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Conky is a highly customizable system monitor for X Window System, that displays any information on your desktop in a very interactive manner. The light weight app is difficult to customize, the reason why many linux users don’t give it a try, especially the beginner’s. It can be installed manually as well as from the [...]

Skype is one of the popular, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application that lets you make calls from one skype user to another skype user over the internet, free of cost! Apart from free calling, people use it as an instant messenger to converse with friends and for video calling purpose. It is a cross-platform [...]

Songbird is probably one of the best open source software and cross platform media players available. Calling it the iTunes for Ubuntu, would probably be the simplest answer to describe its importance. But, the disheartening announcement came from Songbird’s staff that, they are giving a halt to their support for Linux.

For a beginner, it may seem little weird that one can update his/her status on a social website using command line (terminal) but, it is quite easy as well. It is quiet useful when you are dealing with slow connection. Commands really drive me crazy. And i have noticed, most of us think that commands are bound to certain limits but that isnt the reality. You can do a lot of Geeky stuff, that you might have never thought about, by simply using your terminal.

LAMP is the acronym for Linux Apache MySql Php,Python,Perl.
To setup a web server and to run a website on a system(localhost) you have setup LAMP or WAMP first. This is a simple guide for running a website on localhost by setting LAMP on Linux machine. I used Ubuntu 8.1 (desktop edition) for this purpose.

.chm file format is a microsoft proprietary file format that is basically designed for the help files deployment. It is considered as a handy file format. Open and Convert .chm to .pdf file format, a more stable one.