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Encode and sync music to your portable music player in linux

Ok so today turned out to be a not so good day for me, and like all not so good days I try do something which would distract me, something i love doing. Hence this post. Nope I don’t want to talk about it. So some months ago I

The Ultimate Blogging Client for Linux

How it all started Ever since i started a blog i had always wanted a wanted a application which would allow me do my blogging (preferably offline ) without having to use the web browser. One of the reasons for this was because i (as at then) did not have a

Get Thunderbird to minimizing to tray instead of closing

One of the first set of things i do when i install a fresh (k)ubuntu is change the default email client. Both evolution (ubuntu) and kmail (kubuntu) don’t just cut it for me, they always seem bloated and buggy. I am a KISS guy -not that kiss (fine

How to Fix Pidgin and Yahoo Issues

Lots of people (including me) have been experiencing issues trying to connect to their yahoo messenger account via pidgin. The reason for this issues seem to be that Yahoo are updating their servers and are using a new authentication system? Thankfully i found a workaround Work around Open Pidgin and

An easy way to Spilt or Merge PDF Files in Linux

I work as the IT guy of a school that runs free software on all our computers. So far majority of our computing needs has been met by free software. ( all of them if we exclude matlab [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB] and some freedom hating multimedia codecs.) One

Give Ubuntu Jaunty An Apple Flavour

So this month i decide to give my laptop an apple flavor, God knows how much i hate Macs and some element of their interface, like the lack of right click-right out of the box (i initially stated that right clicks doesn’t work out of the box because the

Use Identi.ca Notices as your Pidgin status message

While surfing the net feeling bored (after waking up in the middle of the night and finding it hard to sleep. well that is quite another story) I found a cool pidgin plugin called pidgin-identica-status [http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-identica-status/] what it does is Use your (or infact any

Control PulseAudio streams with gnome-pulse-applet

Back in late 2007 i started seeing news about some revolution that was coming to sound in Linux . I remembered reading about it being the: > next generation sound server for Linux, making all sorts of “ear-candy” possible: from dynamically changing the volume of individual applications to hot-plugging support for

Resetting Keyring in Intrepid

One of the things i find very annoying on ibex is the gnome keyring. It is suppose to provide a secured means for applications to store password. But as always with security stuff it can get very annoying especially if you use a WPA secured wireless and you authenticate your