Tutorials
Ubuntu: Twitter from the Terminal
I have been looking for some new things to work on, and one in particular would need the ability to send out tweets. I planned on setting something up using Ubuntu, since I am all for using open source. The problem was, I didn’t know how to tweet without a client or the web interface.
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Reviews
Roku: Roksbox
Roksbox is a Roku channel trying to bring a very obvious feature to the Roku. Roksbox allows your Roku to stream content on your local network. It can actually stream custom content over the internet, but I didn’t get into that. I wanted local streaming, so that is what I worked on. Roksbox has a long way
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OpenShot
OpenShot is one of the newest non-linear video editors for Linux. When it comes to video editing in Linux, there are not many choices. OpenShot came out of the gate with a bang and their latest release, 1.1, this project shows no signs of slowing down. Linux has always fallen short in the video editor
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Linux Mint 8
Linux Mint Helena was finally released, new theme with the same good style. Linux Mint has been a favorite Linux distribution of mine for the past couple of years now. This group takes Ubuntu and dramatically improves the visual style to give a this distribution an eye catching look. They have also improved some core
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Wubi Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Do you want to try Ubuntu without removing Windows or partitioning a dual boot
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Conky Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. This is a nice tool for monitoring your system usage. You can customize it to fit your current theme and display just about any information you want to view. This application really helps to keep a minimalistic desktop. In
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Linux Twitter Clients Here are some of the top Twitter clients for Linux. I have tried each of these on Ubuntu 9.10 and each have their downsides. They all run pretty well, with the exception of Twitux. It seems to have some memory leak problems. If you leave Twitux running all the time it will consume large amounts
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Unetbootin UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. Take you favorite flavor of Linux, and create a bootable USB drive that you can take with you. You can select from the list of pre-defined distributions, or point
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