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Archive for November, 2007

Protect Your Passwords with MyPasswordSafe

By • Nov 13th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks

MyPasswordSafe is free security software that serves as a sought of a single protecting gate-way to all your desktop and web applications. It offers a single file to store usernames and passwords, and encrypts this file using the Blowfish algorithm unto your computer, and passes them into your clipboard (the clipboard is a tool that […]

Optimise your hard disk with an intuitive interface LinHDD

By • Nov 12th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

LinHDD is a simple front-end utility that offers a graphical interface to several basic Linux Hard Disk tools like hdparm, cfdisk, df, and mkfs. hdparm is a command line utility to set and view IDE hard disk hardware parameters, like the IDE read/write performance . df (disk free) is used to display the amount of […]

Asus Eee PC goes Desktop

By • Nov 10th, 2007 • Filed under: Hardware, Open Source Advocacy

After the huge success with their ultra-portable PC, Asus moves ahead and this time around it would be coming up with a desktop version of the Eee PC. This would be out only next year 2008. To get prices down, Asus would likely be adopting the measures that many other big PC producers have recently […]

Skype 2.0 beta for Linux comes with Video chat

By • Nov 9th, 2007 • Filed under: Video, Voip

Now it is possible, up to now it was not, with Skype 2.0 for Linux, Linux people join the rest of the VoIP (Voice over IP) world with video too, so get your web cams ready cause you can now show who you really are whilst chatting. Skype finally added video chat to the Linux […]

The Fedora Project releases Fedora 8.0.1

By • Nov 9th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Distros, Open-Source

The Fedora Project released last week the 2.6.23 based kernel Fedora 8. Fedora is a leading and well maintained Linux distros that packs-up both KDE and Gnome desktops into the same release. Fedora 8 includes the new Gnome 2.20 with a revamped control panel applet, and uses KDE 3.5.8. The KDE 4 is still a […]