk space and to maintain privacy deleting in a secure way files and directory.

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, OpenOffice, Safari,and more

Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. BleachBit it is open source.
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