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Linux Open Source

KNemo – Monitor your Internet usage…

KNemo is a Network monitoring program for Linux. The program stores information wrt the amount of data communicated thru your various LAN connections and also provides a way to automatically disable the internet on certain conditions. KNemo is a simple addon program to your network management enabling you to control your internet usage. It also […]

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Linux Media Open Source

Managing Collections with Tellico

Image by *Luana* via Flickr Tellico is a versatile collection manager for Linux. The KDE based application is designed to handle almost any type of perceivable collection and convert it to a easily manageable solution. If you have a huge collection of movies, music, books, comics ect and regularly lend them out, Tellico is the […]

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Open Source Web

Threaded Comments in WordPress

Image via Wikipedia WordPress has a builtin feature of allowing threaded comments for your posts. This feature is by default disabled and has to be “enabled”… Here is how to do that: Login to your WordPress install as Admin(or a user with Admin permissions). Navigate to the “Settings” menu and the “Discussions” option in that […]

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Hardware Open Source Solutions Ubuntu

Playing DVDs in Ubuntu

Image via Wikipedia Ubuntu by default does not play encrypted DVDs. This is because most commercial DVDs are encrypted with CSS (Content Scrambling System), which restricts the software that can play a DVD. To enable you must install the libdvdcss2 package to allow Ubuntu to play DVDs. For that you need to run the following […]

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Open Source Solutions Web

Firefox: Spell Check Single Line Fields

Image via Wikipedia Firefox by default spell checks text fields, it has the built in ability to spell check single line fields(search bars ect) but that is disabled by default. To activate the ability of firefox to spell check single line fields, do the following: Bring up your about:config page. You can do this by […]