Archive for April, 2008
AnyClient: a no install Browser-based FTP client
If you suddenly need an FTP client, maybe your friend needs a hand, and you don’t have your usb key with one of those portable FTP clients on it, then you’ll certainly go searching Google for one. Fortunately there are many out there, starting from Filezilla, the most renowned Open Source FTP client, to others [...]
Switch between Desktop and Command-line with Dragbox
What could be the easiest way to move files and directories from our Desktop, to the Terminal - - Dragbox (could be the answer). Even though one can directly drag and drop lines from a webpage or files from the desktop directly on the Terminal, Dragbox can be used as a clipboard to momentarily [...]
Ease your WiFi connections with WiFi Radar
If you are always on the move, then grasp Wifi Radar - a simple GUI utility for managing WiFi profiles and make easier wireless connections from one wireless access point (AP) to another. Install on Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install wifi-radar
When you run it, it displays all available wireless networks your Wi-Fi can grasp, [...]
VirtualBox Exploit - How to Share your USB key between Ubuntu and Windows
A simple way to share your files between your Ubuntu Desktop and Windows is by using Samba file sharing. It creates a common “workgroup” with Windows that makes file transfer between these two systems easy to carry out. Now, if you use VirtualBox (the open source answer to visualization, and also direct competitor [...]
Erase and Rewrite your CD-RW with k3b
If I have to try out new Linux distributions I’ll certainly have to spend on CDs to burn most of this ISO files . But i can simply get a few CD-RWs and use them a couple of times, and what application would do the erase and rewrite for me? K3b - - this [...]
Format and reuse your Floppy Diskettes in Ubuntu with Kfloppy
Whilst the DOSBox helps you revamp your old and dusty DOS games, Kfloppy is an intuitive, graphical utility that helps you format your 3.5” and 5.25” floppy disks so that you can eventually load them, for example, with a small GNU/Linux OS, a small DOS game or better still, you can create [...]
Automatically shutdown your PC at bedtime with GShutdown
If you are some sought of a workaholic and find it hard to turn-off your PC even after many hours of work, then try using this simple, open source utility that will not only tell you how many minutes you have left before it hangs -up but would also automatically shut down your PC, as [...]